Volunteer at a Health Care Center, Antigua, Guatemala
You are the one who can assure these children to have the chance to grow up safe and healthy.
This volunteer project is carried out at a health care center that comes from a dream of an Italian couple, to provide assistance to those most in need and to promote the concept of community health from prevention and primary health care.
This Italian couple began to make their dream real in 1983 when they established the first Health Center in Burundi, Africa. From that time they did not stop, they continued adding people able to help in the project and they have achieved recognition around the world. The organization that this couple founded, currently has 8 health care centers distributed in Burundi, Tanzania and Guatemala.
This organization not only provides medical assistance to those most in need, but also includes educational projects for children from 4 to 12 years old, in which volunteers are also welcome to participate. In Guatemala, the projects are carried out in Antigua and Yepocapa, where you can contribute with your knowledge and iniciative in order to assist all people in the community who come daily to the center.
Join this project and make the difference!
Due to the current need in the health sector, the services provided by the center are diverse like medicine, dermatology, gynecology, diabetology, dentistry, etc. Including health education and prevention.
This international organization host volunteers from different countries, that makes this project an excellent opportunity to learn about other cultures, new languages and make friends. All of them like you believe that a better world is possible.
The warmth, persistence and initiative of volunteers who every day make the health center go forward, are reasons enough to believe that our contribution even it is not so much, can improve the lives of many people and even a community. You can be part of this challenge! Sign up!
This volunteer project is not available from November to January.
Accommodation
Families & Homestays
Our families know, due to their experience, what it means to be a real host. They have received many students from different nationalities, occupations and ages. We will take into consideration your likes and preferences. Living with a local family is the best way to learn their customs, likes, and style while you learn a new language.
Residences & Hostels
If you want to live with several local and foreign students, you can choose to stay in a private or shared room in any of the students' residencies we offer you. Sharing a place with young people from all over the world is a great opportunity to learn about different cultures and make new friends as well as learning about the place in which you are studying.
Requirements
Usual Volunteer Tasks
*Latin American students applying for Volunteers in Spain must have a valid EU passport.
- Over 18 years old
- High school degree
- Health insurance, accident and liability
- Commitment to the Host Organization,its rules and tasks
- Have skills to work with ill people
- Preferently Studentsor health professionals
- Be creative and have social skills
- Be motivated, patient, resourceful and willing to join in a wide range of activities
- Be motivated, patient, resourceful and willing to join in a wide range of activities
- Be a committed and responsible person willing to help
- Have skills to organize recreation events
- Enthusiastic spirit and lots of energy
- An intermediate Spanish level is recommended
- Fulfill with all legal and formal requirements for your Volunteer*
- To care and assistance ill people
- To participate in diverse prevention campaigns
- To assist on rehabilitation activities
- To get involved with the implications and treatments of different diseases
- Working in team to promote healtly behaviors in the community.
- Assisting the staff and other volunteers on routine duties
- To get involved with the implications and treatments of different disease
The tasks named above will be arranged with every volunteer according to each one’s skills and special abilities.
Project Hightlights
- Participate in this Health Center providing medical assistance for those most in need
- Help an organization that is in the need of volunteer work to continue providing its services to the community
- Contribute with your knowledge and initiative in order to improve and promote the community health conditions
- Work with an international volunteer team that transcends languages and cultural borders for a common good
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