You want to become better as a person and a specialist? Live and work in a place that you will tell your grandchildren about? You want to help people, watch sunsets in a beautiful forest or enjoy the sound of waves? Get yourself on our team!
Country:
Guatemala ,
Nicaragua
Program duration:
1-3 months
Key advantages of this program are
- new professional knowledge and skills
- experience exchange with specialists from different countries
- work with an international team
- improve your language skills
- access to a large network of volunteers and professionals
- vacation in the most stunning parts of Central America
- extensive cultural immersion
- surfing in the ocean or jogging through mountain forests
- make tons of new friends
We will
provide
- travel assistance
- language courses with a tutor
- free accommodation at the clinic
- vegetarian hot meals
- vacation every 2 months
- paid flights after one year of service
- a certificate of participation in the volunteer programme
- letters of recommendation and gratitude to outstanding participants
Terms and responsibilities:
- Strict compliance with project rules;
- Flexible working hours at the clinic. Readiness to work in the evenings and on the weekends according to the schedule;
- Prepare, organize and hold educational conferences for the local population on:
- Gastritis prevention (for all people)
- Contraception (for adolescents and women)
- Pregnancy hygiene (for pregnant women)
- Good nutrition (for all people)
- Starving children (for mothers of young and malnourished children)
- Environmental care (for children and adolescents)
- Individual conversations with different patients;
- Creation of information materials – visual posters on different topics for schools, churches and clinics in the region;
- Selection of educational films and cartoons for children;
- Conducting activities aimed at developing and teaching children about hygiene, good nutrition, ecology, etc;
- Conducting social activities with the local population;
- Collecting statistics on patient morbidity and conducting patient interviews.
Candidate requirements:
- Age 18+
- Spanish language level B1 minimum (we provide tutoring!);
- Willingness to speak Spanish
- Experience in a similar position in a public health organization is an advantage;
- Transport a minimum of 15 kilos of humanitarian aid in your personal luggage;
- Ability to drive with a manual transmission;
- Readiness to live and work far away from major cities, with poor internet connection, in a small, rural clinic with a multinational team;
- Support core Health & Help values and mission.