Why join Health & Help?
In the communities where we work, medical care is often hours — sometimes days — away. When you volunteer with us, you help make healthcare accessible for people who would otherwise go without it.
Your role is clear: you provide medical care, share your expertise, and help strengthen a small clinic that serves a large community. You won’t be asked to step outside your professional scope — but you will likely do more of what brought you into medicine in the first place: listen, treat, teach, and build trust. If you want to focus on practicing medicine while gaining experience in a new cultural and clinical setting, this is a meaningful place to do it.
You’ll work directly with local patients, learn how healthcare functions in remote areas, and adapt your skills to a different reality — both medically and humanly.
You’ll be part of a collaborative, international team where patient-centered care guides the work. The setting is rural, the work is hands-on, and the results of your effort are visible every day.
Many volunteers choose to extend their stay or return because the work feels meaningful and the team feels like a place worth coming back to.
What you’ll do
- Provide direct patient care and consultations in the clinic and during community outreach
- Respond to local medical emergencies when needed
- Educate patients and families on health, prevention, and self-care
- Support daily clinic operations and help keep shared spaces welcoming for all
- Participate in medical documentation and required reporting
What’s Included
- Pre-departure guidance and full on-site orientation
- Free accommodation in the clinic
- Healthy vegetarian meals every day
- Certificate of participation
- Continuous support as you adapt to rural life, a new setting, and an international team
Who can join
- Age 21+
- Licensed medical professionals (MD, RN, PA, etc.)
- Comfortable diagnosing and treating common conditions in an outpatient setting
- Spanish level B1+ (or motivated to get there — we’ll help you prepare!)
- Adaptable to rural clinic life—limited internet, basic facilities, international team
- Shares our values and supports Health & Help’s mission of equal access to healthcare
Сontribution
We are an independent, nonprofit organization. To keep our clinics open and to ensure volunteers have a safe, comfortable, and well-equipped place to live and work, we ask each international volunteer to contribute $150 per week during their stay. This contribution covers the essential, ongoing costs of operating a clinic in a remote area, including:
- accommodation and daily meals
- water, electricity, internet, cooking gas
- local logistics and operational expenses
- medical supplies, medications, and other consumables
Because our clinics are located in remote areas, these costs are higher than usual, reflecting the challenges of logistics and daily operations.
Your contribution helps keep the clinic functioning not only during your stay, but for every patient who depends on it year-round.
By contributing, you support the project in two ways: through your medical work, and through helping sustain the infrastructure that makes that work possible.
Support for Local Volunteers
We are committed to long-term, community-based impact. For that reason, Health & Help fully covers the participation costs for volunteers from Guatemala and Nicaragua. Local medical professionals bring cultural knowledge, continuity of care, and long-term commitment to the communities we serve. By investing in their training and experience, we help strengthen healthcare from within — not only while international volunteers are present, but far into the future.