[Ip-health] High Impact Volunteering Abroad

[Jennifer Staple]

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Please forward widely. Accepting applications for 2008 and 2009: Ghana, Hon=
duras, and India.

Unite For Sight's High Impact Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured W=
eekly On CNN International and Recently in The New York Times

Volunteer Abroad in all, Winter, Spring, or Summer: http://www.uniteforsigh=
t.org/volunteer-abroad

Ghana, Honduras, India


Volunteers Are Part Of Global Problem Solving And Have The Thrill Of Experi=
encing and Contributing To Change on the Highest Level. With The Assistance=
 of Volunteers Like You, Unite For Sight Has Restored Sight To 15,958 Patie=
nts and Provided Eye Care to 600,000

How Do I Apply? The application as well as complete details about Unite For=
 Sight's international opportunities are available at http://www.uniteforsi=
ght.org/volunteer-abroad

Who Is Eligible To Volunteer Abroad?: Volunteers are 18 years and older, an=
d there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate/college =
students to medical and optometry students, public health students and prof=
essionals, business students, filmmakers and photographers, nurses and nurs=
ing students, social workers, physician's assistants, teachers and educator=
s, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.

Unite For Sight welcomes volunteers who may not have previous health or eye=
 care experience. Volunteers receive all necessary training from Unite For =
Sight so that they are able to assist eye doctors with community eye outrea=
ch programs. Unite For Sight also welcomes volunteers to participate as pho=
tographers and filmmakers.

What Do Volunteers Do?:

*Hands-On Clinical Service: Assist eye doctors in rural villages, refugee c=
amps, and slums in Ghana, India, and Honduras

*Community-Based Outreach Programs: Local eye doctors and Unite For Sight v=
olunteers work together to provide eye care for patients living in extreme =
poverty

*Effective and Sustainable: Volunteers are immersed in effective, sustainab=
le international health and development programs

*See Results: Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when th=
eir sight is restored after years of blindness.

*Entrepreneurial Volunteering: Volunteers are encouraged to be proactive an=
d entrepreneurial to develop their own projects and programs that dovetail =
with Unite For Sight's outreach programs

What Do Volunteers Say?: Hundreds of volunteer narratives, volunteer diarie=
s, as well as videos of alumni volunteers and partner eye doctors, are avai=
lable on the Unite For Sight website: http://www.uniteforsight.org/voluntee=
r-abroad

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