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From: Unite For Sight
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:53 PM
Subject: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity
To: joya (at) youthaidscoalition.org
Dear Friend of Unite For Sight,
We very much hope to have an opportunity to work with you in our
Global Impact Corps Volunteer Abroad Program in Ghana, Honduras, or
India. Please find complete details about our unique volunteer abroad
opportunity below, and please feel free to forward this message to
others who may be interested in participating.
Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
Join Unite For Sights Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive
global health experience. A transformative volunteer abroad
experience for students and professionals, Unite For Sight is renowned
as the highest quality global health immersion and volunteer abroad
program worldwide. Unite For Sight prides itself on offering the best
global health experience for our volunteers, coupled with the highest
quality healthcare delivery programs with our partners.
What do Unite For Sight volunteers do? Our Global Impact Corps
volunteers come from very diverse backgrounds, including those
interested in public health, medicine, international development,
social entrepreneurship, and the social sciences. They work with
local doctors to eliminate patient barriers to care for patients
living in extreme poverty. They assist with patient education, visual
acuity screening, patient intake, distributing the glasses and
medication prescribed by the local eye doctors, and other important
support tasks. They also have the opportunity to observe the
surgeries provided by the local doctors. Additionally, volunteers may
participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for those
interested in pursuing global health research. For example, we
currently have volunteers pursuing research studies about medication
management, the use of visual resources for patient education,
traditional medicine practices, and patient barriers to care.
What do volunteers say? "I gained a vast basin of knowledge not only
about eye health, but also on the healthcare infrastructure, patient
interactions, and management systems of the developing world. Reading
about health issues in the news or in class became stark reality
during my summer in Dhenkanal, and I now aim to reinvigorate my
efforts to study and contribute to the field of international health."
Pallavi Basu, Global Impact Fellow. See more volunteer accounts at
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-accounts
Locations of Year-Round Programs:
(volunteer for 7 days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10
weeks, or more)
Ghana Program
Tegucigalpa, Honduras Program
Patna, India Program
Dhenkanal, India Program
Click here to read more details and apply now!
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
This e-mail was sent to joya (at) youthaidscoalition.org by Unite For Sight.
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Joya Banerjee, MS
Global Health Fellow- Gender Specialist
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)12 424 9000 ext. 9048
Mobile: +27 (0)82 309 4982
Email: BanerjeeJ (at) sa.cdc.gov
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