Join Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive and unique 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 local doctor partners.
Unite For Sight is the only organization in the world that:
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is a healthcare delivery organization that also
offers immersive global health education opportunities for students and professionals;
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uses 100% of all donations and funds submitted to directly
provide care for patients who are otherwise unable to access or afford care;
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directly teaches the
importance of supporting and assisting local professionals in their own social ventures to eliminate disparities in their communities and countries;
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offers an opportunity to
learn from local medical professionals about effective strategies to reach the hardest-to-reach patients in villages, slums, and refugee camps;
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develops comprehensive training materials in
cultural competency, ethics, and global health best practices to prepare its volunteers
for a high-impact immersive experience.
Locations of Year-Round Health Care Delivery: Ghana,
Honduras, and India
(volunteer for 7 days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)
What do Unite For Sight volunteers do?
Unite For Sight’s Volunteer Abroad Program is an immersive global health
experience for students and professionals who are interested in public
health, international development, medicine, or social
entrepreneurship. Volunteers participate with and learn from
Unite For Sight's talented local partner doctors who have provided care
to nearly 1.7 million patients living in poverty, including more than
75,000 sight-restoring surgeries. Volunteers assist with patient
education, visual acuity testing, 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
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 eye care.
"Working
with Unite For Sight at Kalinga Eye Hospital and Research Centre gave
me the best possible opportunity to really learn what it means to work
in global health at a ground
level. My experience working with Unite For Sight has been a source of
inspiration for me, cementing my decision to pursue a career in global
health, and driving me to continue to actively contribute to the cause
by reminding me that there’s so much that
each of us can do at any point in our lives to help out."--Uttara Partap.
“Unite
For Sight’s international voluntary program is one that allows
passionate young adults to see the reality of international development,
and to open their minds to the possibility
of serving the underprivileged while providing them the opportunity to
support quality eye care in areas that need their contributions."—Sueyan Yuen.
Complete Global Impact Corps details are available online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
