Health Care Volunteer Project in Peru

  Peru

• Cusco: 
Cusco

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, all year.

Description: The medical centers in Peru need medical professionals. As a Peru volunteer doctor, nurse or a medical student, you will work alongside Peruvian doctors, nurses, therapists, and other medical professionals in local medical centers in rural and urban areas. You will help develop and facilitate vaccination and public health campaigns. To volunteer in this health project, your background must reflect medical qualifications.

It is helpful for the volunteers to learn some Spanish language, so our Peru volunteer project also tailors one to two weeks Language and Cultural Immersion Program to learn language basics and about Peruvian lifestyle and culture. The LAC is offered in the first weeks after arrival, prior to the start of your volunteer project. The LAC is optional, as an addition to your volunteer project, and includes guided excursions to local villages, markets, or other places of interest.

Highlights: Peru has a diverse geography; arid sun strong coasts, the chilled and rainy Sierras, and the humid, dense jungle. Ancient pre Incan cultures left their mark all over the country with impressive artifact and ruins that add a sense of awe to the traveler's itinerary.

Qualifications: Volunteers for the Health Care Project need to have a combination of Health Industry experience and medical education. We also accept med. Students and long-term hospital volunteers as well as military or otherwise trained medics.

Cost in US$: Starts USD849

What does one week cultural immersion program fee cover?
Language and cultural courses
Food and accommodations for 7 days
Training materials: books, paper, orientation package, TV, video, trainer, etc.
Local sightseeing/tourist site arrangements
Recreational activities
Village stay/host family
Cultural programs and additional activities
Travel related expenses (one week orientation)
Insurance

What does two weeks Spanish language program fee cover?
Four hours of daily Spanish instruction
Workbook of exercises
Lodging with a Costa Rican family
Two meals a day - Breakfast and Dinner

What Spanish language program fee does not cover?
Lunch
Any traveling part

What program fee does not cover?
Airfare, Visa and Visa extension fee
Transfer to airport, airport taxes
Any personal expenses
Mineral water and soft drinks
Gifts to project staffs and host family
Laundry, Telephone, Immunization

Salary / Pay: Volunteer Job

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 18 or above

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Peru Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Institute For Field Research Expeditions's Mission Statement: The mission of our volunteer abroad program is to offer meaningful volunteer abroad opportunities for volunteers and to seek sustainable solutions for education, health, conservation, and development issues through international volunteering. We hope to achieve this goal by offering community orientated volunteer programs where the efforts of our volunteers go directly to the poor people and their communities. Many grass-root organizations working in developing countries are poor in resources. These organizations are doing a commendable job to address development, education, health, and conservation issues by launching a variety of programs but these organizations are in a great need of help and support. IFRE promotes these local organizations by making donations and sending volunteers.

Year Founded: 2005