Volunteers Needed: Health and Wellness in Argentina

  Argentina

• Buenos Aires: 
Buenos Aires

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months and 1-2 years
Dates: See website for dates

Description: Work toward improving the health and quality of life of Argentina's underprivileged population when you volunteer with our Public Health Program in Buenos Aires. As a volunteer with our Health and Wellness Program, you will work directly with poor Argentineans living in the slums of Buenos Aires. Most of them have neither access to health care nor knowledge about basic health issues and sanitary practices. This is a hands-on program where volunteers work with men, women and youth of various age groups to educate them on how to improve and maintain their health and that of their children.

Volunteers with our Health and Wellness Program will plan and give informative talks and presentations on such topics as AIDS prevention, birth control, personal hygiene, nutrition, sanitary food preparation, obesity, pregnancy, and more. Your work with this program will have a direct impact on the quality of life of many Argentineans as well as on generations to come.

Highlights:
As a volunteer you will:
* Give talks on various health issues for children, teens, adults, seniors, and pregnant women (including teens)
* Teach youth about the importance of condom use for birth control and disease prevention
* Distribute medical supplies to needy families
* Run a blood pressure/weight screening booth
* Write and produce informative flyers
* Teach an exercise class (aerobics, stretching, yoga, dance, etc.) to overweight women   
* Organize and lead a walking club
* Fundraise and collect donations of medical supplies and health-food products
* Help community centers come up with first-aid kits
* Develop special workshops (strengthening bones, nutrition for pregnant women, diabetes control, etc.)

Qualifications:
* Must be at least 18 years old
* High-intermediate level of Spanish or better
* Appropriate knowledge of health issues
* An outgoing and caring personality

Cost in US$: See website

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Volunteer Adventures makes it easy to live your dream of volunteering. Anyone can volunteer, as long as you have the desire to help others and an open mind.

Age Range: 18 and older

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Argentina Independently

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