Ecuador Volunteer Work: Health Care / Nursing Volunteer Work in Ecuador

  Ecuador

• Quito: 
Quito
• Galapagos Islands: 
Galapagos Islands
• All Other Regions of Ecuador: 
Guayaquil,  Ibarra,  Santo Domingo de los Colorados,  Ambato,  Latacunga,  Pichincha,  Bahia de Caraquez,  Otavalo,  Puerto Baquerizo Moreno,  San Cristobal,  Puerto Lopez,  Rural Areas

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks

Description: Our health/nursing programs welcome anyone thinking of taking up nursing or alternative health. By working on this program, you will make a real contribution in hospitals, clinics and NGO's. Your help is needed throughout Ecuador to help the Ecuadorian population in the poorest urban or rural areas. Our host medical centres and patients welcome medical students, specialist, nurses, etc. The key requirements in our health/nursing volunteer programs are initiative, enthusiasm and readiness to work in unfamiliar circumstances in certain cases.

Description of the work

Volunteers will collaborate in the health education, basic prevention, nutrition, and sanitation areas in order to help preventing certain diseases, taking care of patients reporting or on admission, distributing foods, weighing babies, taking blood pressure.

For those interested in working within a particular medical field will collaborate in areas such as pediatrics, gynecology, intern medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, rehabilitation and ophthalmology, among others, helping with first aid treatment, observing the expert in diagnosing a patient, recommending treatment, performing minor or major surgeries (for professional volunteers).

Program Details
- Location of Placement: Quito, Otavalo, Latacunga, Cuenca, Galapagos, Puerto Lopez, Bahía de Caraquez, Guayaquil, Salinas
- Minimum and maximum commitment: 2 weeks to 24 weeks
- Minimum Spanish level: Intermediate
- Experience: Related previous experience would be helpful but not mandatory
- Program dates: All year-round
- Deadline: At least 2 weeks before start date
- Admission Requirements: Application form, resume and letter of intent
- Work Schedule: Full time or part time
- Age: 18 or more years of age
- Housing and Board: Homestay with an Ecuadorian family (a single room + 3 daily meals)

Highlights:
- You will be proud of yourself for doing something very positive in your own means to change the life of someone.
- You will discover more about yourself which will definitely help you in making many vital decisions.
- You will experience a true and pure culture of a different kind in this same world.
- Another opportunity to find a lifetime friend very far away from home and with a different perspective of life.

Experience Required: no

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 Ecuador Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

ELEP - Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Programs's Mission Statement: Our mission is to promote international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between Ecuador (Latin-American) and the rest of the world, to help people to gain hands-on practical experience, acquire knowledge and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world, accomplishing these goals through our Volunteer, Internship and Spanish Study Programs. Therefore, ELEP's commitment is to contribute to intercultural and learning experience opportunities and development of the people, companies, organizations and communities through our programs

Year Founded: 1999