Medical volunteers

This medical volunteer program is located in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. This program is ideal for medical students, doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacist, midwives, and other medical related individuals.

We are a non-profit medical social organization, working among the poor, less fortunate and marginalized hill-tribe people in the hills.

We move from village to village as we give free medical treatments, building toilets, building clean water supply system and doing many other social activities to improve the lives of these less fortunate and marginalized human beings in the region. In each village we stay with the host hilltribe family and eat with them. Please visit our website for more information.

http://www.wtind.org

Way of Volunteer:

As a medical volunteer you will be working at the rural village's clinics where all types of patients come to check their health. They are poor and deprived, can not access to local health care centers due to the poverty, lacks of transportation, lack of citizenship or national ID and superstition thinking etc. In these village clinics you have to assist Dr. David in the treatment of patients. Also, you will participate in such program such as vaccinating, giving injections IV, I M, checking patients, consulting to patients, nutrition, or treatment of minor injuries. Volunteers also may take a part in health camp, mobile clinic, visiting door-to-door program.

We are working in one particular region or area in Chiang Rai sub-district and it is hilly region and is quite far from the city. There are about 50 hill-tribe villages in the region. We move around from village to village as we give free medical treatment in a bamboo hut clinic that we set up in each village and we normally stay 2-3 days. Most of the time, we move on foot, trekking from village to village on the hills, plain and in the valley as villages locate in different places. The distance between the villages is 2-10 kilometers. We do the following things as we move around:

1. Setting up a bamboo clinic in each village, giving free medical treatments

2. Giving assistance to Dr. David in his daily medical social work

3. Teaching first aid and health educations to the villagers

4. Teaching languages, computers and other subjects to the hill-tribes

5. Building toilets, water supply system, classrooms, dining halls, bridges and other necessary things

6. Playing games with hill-tribes and clean the villages to be a better place

7. And many other programs that we like to do in order to build a better place for the poor and unprivileged hill-tribes

Place of volunteer: 50-100 kilometers away villages in the hills

Duration of volunteer: Minimum 1 week – 1 year

Time of volunteer: Any time of the year

Way of transportation: Most of the time we move on foot and sometimes we get a truck. Once a week we come back to our base to get more supplies. Our base is on the way to town and it is 15 kilometers away from town.

How to Volunteer: It is essential that you go through the entire website thoroughly before applying. This is to make sure you are the right volunteer and the kind of work you will be doing. You will have to fill up our online application if you are interested to volunteer with us after going through the website. And then please kindly send us your registration fee 100 US$ to confirm your placement with us. We will contact you with more information. There may be a slight delay in our correspondence as we are out in the hills for a week at a time.

We have got two volunteer options below. The choice is absolutely yours whether you like to "volunteer for free" or "pay to volunteer". The "volunteer for free" consist of some fundraising effort. But it is indeed a great effort for the poor and less fortunate human beings in this part of the world.

Please take a note that funding a project of any kind

Pay to volunteer program

Please check the volunteer's weekly expenses below:

Duration of volunteer Volunteer's weekly expense

1 week - 200 US$ + funding a project of any kind

2 weeks - 400 US$ + funding a project of any kind

3 weeks - 600 US$ + funding a project of any kind

4 weeks - 800 US$ + funding a project of any kind

Volunteer for free program

If you want to get involved in this program we will send you a fundraising kits along with two donation receipt books to collect donations from your friends, relatives, families and the people you know for the less fortunate and marginalized hill-tribe human beings whom you are coming to help. You shall do this before you come to volunteer with us.

The simple rule and regulation here is that you raise funds or collect donations 3 times more than your weekly volunteer expense( 200 US$ ). If you could collect 3 times more than your weekly volunteer expense, you shall volunteer for free. But if you could collect only 2 times more than your weekly volunteer expense, you shall pay half to volunteer.

Duration and weekly expense Donations collected by volunteer

1 week - 200 US$ - 600 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free - 400 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half

2 weeks - 400 US$ - 1200 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free - 800 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half

3 weeks - 550 US$ - 1650 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free - 1100 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half

4 weeks - 750 US$ - 2250 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free - 1500 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half

If this is the kind of volunteer program you are looking for please kindly fill up the online application form and send it to us along with your registration fee, 100 US$.

The registration or application fee,100 US$, covers administration, communication, confirmation, pick up from the airport or bus station to our base and your internet access at our base as a volunteer.