Health

Countries: India
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteers on our Projects Abroad Medical placement in India will gain a great deal of valuable work-experience alongside some of the most skilled and inspirational doctors in the country. You will find yourself coming into contact with conditions that you wouldn't normally see in the developed world.

Countries: India
Duration: from 1 Months to 5 Months

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 4 Weeks

Volunteers on our Projects Abroad Medical placement in Kenya will gain a great deal of valuable work-experience alongside some of the most skilled doctors in the country. You will find yourself coming into contact with conditions that you wouldn't normally see in the developed world.

Countries: Cambodia
Duration: from 1 Months to 6 Months

Countries: India
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: Japan
Duration: from 6 Months

Medical placements involve helping at Red Cross Hospitals and provide excellent experience for anyone hoping to work in medicine or health related fields. The work is varied as volunteers will work in a variety of wards helping with many different tasks. Japanese lessons will be provided at the hospitals and volunteers may be asked to teach English to the nursing staff. The more Japanese you know, the more responsible the tasks you may be given. The role of a medical volunteer in Japan is exciting and interesting and offers the volunteer a real insight into both medical care and Japanese culture. All applicants are matched to placements to ensure that there is a good fit between the volunteer and the hospital. Lattitude Global Volunteering is an international youth development charity that has been sending volunteers on challenging structured and exciting voluntary placements around the world for 40 years.

Countries: Vietnam
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

£75 discount for volunteers who combine more than one PoD project! Enrich the loves of children in rural Vietnam by twaching English, playing games and getting involved in daily life at the orphanage. Experience rural Vietnamese culture.

Countries: Ghana
Duration: from 1 Months to 6 Months

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 2 Weeks

In rural Kenya, around 70% of people are living below the poverty line and access to proper sanitation, clean drinking water, healthcare and an education are often limited or non-existent. Based from Camp Kenya’s original camp in the village of Makongeni, this trip gives those in the medical profession a chance to experience caring for people in a new and challenging environment.

Countries: Tanzania
Duration: from 1 Months to 6 Months

Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteering on a Medicine & Healthcare Project with Projects Abroad will provide you with an invaluable experience of the challenges faced by medical institutions in the developing world. The placements we provide are suitable for people of all levels of experience, across the fields of Medicine, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Midwifery, Dentistry, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy.

Countries: Tanzania
Duration: from 1 Months to 6 Months

Shape the future of a generous and happy community, while getting fantastic work experience in and around the bustling town of Arusha, Tanzania. Live like a local and take in the views of Mount Kili and Mount Meru right on your doorstep. Relax on the paradise island of Zanzibar and take a luxury safari in some of the world's very best game parks.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 to 12

When people think of Mombasa they think of sun, sea, glorious white sandy beaches, safaris and wild animals and what a wonderful time they will have, but if only that could be what the local people would think of. Instead the people of the area are facing one of the deadliest diseases of our time and are having to cope with the many effects of HIV/AIDS.

Duration: from 2 Weeks

Volunteers on our Projects Abroad Physiotherapy placement provide support to patients and staff in the developing world. As a volunteer your responsibilities will include assisting local physiotherapists in hospitals that are often poorly funded and understaffed. It is likely that the patients you see will have conditions that are fairly advanced and rarely seen in the developed world.

Countries: India
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months