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Unite For Sight's Global Impact Corps is an immersive global health experience for students and for professionals. All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows.
What do Global Impact Fellows do? Global Impact Fellows are engaged as future leaders in global health. They assist local eye clinics to provide comprehensive year-round care in rural villages that addresses the root causes of patient barriers to care. While the local eye doctors focus on the examinations and diagnoses, the Unite For Sight Global Impact Fellows assist in all other aspects of the needed work: patient intake, patient histories, visual acuity screenings, distribution of medication and eyeglasses prescribed by the local eye doctors, patient education, and research studies. They also have the opportunity to observe the surgeries provided by the local doctors.
Through hands-on, structured training, Global Impact Fellows gain a comprehensive understanding about best practices in global health and social entrepreneurship. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health, and they receive a Certificate in Global Health & Program Delivery. Additionally, Global Impact Fellows may participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for those interested in pursuing global health research. For example, current Global Impact Fellows are pursuing research studies about medication management, the use of visual resources for patient education, traditional medicine practices, and patient barriers to care.
Who is eligible? Anyone from any country is eligible to apply. Unite For Sight Global Impact Fellows are 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Global Impact Fellows range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and public health professionals, nurses and nursing students, educators, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
Locations of Year-Round Eye Care Delivery:
(volunteer for 7 days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)
- Accra and Kumasi Regions, Ghana
- Tamale, Ghana
- Varying Rural Villages, Ghana
- Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Patna, India
- Chennai, India
- New Delhi, India
- Dhenkanal, India
Training and Immersion Impacts Alumni: "The unparalleled experience with Unite for Sight in Ghana provided me with a deeper understanding of how medicine and public health are inextricably linked. I hope to incorporate the tools and knowledge I garnered through this volunteer opportunity as a future healthcare provider." --Taygan Yilmaz, Global Impact Fellow in Ghana
Complete details online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad |
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