Elective Medical Placement at Refugee Camp
Highlights
- Volunteers gain a wide international medical experience working with various health professionals
- Volunteers can work in different departments base on their interest
- Learn skills and methodologies from professionals using local improvise methods and medical tools and equipment
- Earn a certificate and reference letter for your professional or academic pursuit.
- Visit any of the 16 regions in Ghana on weekends to immerse yourself in the Ghanaian culture and history
- Volunteers gain a wide international medical experience working with various health professionals
- Volunteers can work in different departments base on their interest
- Learn skills and methodologies from professionals using local improvise methods and medical tools and equipment
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About the program
Volunteers work at the Budumburam refugee camp to shadow and assist health professions. This is an internship program that can earn volunteers with school credit.
The Budumburam refugee camp is the home of the refugees of the Liberian civil war over 20 years ago. The people live in a very deplorable condition. The place is a slum with a lot of filth which makes the people fall sick a lot. A hospital has been built inside the amp to give medical care to the ...
Typical day
Volunteers working at the hospital have varied schedule, volunteers either go on day shift, afternoon or night shift depending on their preference and also base on the hospital needs too. A normal schedule is as follows:
- 7:00am Breakfast
- 7:30am walk or a ride to placement
- 8:00am Instructions on ...
Free-time activities
Volunteers have the weekend to explore the 16 regions of Ghana. Each region has its unique culture and tourist sites. Volunteers are advice to read more about Ghana's tourist sites to help them have a fair idea of where their interest will be.
We help volunteers to choose tourist sites and give ...
Requirements
What's Included
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Details on arrival
Volunteers are free to arrive at any day of their choice but we advice volunteers arrive on Fridays or Saturdays, for them to have some rest and settle in before volunteer duties start on Monday (Volunteers are also allowed to determine when they want to start upon arrival). Volunteers can arrive at any time of the day but arriving in the evenings means volunteer will have to spend long time at the airport due to long queue because most flights arrive in the evening. Therefore volunteers can look for flights that arrives mid morning or early afternoon.
Our representative will pick up volunteer to the his /her host family's accommodation.
This program is all year round and volunteer can extend length of stay upon arrival.
Program fees
Meet your organization
SFLIG volunteers
Non-profit - founded in 2011
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Coordinated by
Sally
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