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From: Jennifer Staple <Jennifer.Staple@...>
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:37 AM
Subject: [amsa_sfsu] High Impact Volunteering Abroad
To: amsa_sfsu@yahoogroups.com


Please forward widely. Accepting applications for 2008 and 2009:
Ghana, Honduras, and India.

Unite For Sight's High Impact Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As
Featured Weekly On CNN International and Recently in The New York
Times

Volunteer Abroad in all, Winter, Spring, or Summer:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Ghana, Honduras, India

Volunteers Are Part Of Global Problem Solving And Have The Thrill Of
Experiencing and Contributing To Change on the Highest Level. With The
Assistance of Volunteers Like You, Unite For Sight Has Restored Sight
To 15,958 Patients and Provided Eye Care to 600,000

How Do I Apply? The application as well as complete details about
Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available at
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Who Is Eligible To Volunteer Abroad?: Volunteers are 18 years and
older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from
undergraduate/college students to medical and optometry students,
public health students and professionals, business students,
filmmakers and photographers, nurses and nursing students, social
workers, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, opticians,
optometrists an! d ophtha lmologists.

Unite For Sight welcomes volunteers who may not have previous health
or eye care experience. Volunteers receive all necessary training from
Unite For Sight so that they are able to assist eye doctors with
community eye outreach programs. Unite For Sight also welcomes
volunteers to participate as photographers and filmmakers.

What Do Volunteers Do?:

*Hands-On Clinical Service: Assist eye doctors in rural villages,
refugee camps, and slums in Ghana, India, and Honduras

*Community-Based Outreach Programs: Local eye doctors and Unite For
Sight volunteers work together to provide eye care for patients living
in extreme poverty

*Effective and Sustainable: Volunteers are immersed in effective,
sustainable international health and development programs

*See Results: Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces
when their sight is restored after years of blindness.

*Entrepreneurial Volunteering: Volunteers are encouraged to be
proactive and entrepreneurial to develop their own projects and
programs that dovetail with Unite For Sight's outreach programs

What Do Volunteers Say?: Hundreds of volunteer narratives, volunteer
diaries, as well as videos of alumni volunteers and partner eye
doctors, are available on the Unite For Sight website:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

You may also be interested in the Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global
Health Conference at Yale http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference Join
2,500 conference participants and more than 200 featured speakers for
a weekend conference about global health, international development,
social entrepreneurship, and public health. Keynote addresses by Dr.
Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold
Varmus. Register today to secure the lowest rate.