Unite for Sight Volunteer Opportunities
Currently accepting applications for January 2008 through December 2008. Rolling application deadline - the first qualified applicants are accepted.
Volunteer Abroad With Unite For Sight in fall, winter, spring, and summer
Make A Difference!
Those who are blind in Africa have a four times higher mortality rate
60-80% of children who become blind die within 1-2 years
80% of blindness is curable or preventable
How Do I Apply? For the application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight’s international opportunities click on the link.
What is Unite For Sight’s Mission?
Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight’s work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008
What Do Volunteers Do?
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. Visiting volunteers from North America range from undergraduate and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds
Who Is Eligible to Participate?
The Unite For Sight internship is open to individuals 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, educators, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
