It is a vital for addressing critical nursing care needs in low resource countries. We tackle challenges of limited access to nursing care, inadequate resources, healthcare personnel and high burden of tropical diseases.

Through our program volunteers play crucial role in supplementing local healthcare efforts, providing much needed support and gaining invaluable experience while helping. Medical care is a basic human right, and making it accessible for all is essential.

Volunteers will primarily work in our collaborated hospital and clinic to fulfill the needs for more hands towards providing health services depend with the level.

Working on our health projects offers a wonderful opportunity for volunteers to become familiar with the challenges and health issues of developing countries and low resource facilities. All our hospitals and clinics are government approved. 

The work environment is way different from the one you are used to work at home. You need to be open minded and able to deal with the poor health care options that are given. The hospital is located in the city of  Dar es salaam, 20 minutes from volunteer house. 

This project is open to everyone with Nursing care interests or nursing background and who wants to help make a difference in the lives of underprivileged people in Africa in the field of medical.

Available departments:

We have a number of departments who would appreciate your help. you can choose to combine different departments at the same time. You will be working with supervisor nurse who will give you full orientation to familiarize with given department and roles to help.

• General medical ward ( internal medicine)
• Emergency and accident department
  
• General surgery department (ENT,orthopedics)
  
• Maternity and midwifery department( labor & delivery)
• ICU department 
  
• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 
• pediatric department

Volunteer work:

This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in your field in a different culture where practices is different  to what you're used to at home. We have a variety of Medical placements available in Tanzania. You can work in a variety of difference medical departments, where you can either assist or shadow the staff members. The type of work you will be allocated will depend to an extent on your own abilities and capabilities, which is understandable given that you will be dealing with patient health and safety. It range from teaching/training for nurse students to hands on experience.

You will be involved in the day-to-day running of hospitals directly assisting the doctors and nurses. If you are planning to specialize in a particular field of medicine in your studies, we can arrange to place you in a relevant department to ensure that we benefit from your knowledge in your field of study and you also learning from our local professionals. This project is open to anyone who wants to help improve the lives of the Tanzanian people and passionate in nursing career.

Your roles may  include some of the following 

• wound dressings under direct supervision of nursing staff
• Teaching other nursing students in hospital 
• Assisting doctors in procedures such as blood collection
• Recording vital signs including blood pressure, pulse, and temperature measurements (if competent)
• Supporting patients with mobility between service points
• Providing general assistance to medical staff as needed and as expertise allows
• Performing tasks such as weighing patients and
• Assisting with infant/adult weighing
• Observing procedures, 
• Helping ward activities 
• taking care of patients arriving for out-patient care or on admission 
• Changing bandages and monitoring recovery,

What to expect:

The health facilities is different from home country this will open your mind and perspective about healthcare in developing countries. Our organization also run healthcare outreach programs. Where we visit local communities to provide free health services to the underserved communities. We provide health education, basic prevention of non communicable disease like Diabetes, hypertension and malaria also encourage them about health seeking behaviors. This offer a wonderful opportunity for volunteers and students to be acquainted with the existing community health issues and challenges of delivering health care in developing country like Tanzania. Volunteer has to come with his or her scrub and tools to use in hospital.