Country: Honduras

Length of Trip: 2 Weeks

Trips per Year to Latin America: 4

Cost: $1,200

Urban/Rural: Rural

Type of Volunteer: Physician/mid-level provider, Nurse

Type of Organization: Secular NGO

Type of Clinic: Mobile or Informal Clinic

Description:

Each year we send three teams of medical providers to Honduras to give rural and impoverished communities access to basic health care.

We set up day clinics in rural schoolhouses and work alongside our Honduran partners to:

Provide basic health exams for up to 5 thousand people annually, and provide referrals and funds to help with follow-up care for approximately 150 of our more seriously ill patients

Conduct approximately 300 women’s health consults and cervical cancer screenings distribute hundreds of thousands of vitamins, and hundreds of pairs of reading glasses

Provide referrals and leave funds to help give our more critical patients access to further exams and treatment

Organizational Base: Missoula, Montana

Other Programs: Women's health, cervical cancer screening, child nutrition and early stimulation, dental care, vision care, surgical care, community health programs, model farm programs, construction of ecological coffee processing stations

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