Job Description
Location:Coral Coast, Fiji Duration: 4-12 weeks
Cost : from 500 GBP per week
Fee Includes: all food, accommodation, pre-departure + in-country support, orientation and all project related activities
Does not Include: flights, travel insurance, personal spending, visas and vaccinations
Benefits - Health Challenges in Villages: Many Fijians, especially in rural areas, face health issues like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and skin infections due to limited knowledge of hygiene and diet.
- Healthcare Education Program: The initiative focuses on improving health through education on basic hygiene practices and providing medical checkups and health camps.
- Diverse Volunteer Roles: The program welcomes both medical professionals for conducting clinics and health camps, as well as volunteers interested in teaching simple hygiene techniques like handwashing and toothbrushing.
- Community Impact: Volunteers run healthcare campaigns in schools and villages near Sigatoka, aiming to instill essential hygiene habits and prevent avoidable health problems.
Please note: This opportunity is designed to give you the contacts and experience to help further your career. You are not replacing any member of staff, but helping alongside them, whilst learning new skills.
Simply click the APPLY Button to submit your application, and ask as many questions as you need.
Introduction The general health of average Fijians is quite good and robust as most of the youth are interested in sports and they begin their training at an early age. However, as they get older, especially women, tend to get obese after the birth of their children. Since most of the local populations live in the villages, they have little or no knowledge of hygiene and diet. This leads to a wide range of diseases like high blood sugar, cholesterol, hypertension etc. The other common diseases in the villages are skin eruptions/lesions, urinary infections, gum and heart diseases.
Our healthcare education initiative is in its infancy and requires the skills of both established medical and healthcare professionals and those who are interested in teaching basic first-aid and personal hygiene. This need for having project participants on either end of the medical spectrum arises due to the great extremes in hygiene and health practices. Apart from needing qualified professionals in order to conduct health camps and dental checkups, we also need participants who can educate people in the areas of basic first-aid and personal hygiene such as washing hands, brushing teeth and general cleanliness. This works towards the prevention of many avoidable health problems and easily communicable diseases.
If you are interested in educating simple hygiene techniques, you are welcome to join the Healthcare Education project. Medical professionals who can offer guidance on the projects development would be immensely valuable; however, it is not imperative that participants have a medical background to join. As a participant of this project, you can support to run healthcare campaigns in local schools/villages around Sigatoka, actively teach the importance of basic hygiene emphasize brushing teeth correctly, washing hands and general body cleanliness. Many of the daily routines that we carry out without thinking are not common practices with the children you will meet, but starting simple education early can go a long way for immediate and future healthcare. If you have a medical background, check-up clinics for local children and adults can be organized with your help.
Dont miss this life-changing chance to recalibrate your work-life balance, reconnect with your passions, and make a lasting impact in the lives of others. Join us on this unforgettable adventure and return home with newfound energy, focus, and a renewed sense of purpose in your career and personal life.
Daily Life During the first half of the day in the morning, a local doctor will meet you and explain to you all the various medical aspects as well as the medical needs of the local community. Later you will then be taken to the local government schools and take part in the awareness campaign, health and hygiene teaching to the children of various ages, first aid teaching and many more health and medical-related program will be conducted for the children every day.
Once a month, in alliance with the local team of doctors, a general health check-up camp will be organized by us for the benefit of villagers. Free medicines and treatment will be made available to all.
Please note: all information above is subject to change. Please check the most up to date information on the Global Nomadic website when applying. Simply follow the link on the Apply Button above.
Job Tags
Local area, Immediate start, Day shift,