If you are skilled in agriculture, medical fields , or appropriate technology we need you. We are learning, but mainly we see ourselves as a conduit for resources in the States to hook up with needs here. If you are not skilled but have a desire to volunteer we can use you, too. Medical volunteers help us learn more and also see patients. We can use nurses, PA's, doctors, public health trainers.
Professionals come with health brigades and hold free clinics and help.
They also teach and train our doctor and nurse. In 1999 we had eight different medical groups who came down and held free consults in both rural and urban areas. Volunteers saw about a thousand patients mostly within Nueva Vida. One brigade was so moved by the need they committed to raising funds to build a permanent health clinic in Nueva Vida. Volunteer opportunities in the US are a little more limited for us.