Volunteers
All HVO volunteers are trained, licensed health care professionals who are screened by similarly skilled program directors to ensure that their skills and expertise are appropriate to a particular site. Volunteers work alongside their colleagues in developing countries, providing new insights and techniques. They introduce new teaching methodologies, update or create teaching curricula, and inspire new ways of thinking and problem solving.
Nearly 40% of HVO volunteers are "repeat" volunteers. Volunteers cover their own travel costs and the average out-of-pocket costs associated with an assignment are $2,300.
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)