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Mayan Medical Aid
Founded in 2006 with the express purpose of funding medically related projects to benefit the Mayan Indians of Guatemala and Southern Mexico, Mayan Medical Aid offers a variety of volunteer opportunities with its many health projects, as well as a top-rated Medical Spanish Immersion Course.

Curamericas
Provides preventive and curative health care to over 300,000 people in Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico through self-sustaining local partnerships.

Action Without Borders
Contains listings of over 32,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 153 countries.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Dedicates its efforts and resources to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The AAP has approximately 57,000 members in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Members include pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists.

American Medical Students Association (AMSA)
Founded in 1950, AMSA is a student-governed, non-profit organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. A fully independent student organization, the association focuses its energies on the problems of the medically underserved, inequities in our health-care system, and related issues in medical education. With approximately 50,000 members, including medical and premedical students, residents, and practicing physicians, AMSA is committed to improving medical training, as well as advancing the profession of medicine. The organization has four strategic priorities, a) universal healthcare, b) disparities in medicine, c) diversity in medicine, and d) transforming the culture of medical education.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Represents scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education. The Society's mission is to promote world health by prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education.

Doctors for Global Health
Promotes health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding in 1995, Doctors for Global Health (DGH) has attracted more than 500 active supporters, including doctors and other health care workers, students, educators, attorneys, and engineers. Most of these volunteers work within their own communities, while others also have spent from a week to over a year working in El Salvador, Chiapas (Mexico), Nicaragua, Uganda and / or other countries. DGH was created by volunteers who were accompanying the communities of war-torn Morazán province in northeastern El Salvador during the 1990’s.

Doctors of the World
Mobilizes the health sector to promote and protect basic human rights and civil liberties for all people in the United States and abroad. In collaboration with a network of affiliates around the world and in partnership with local communities, they work where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties. Doctors of the World also provides essential care and services while training community residents to carry on the mission of health at the conclusion of their efforts.

Esperanca
Specializes in treatment and training for poor remote villages of third world countries.

Freedom from Hunger
Brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. With local partners, it equips families with resources needed to build futures of health, hope and dignity.

Global Volunteer Network
Offers volunteer opportunities in community projects throughout the world. It currently provides volunteer programs through partner organizations in Alaska, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. The vision is to support the work of local community organizations in developing countries through the placement of international volunteers.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Protects the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and provides them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted in situations of conflict. Endeavors to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

International Medical Corps (IMC)
Offers training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations. It also rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. The IMC shares knowledge with colleagues in regions where health care systems have been crippled by crisis and chaos, and it helps to develop programs to improve health care for the most vulnerable.

International Medical Volunteers (IMV)
Promotes, facilitates, and supports voluntary medical activity through education and information exchange. Its interests are primarily in developing countries, and it works with a wide range of volunteers: physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists, hospital administrators, public health specialists, technologists, health educators, missionaries, physician's assistants, students and others interested in health care. the IMV also provides information about volunteer opportunities and offers practical advice on how to find and choose compatible assignments.

Medical Assistance Program (MAP)
Provides essential medicines, prevents and eradicates disease, and promotes community health development. MAP's international programs are eliminating the causes of sickness and disease by providing free medicines and medical care, improving water supplies and food production and establishing community directed health education and training.

Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
Coordinates U.S. Government emergency assistance overseas. It provides humanitarian assistance to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the social and economic impact of natural and man-made disasters worldwide. The OFDA responds to all types of natural disasters, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, droughts, fires, pest infestations, and disease outbreaks. It also provides assistance when lives are threatened by accidental or human-caused catastrophes such as civil strife, acts of terrorism, or industrial accidents.

Operation Smile
Provides reconstructive surgery and related health care to indigent children and young adults in developing countries and the United States. It also educates and trains physicians and other health care professionals around the world to achieve long-term self-sufficiency.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Works to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System and as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. PAHO enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.

Pathfinder International
Supports high quality family planning and reproductive health services, which improve the lives of women, men, and children throughout the developing world. Pathfinder works in 23 countries throughout Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Near East. It is committed to making family planning and reproductive health services available to all who want them. In isolated rural areas, Pathfinder trains community members to provide their neighbors with contraceptive services and reproductive health counseling in their own homes.

Refugees International
Generates lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement. It offers internships on a summer, semester, and ongoing schedule, as well as job postings.

Rotaplast International
Facilitates medical missions to provide surgical intervention for untreated cleft lips and palates in children worldwide who are not able to receive treatment or who are in need of more complicated medical procedures than can be provided by local physicians.

SERVEnet
Provides the largest database of volunteer opportunities in America. Through SERVEnet, users can enter their zip code, city, state, skills, interests, and availability and be matched with organizations needing help. It is also a place to search for calendar events, job openings, service news, recommended books, and best practices. SERVEnet has over 6,000 registered non-profit organizations, 35,000+ service projects, and over 52,000,000 volunteer opportunities available.

UNICEF
Helps children get the care and stimulation they need in the early years of life and encourages families to educate girls as well as boys. UNICEF strives to reduce childhood death and illness and to protect children in the midst of war and natural disaster. It also supports young people, wherever they are, in making informed decisions about their own lives, and strives to build a world in which all children live in dignity and security.

Unite for Sight
Empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. With more than 3,000 volunteers in eighty-five chapters established at universities, medical schools, corporations, high schools, and in communities worldwide, Unite For Sight works to build healthier communities through eye disease prevention, eye health promotion, and health education. Each chapter works with local community infrastructures to improve access to health programs. Medical student and physician electives available.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Promotes international refugee agreements and monitors government compliance with international refugee law. UNHCR works in a variety of locations ranging from capital cities to remote camps and border areas, attempting to provide the abovementioned protection and to minimize the threat of violence, including sexual assault, which many refugees are subject to, even in countries of asylum. It also helps refugees repatriate to their homeland if conditions warrant, by helping them to integrate in their countries of asylum or to resettle in third countries.

Volunteer Service Overseas
Uses a ‘people-to-people’ approach to development. Instead of sending food or money, the organization sends women and men from a wide range of professions who want the chance to make a real difference in the fight against poverty. These volunteers work in partnership with colleagues and communities to share skills and learning to jointly achieve change. VSO also works to address the structural inequalities and barriers that prevent people from exercising their rights.

VolunteerMatch
Offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer, and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Interested volunteers can enter their zip code on the VolunteerMatch home page to quickly find local volunteer opportunities posted by nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Its business services are designed to meet the needs of leading corporations, who recognize the business and social value of community involvement.

Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
Empowers the poor in developing countries by providing access to information and knowledge, strengthening local institutions and introducing improved technologies. Its focus is on support to entrepreneurs in the private, public and community sectors and on facilitating connectivity and technical information exchange between and among individuals and organizations.

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