International Volunteer Opportunities Details
Details for Nellore, India
July 1-31
Unite For Sight volunteers work with Globe Eye Foundation, Bollineni Eye Foundation and Research Centre. Unite For Sight volunteers assist in the Globe Eye Foundation's delivery of community outreach screenings. The volunteers assist the eye clinic's staff to identify patients with eye disease in rural villages, assist the surgery patients during their stay at the hospital, and provide technical support for data entry and reporting.Lodging expenses at a local hotel are approximately $16USD per day. Sharing a room with another volunteer would reduce the price by half. Food is an additional expense.
Volunteers fly into the Chennai airport and are transported by Globe Eye Foundation to Nellore. Nellore is 170km (106 miles) from Chennai Airport, and the transportation costs approximately $15.
This program is suitable to anyone over the age of 18 with an interest in international service and health. Volunteers include undergraduate students, medical students, public health students, public health professionals, nurses, opticians, and others.
India
- There are an estimated 45 million blind people and 135 million visually impaired people worldwide.
- 80% of blindness is preventable or curable.
- There are 8.9 million blind people in India. 23.5% of the world's blind live in India.
- There are 11,000 ophthalmologists, which is 1 ophthalmologist per 95,414 people.
- Cataract blindness affects 5.3% of adults over the age of 50.
- 62.4% of bilateral blindness in adults over the age of 50 is due to cataract, which can be cured.