Volunteer Abroad In The Global Impact Corps
Recruiting and Training New Leaders in Global Health
Unite For Sight is the world's leader in socially responsible, effective volunteering abroad. We engage, inspire, and train high-impact volunteers who support and assist eye clinics globally. With the assistance of volunteers like you, Unite For Sight has restored sight to 24,130 patients and provided eye care to 800,000.
All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows. Our goal is to build entrepreneurial leaders who gain skills in social change through Unite For Sight's immersive global health experience. Through hands-on, structured training, we instill in our volunteers a thorough understanding of best practice principles in volunteerism, global health, and international development. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health.
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Unite For Sight supports eye clinics by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. The tools and strategies of social entrepreneurship are achieving social change. Unite For Sight's programs demonstrate the highest standards in social entrepreneurship, and are sustainable, apply best practice principles in global health and development, and achieve effective change.
- Experience the thrill of contributing to change on the highest level
- Be part of global problem solving
- Receive training in effective community-based program delivery
- Be immersed in effective global health and eye care programs
- Be engaged in ethical, high quality and high impact volunteerism
- Be inspired to become a leader in global health
- Join a movement of social innovators committed to global health and sustainable development
- Become part of an alumni network that supports leaders in social change
- Participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for volunteers interested in global health research
Anyone Can Be A Global Impact Fellow, From Any Country
"Through this organization[Unite For Sight]...I see that it's possible for medical practitioners, public health workers, and students, to come together and to achieve what seems impossible. That working selflessly with sensitivity to cultural difference and to human dignity, right thinking individuals can together change the way that the whole world works...And to provide a model for all those idealistic young people...who want to do their part to make this world a better place."--Jane Edwards, Associate Dean for International Affairs, Yale University, at the 2008 Unite For Sight Conference
Unite for Sight's programs are locally led and managed by our partner eye clinics that provide year-round high quality eye care and continuity of care for all patients. Unite For Sight Global Impact Fellows work with local ophthalmic nurses, optometrists, and ophthalmologists to support and assist the clinic in outreach programs that reduce all of the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, and education barriers. The programs in which Global Impact Fellows participate are sustainable, apply best practice principles in global health and development, and achieve effective change.
Global Impact Fellows Create Real, Lasting Change
Ophthalmologist Dr. Rose Speaks About The Importance of Volunteering With Unite For Sight
Volunteer Chiwing "Jessica" Qu Discusses Volunteering With Unite For Sight