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Being volunteer driven we have several programs that almost anybody can volunteer for. Since we have infrastructure we can house our volunteer at reasonable costs. While on mission with us we ask that you stay at our headquarters (Hacienda La Esperanza). These are very nice accomodations and our volunteer programs includes all rooms, meals, transporation to the mountain villages, guides, translators, gear, and more. The daily rate is $67.00 per day per person, plus local taxes of 12%.
100% of volnteer's expenses is donated to Paramedics For Children in the name of the volunteer to hlep PFC pay for the expenses of the programs and to maintain our infrastructure, and general costs of operation for our medical clinic, school supply programs, as well as the costs of maintance and room and board for our volunteers.
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Travel Logistics
We take volunters for one week missions. Volunteer missions start on Sundays and end on Sundays. All volunteers stay with us on site, and work in the mountains week days from 7 AM until 12:00 PM in the mountain villages surrounding our headquarters in Copan Ruinas, Honduras. Usually each day is a different location. Volunteers will work in one of two programs depending on when they come. This will be either school supply missions, or Children's health and Identification programs. Volunteer teams are limited to 10 people. Teams are divided into work, or delivery stations, insuring that each child gets individual attention from the volunteers.
We strongly suggest that volunteers come to us in teams of two since fees are based on a minimum of 2 people to a room. In other words bring a traveling buddy.
All volunteers must pay all of their own expenses to come to Honduras and for room and board with us at a rate of $67 per day plus 12% Honduras taxes. There are no other fees beyond this.
For more information please email us at Rodgeratpfc@aol.com or go to (http://www.paramedicsforchildren.org/volunteer1.htm)
Volunteer positions are open from Feb 15. - Nov. 15
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1. Since 1997, PFC has provided school supplies for 2,000 children in the 25 high mountain schools in the Copan Valley in northwestern Honduras. While public education is available, Honduras only furnishes the building and teachers. Families must pay for the children's books and supplies. In a country where the
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1. Since 1997, PFC has provided school supplies for 2,000 children in the 25 high mountain schools in the Copan Valley in northwestern Honduras. While public education is available, Honduras only furnishes the building and teachers. Families must pay for the children's books and supplies. In a country where the average wage is only $3.50 per day, few poor children get to attend school. Many families can only send one of their children at a time, and even that is at a great sacrifice. PFC's program has helped to substantially increase enrollment and to decrease student dropouts. The education the children are getting enables them to seek better jobs and empowers them to improve their lives.
2. PFC also provides nutritional vitamins to nutritionally deficient children in the Copan Valley. Children receive medical evaluations and can receive vitamins distributed by their school teachers. This program has resulted in some incredible improvements in the health of children and their ability to nurture and prosper.
3. PFC's Clinic of Hope in Copan Ruinas is now treating up to 750 patients per month. Through a unique program, PFC makes affordable health care available to over 25,000 poor for as little as $0.79 cents a patient. This established program has been in operation since 2005 and has not only made a significant difference in care available to the poor, but has also proven a working model that can be used elsewhere. PFC provides a clinic, equipment, and donated medicines at no charge to local doctors. PFC then pays the doctors a small hourly supplement for each hour that they work at the clinic. In return, the doctors charge each patient a very low fee, which on average is only 25% of a normal patient fee. This is beneficial arrangement for all since a large number poor can now afford a doctor's visit and come to the Clinic of Hope and the doctors are an ever ready, growing number of patients.
4. Since 1999, PFC has placed in service over 48 ambulances, trained over 340 volunteers in basic life support, and provided medical supplies in Honduras and Guatemala. The PFC ambulance program starts with the donation of high quality used ambulances that we transport to Central American and donate in kind to PFC partners in Guatemala and Honduras. Prior to PFC's first ambulance donation, emergency medical care in this area did not exist as we know it. Many of the poor children and adults who suffered from trauma simply died from lack of professional emergency medical aid. PFC established the first all volunteer rescue squad in the history of Honduras. Currently, PFC donated ambulances in Honduras and Guatemala run about 300 emergency calls per month - all for the poor who most likely would not receive care otherwise.
5. Since 2008 we have been operating a children's health and identification program (CHIP) in the mountains surrounding our location in Western Honduras. This involves taking small teams of volunteers up to local villages and doing health services such as weighing, measuring, recording age, and photographing each child into our health and identification data base as an outreach of our medical clinic.
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