Duration of participant: 1 week – 3 months
Eligible: paramedic, premedical students, medical students and medical professionals
Aim: to bring basic human rights to the less fortunate and underprivileged hill tribe communities by providing free health care
Way of the project: mobile clinic: We move around in 50 or more villages as we give free medical treatments to the sick villagers. In each village we stay for 2-3 days as we see, check and treat sick villagers.
Most of the villages are located in the hills along Thai-Myanmar border, which is 2-3 hour drive from downtown Chiang Rai city.
Depending on the size of the village we stay, we normally see 50-150 sick villagers a day as the largest hill tribe village consist of 150 families, and the smallest village is about 12 families.
We normally spend 15-30 US$ on a patient for medication and treatment as we give away 3-7 different medications on top of IV drips, IV push, injection, lab tests as well as minor and major surgeries.
Budget or Funding for medical supplies:
Usually we spend 1,500 – 3,500 US$ in 1-2 weeks time for medications and treatments. We carry large amount of medical supplies; tons of drugs, IV drips, IV push, injections, medical equipment, and lab tests.
Depending on the budget and funding brought by volunteers, we visit small or big villages. Usually with big funding with big group of volunteers, we visit big villages.
As being said above, funding the medical project is required since we are giving free medical treatment to the sick villagers who are otherwise not able to access to local or any health care due to a lack of citizenship on top of being marginalized, discriminated, shunned and looked down upon by the local Thai societies.
We also see Myanmar war refugees and Internally displaced people that are hiding and are sheltering along Thai-Myanmar borders from civil war’s persecution in their country.
Budget and Funding for medical supplies:
Individual and couple: The minimum budget is 1,500 US$ for medical supplies purchase. It is good for 1-2 weeks.
Group Volunteer Funding for medical supplies:
Group-volunteer: funding for 1-2 week
A group of 20 or less: The minimum funding is 1,500-2,500 US$ for medical supplies
A group of 40 or less: The minimum funding is 2,500-3,500 US$ for medical supplies
Group-volunteer: funding for 3-4 weeks
A group of 20 or less: The minimum funding is 3,500-4,000 US$
A group of 40 or less: The minimum funding is 4,000-5,000 US$
Food expense for Group volunteer
Group-volunteer : 1 week: ( volunteer for 1 week )
A group of 20 volunteers or less – 300 US$ per volunteer per week
A group of 40 volunteers or less – 250 US$ per volunteer per week
Group-volunteer : 2 weeks: ( volunteer for 2 weeks )
A group of 20 volunteers or less – 250 US$ per volunteer per week
A group of 40 volunteers or less – 200 US$ per volunteer per week
Group-volunteer: 3-4weeks: ( volunteer for 3-4weeks )
A group of 20 volunteers or less – 150 US$ per volunteer per week
A group of 40 volunteers or less – 100 US$ per volunteer per week