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Formerly Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Improving the health of women, children and their communities around the world.
WellShare Volunteers in Tanzania display the pregnancy register they helped create.
Volunteer
A group of dedicated volunteers started WellShare in 1979. Thirty years later, we still depend on the work of passionate volunteers to expand our impact around the world.
WellShare offers a variety of internships and volunteer positions both domestically and abroad. Currently, WellShare welcomes professionals and students (undergraduate and graduate) who are seeking service opportunities or internships in fulfillment of their graduation requirements. Volunteer and internship opportunities with WellShare are available at our headquarters office in Minneapolis, Minnesota and at our field sites in East Africa. We place volunteers with a range of experience and skills, not limited to the health field, to assist with our community-based health programs with refugees in Minnesota and communities in Uganda and Tanzania.
WellShare is initiating a new process of quarterly application deadlines, the first of which will be October 1, 2010 for an approximate start date in January 2011. You can read more about this process in the application instructions. If you are interested in volunteering sooner than that, please contact us to discuss currently available opportunities.
If you're interested in joining us as we educate people to take charge of their own health, we encourage you to read the application instructions and complete an application.
For more information on specific opportunities, please follow the links below.
Hear from volunteer Sarah Frommer, Spring '09
The MIHV-Tz office is located in the rural town of Karatu, which is approximately 2 hours west of Arusha. It is located in one of the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen (that says a lot since I have done quite a bit of traveling). Within a few hours, you have access to Tarangire, Lake Manyara, the Great Rift Valley, Ngorongoro Crater, and the Serengeti. Walking around town you will meet a diversity of local people, including the much talked about Maasai. Read more about Sarah's experience.
WellShare Volunteer Wins "Community Volunteer of the Year" Award from UGAMN
Former WellShare International Volunteer Brenda Senyana recently won the award for 'Community Volunteer of the Year' by the Ugandan Association of Minnesota. We recently got a change to interview Brenda about her experience working with WellShare and what receiving this award means to her. Click here to read more.
