Volunteer your services
To volunteer resources, time or skills to the Bairo Pite Clinic, please contact Medical Aid for East Timor (MAET) and/or the clinic directly.
Needed skills include medical support, plumbers, heavy equipment operators, electricians, computer specialists (hardware or software), auto or diesel mechanics, gardeners, videographers, construction workers, water engineers, solar energy installers… There are very few skills which cannot be utilized somewhere at sometime.
In the medical field, we need volunteer medical staff in all fields including nurses (maternity or other) and paramedics, surgeons and general practitioners, dentists, dental assistants, ER staff, lab technicians, medical administrators, pharmacists, medical and nursing students, pre-med students, nutritionists, midwives, social workers, specialists and educators in sexually transmitted diseases and alternative medicine practitioners.
On a recent visit, MAET observed that volunteer doctors from Thailand, Ireland, Portugal and Australia worked as volunteers. Pre-med students from Australia, South Korea and the USA and medical students from Australia and Great Britain provided valuable support services and actively worked and consulted with clinic doctors. Volunteers from New Zealand worked full time on administrative duties, a Japanese man worked on TB and maternity issues. Film crews from New Zealand, California (via Ireland), Australia and elsewhere were working on educational and promotional videos. “Clearly BPC is a vibrant international effort!”
It will be a while before the East Timorese will be self sufficient in medicine, but it can and will happen. In a decade the oil money hopefully will lift East Timor out of its position among the bottom ten countries of the world financially. In the interim you can contribute – we desperately need your help.