VOLUNTEER AT OUR MEDICAL CAMP IN OCTOBER

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Shines Children will run its third annual medical camp on 15 and 16 October 2025. We invite healthcare professionals of all kinds to volunteer their services for this event. The past two medical camps have treated many hundreds of people free of charge, and have referred patients on to other charities and hospitals for further treatment. This includes a 10 year old boy who was diagnosed with cataracts at the camp and received surgery just two weeks later.

We would be thrilled to welcome all doctors, nurses, midwives, optometrists, pharmacists, dentists and any other related profession to help us to make 2025's annual medical camp the best and biggest yet.

 

The camp takes place at Shines Primary School in Miirya, the town of Masindi, Western Uganda. Volunteers stay in Masindi itself and travel dailty to the camp. Masindi is a friendly, walkable town, about 4 hours' drive from Entebbe Airport and the capital city of Kampala. Although Masindi is growing fast, it still retains the feel of a small town, far from the pollution and chaos of a large city like Kampala.

Shines does not charge volunteers anything for organising the volunteering opportunity itself, but all volunteers will need to meet their own expenses (other than return travel between Entebbe Airport and Masindi, and local travel to the medical camp itself). You will be responsible for arranging and paying for your own:

• flights

• visa

• accommodation and food in Masindi

• travel insurance

• vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis

• local SIM card

For further details, contact info@shinesuk.org or telephone +44 (0) 7711 104 867.:.