Village Healthcare Add-on
Get a glimpse of rural village life
Once your city-based placement has finished, you can go even deeper into the overseas experience by living a local life in a rural village for a week.
You’ll spend your mornings in a rural healthcare setting and see how local healthcare workers cope with an often extreme lack of resources. And you’ll spend your afternoons immersing yourself in local culture and making once-in-a-lifetime travel memories.
You get:
- A 5-day clinical placement in a rural healthcare setting
- Opportunity for cultural trips and activities in the afternoons
- A dedicated Work the World village guide
- Catered accommodation
- Transport to and from the village
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Get exceptional clinical experience
You'll travel to the village with your official Work the World guide. When you arrive, you'll meet the family you'll be staying with, then have a chance to settle in.
You'll visit the local health outpost, clinic or rural hospital each morning — this varies depending on which destination you’ve chosen. And here you'll see for yourself the challenges local staff face when trying to deliver care for their patients.
Make once-in-a-lifetime travel memories
Each afternoon, you're free to immerse yourself in local life to get a better understanding of culture and beliefs, and how people earn a living.
You'll also get the chance to have memory-worthy travel experiences.
Depending on which destination you choose, you could:
- Go island hopping to meet different local tribes
- Swim in waterfalls
- Help local fishermen bring in the day’s catch
- Hike to mountain temples
- Visit the village shaman to see traditional medicine
Village Experience Cost: $990 AUD
