Three Students traveled to Cambodia for the month of July with the Centre for International Health (CIH) at the University of Toronto.  Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Cambodia, the CIH has been developing a program that aims to enhance Primary Health Care in Cambodia . After decades of political and social instability, the Cambodian healthcare system has been eroded and the health status of the general population has deteriorated. While in Cambodia , the students conducted health assessments and provided health promotion/education.  The students' workl contributed to CIH's on-going Primary Health Care project in Cambodia. They also worked at the Children's Hospital In Siem Reap, a hospital associated with the a Canadian NGO, the David McAnthony Gibson Foundation (DMGF).

Four students spent three weeks traveling between communities in the rural Andes and Amazon regions of the country, working with the CEMOPLAF medical center. CEMOPLAF is an NGO that provides low-cost healthcare to the underprivileged in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The students spent some time working in rural impoverished communities only accessible by canoe and traveled to different communities as part of the center's outreach program. In their placements, the student participated in health assessments, prenatal care, on- site laboratory work, health promotion/education, and administration of nutritional supplements. These activities were carried out under the supervision of the NGO medical team.

Three INSIG members traveled to Ethiopia for the month of August to volunteer at the Free Methodist World Movement Clinic which serves an impoverished neighbourhood of Addis Ababa . The members assisted staff with work in the minor OR, obstetrics & paediatrics departments. They also provided clinical assistance with HIV testing and councelling. The three INSIG members volunteered in these wards as well as helping in the Nutrition Rehabilitation Clinic, which daily sees children and adults with malnutrition and the disorders which accompany calorie and protein deficiency, such as kwashiorkor syndrome.

In July, seven nursing students volunteered in Danli , Honduras for
four weeks. There they worked as part of a team with local clinicians as well as volunteers from many other medical disciplines. The students volunteered with Mountain Movers Mission International which has two clinics, a general medical clinic and the newly opened birthing centre. The goal of Mountain Movers is to improve the lives of the poorest people in Danli, those who would not otherwise have access to, or be able to afford medical care. The students worked at these clinics providing medical care to all who require it. They saw patients five days a week from 7:30 am until the patients stop coming for the day, under direct supervision of qualified clinicians. In addition, the students will carry out medical brigades into the more rural parts of Honduras, where people have no access to medical care.

For five weeks in the summer of 2005, two nursing students volunteered with the Veerni Project's Medical Initiative in Rajasthan , India . The Veerni Project ( www.veerni.org ), founded in 1993, attempts to bring sustainable health and community development to the rural areas of Rajasthan. Specifically, the Veerni medical team brings health education to fifteen villages in an effort to stem the ignorance around nutrition, hygiene and family health. In their placements, the nursing student volunteers were iinvolved in providing assistance to the medical team in bringing health teaching to the villages and schools in the Veerni District, as well as family planning services and disease treatment.

In July and August of 2005, two INSIG members, Cindy Pilchuk and Amanda Walsh, traveled to Kisumu, Kenya, to volunteer their clinical services and to engage in capacity building projects. In turn, they had many wonderful education experiences, having learned much about the psychosocial care of patients with HIV/AIDS, tropical infectious disease, care for children with Burkitt's lymphoma, community health nursing in Nyanza Province , and palliative care in developing countries. During their time in Kisumu, the INSIG members' capacity building projects included providing a variety of training courses for physicians, nurses and counsellors, rewriting hospital policies, developing support group networks and making a policy recommendation to the Provincial Government. As there is no universal health care coverage in Kenya , patients in Kisumu struggle to pay for health care, which is priced far above the average person's wage. Health care is unaffordable to the average person in Kisumu which is why patients do not arrive at a hospital unless they are in the advanced stages of disease,, most often dying. Much of the care provided is supportive, as patients often can not afford the treatment. On an average day on the surgical ward of NPGH, there are fifty two patients, forty beds, two nurses and two medical residents.