Students will be traveling 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 , CIH is currently 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 will primarily be engaged in conducting health assessments and providing health promotion/education.  The students' work will contribute to CIH's on-going Primary Health Care project in Cambodia .

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

Insig members will be traveling 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 will be assisting staff with work in the minor OR, obstetrics & paediatrics departments. They will also provide clinical assistance with HIV testing and councelling. Insig members will be volunteering 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.

This summer seven nursing students will be volunteering in Danli , Honduras for
four weeks. There they will work as part of a team with local clinicians as well as volunteers from many other medical disciplines. Students will be volunteering 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. Students will work at these clinics providing medical care to all who require it. We will see 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, if there are enough medical supplies, 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 this summer, two nursing students will be volunteering 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 will be involved 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.