Asia and Oceania

A nonprofit organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Hands of Hope’s mission is to uniquely and deeply love orphans at home and around the world. Areas of focus include adoption, orphan care, and foster care. Hands of Hope seeks to serve their partner children’s homes through short-term mission trips to El Salvador and Ukraine.

The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children, a non-profit organization incorporated in Washington, D.C. and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, provides access to medical care for millions of underprivileged and medically underserved children around the world. Volunteers from all walks of life, from college students to medical professionals, are welcome.

The Smile Foundation, a nonprofit organization, works to empower less privileged children, youth, and women in India through education, healthcare, and livelihood initiatives. The Smile Foundation encourages and invites volunteers to be an active part of their organization.

Global Frontier Missions, a nonprofit organization based in Clarkston, Georgia, is dedicated to mobilizing, training, and multiplying disciples and churches to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the least reached people groups of the earth. Short-term mission trips are open to medical missions groups.

The Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, an independent mission agency based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has healthcare ministries throughout the world, which include full-service hospitals, mobile and itinerant medical clinics, crisis pregnancy centers, and community health evangelism teams. Volunteer anesthesiologists, dentists, dental hygienists, hospital administrators, midwives, nurse practitioners, nurses, obstetricians and gynecologists, pediatricians, pharmacists, and physical therapists, physicians, physician

The mission of the Alliance for Smiles, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, is to repair children’s broken smiles by providing free treatment for cleft lip and palate deformities in underserved areas of the world. Volunteer positions on medical missions include the following: plastic surgeon, anesthesiologist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, pediatrician, OR nurse, PACU nurse, dentist, dental hygienist,

The Foundation for International Education in Neurological Surgery, a nonprofit organization, was founded by a group of leading neurosurgeons in order to address the critical lack of trained neurosurgeons in developing countries. Volunteer neurosurgeons and personnel teach their techniques to local neurosurgeons, set up neurosurgery residency programs, and provide critical assistance in the operating room.

Good Shepherd Volunteers, a nonprofit organization based in Astoria, New York, collaborates with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to provide full-time volunteers with the opportunity to work in social service ministries and to use their God-given talents serving women, adolescents, and children affected by poverty, violence, and neglect. Volunteer counselors and caseworkers are utilized

World Surgical Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, is committed to providing charitable surgical healthcare to the world’s poor and underserved in developing nations regardless of race, color, religion, or creed.

Surgeons OverSeas, a New York-based nonprofit organization, is committed to saving lives in developing countries by improving surgical care. This is accomplished via three programmatic arms: direct interventions and missions, advocacy, and research.

Strong Villages, a nonprofit organization based in Agoura Hills, California, provides culturally sensitive assistance to indigenous populations worldwide. Please consider volunteering to provide dental and medical care.

With the help of volunteer doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, Philos Health, an international nonprofit corporation based in San Francisco, is able to provide medical, surgical, and dental care to residents of the Philippines who have limited access to medical care.

Children’s International Dental Project, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, provides free dental care to children around the world. You too can volunteer to help.

Tahanan Sta. Luisa, an NGO, is a crisis intervention and recovery center in the Philippines whose mission is to provide rehabilitation for physically/sexually abused and prostituted street girls between the ages of 11–15 years old upon admission. If you are a trained professional, Tahanan Sta. Luisa would be delighted if you could volunteer some of your

The principal purpose of ChildHope Philippines, a nonprofit organization, is to advocate for the cause of street children in the Philippines. If you are a trained professional, ChildHope Philippines would be delighted if you could volunteer some of your time.

Respiratory Therapists Without Borders’ mission is to improve respiratory health through educational advancement of local healthcare providers worldwide. As a charity established and run on 100% volunteer efforts, your professional skills, knowledge and expertise, or organizational support is invaluable.

Give an Hour, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, was founded to provide free and confidential mental health services to military veterans and their loved ones. Give an Hour’s network has licensed mental health professionals located in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam who have donated mental health services. Volunteers may be psychologists,

Tsum Valley Medical Mission, a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization, is looking for nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, physicians, physician assistants, osteopaths, dentists, acupuncturists, and nurses to provide care at several health camps that will be held in the remote Himalaya for people who have no access to medical care.

Midwife Pilgrim, a Vermont-based nonprofit organization, is dedicated to responding to global communities in crisis and disaster situations with skilled, compassionate midwifery care. Volunteer midwives are needed right now in Greece, Turkey, Nepal, and Kenya.

Women’s Health Cambodia, a nonprofit organization, equips and staffs a network of regional health centres in and around Takeo, a town south of Phnom Penh. Midwives, doulas, doctors, and nurses serve as volunteers.

Occupational Therapy Around the World aims to inspire national and international experiences and provide knowledge to thousands to help millions.

Namo Buddha Foundation Canada is a registered Canadian charitable organization that raises funds and sends volunteers to  provide food, clothing, simple medical care, and education to the poor children of the Himalayan region of Nepal, India, and Tibet. Medical volunteers can contact Namo Buddha Medical Clinic directly.  

Acupuncture in the World is a medical and scientific NGO, headquartered in Italy, which aims to make known, spread, and develop acupuncture in the world, practicing in the countries of the developing world. If you are medical doctor and expert acupuncturist who wishes to volunteer, do not hesitate to contact the organization.

The Acupuncture Institute and Free Community Clinic of Ananda Nagar, a nonprofit organization, administers treatment to individuals in Ananda Nagar, India, with acute and chronic conditions. Experienced acupuncturists are needed to volunteer as visiting teachers or practitioners.

The Gar Tibet Health Project, a small nonprofit organization, is devoted to creating access to health care and improving maternal and child health in the remote, semi-nomadic communities of eastern Tibet. Volunteers that are especially needed are family doctors, family nurse practitioners, pediatricians, acupuncturists, and midwives.