Volunteer Program

The Pan American Health Service Volunteer's Program aims to promote the volunteer spirit in order to bring cheer to both the volunteer as well as to the people who receive their assistance.

About Our Volunteer Program

The hard work of our dedicated staff has been supplemented by many volunteers over the last 50 years. Great-hearted professionals and students of various fields have become good friends and valuable colleagues of our organization. They bring with them a message of goodwill and love, not only for the children on our campus but also to community members around Lake Yojoa .

Would you like to Volunteers?

If you would like to share your time with our kids or would like to build on the potential of our industries, or if you are interested in assisting in one of our education programs, you can Download the information brochure about how you can become a volunteer.

Opportunities Available

• Agriculture and Gardening
• Educational Tutoring
• Business
• Construction
• Building Maintenance
• Child Care
• Health Services
• Art and Music Classes
• Counseling Services

Ideal Applicant

Our work was started 50 years ago by missionaries who believed in showing love to the poor through meeting their needs. Considering our missionary legacy, our ideal applicant will hold similar values to those espoused in Isaiah 58:7. The ideal applicant has a compassionate heart and a desire to share of themselves to help the poor.

The ideal applicant has a strong sense of adventure and a desire to help people with little education and few resources. The desire to be of assistance motivates the ideal applicant to exhibit creativity in problem solving and a high degree of flexibility. Their insight and understanding of human nature and cultural differences aids in their mission to be of assistance and to successfully complete their volunteer experience.

Our ideal applicant exhibits a good moral example in their behavior, keeping in mind that they are helping to mold the characters of the children and adolescents being raised on our campus.

The ideal applicant is anyone over the age of 21, who has meaningful work experience, is the student of a profession or is a trained professional, and who is a team-player, highly self-motivated and can be productive with minimum supervision.

If you posses the qualities of our ideal applicant and have talents you are willing to share by volunteering on our campus in Honduras, fill it out our online Application Form. if you got any question regarding our volunteer program You can email us to our Volunteers Email we will be happy to provide answers!

Application Process

For Long Term Volunteers : 1 - 24 months

Use this link to fill out our Online Application

You may also download the application in PDF, (Right click and select "save as") complete it and return it in paper or Via Fax or download the Word extension and complete it and send it via E-mail to volunteers@panamhealth.org.

Obtain two professional references from former work supervisors, and one personal reference from a clergy member who knows you. Have these mailed directly to PO Box 888, Keene, TX 76059 or emailed to volunteers@panamhealth.org . The people who provide references for you must be available for a telephone consultation with the Program Director or Administrator.

Be available for a telephone interview with the PAHS Program Director or Administrator. If you are accepted as a volunteer please provide your travel itinerary to your contact as soon as you have finalized it. You may email your itinerary to usoffice@panamhealth.org and to volunteers@panamhealth.org.

For Short Term Volunteers : 1 - 4 weeks

Contact us at our texas office 817-641-2646 or whrite to volunteer@panamhealth.org and express your wish to volunteer along with dates you are interested. after talking with a representative, fill out the volunteer Online Form ( Online Form for Groups click here ) or download the pdf form and fax it to our office in texas. If you are accepted as a volunteer please provide your travel itinerary to your contact person as soon as you have finalized it.