Share your food with hungry people.
       Provide homeless people with a place to stay.
    Give naked people clothes to wear.
       Provide for the needs of your own family.

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.

Opportunities Available

The hard work of our dedicated staff has been supplemented by many volunteers over the last 45 years. Great-hearted professionals and students of various fields have become good friends and valuable colleagues of our institution. 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 .

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.

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Ideal Applicant

Our work was started 45 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.

In addition, our 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, download the text form, fill it out, and send it to our fax number or address in the USA.

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Application Process

For Long Term Volunteers : 1 - 24 months
Download the application in PDF, complete it and return it in paper or Via Fax. or download the WOrd extention and complete it and send it via E-mail
Obtain two professional references from former supervisors and one personal reference from a clergy member. Have them sent directly to PO Box 888, Keene, TX 76059 or emailed to panamhealth@yahoo.com . Your references must be available for a telephone interview with the PAHS Director or Administrator.
Be available for a telephone interview with the PAHS Director or the Administrator.
If you are accepted as a volunteer please provide your travel itinerary to the USA Administrator as soon as you have finalized it.