Volunteering
We continuously work to keep our expenses as low as possible. Of our more than 1,000 members, around 250 volunteer for ARCHEMED, most of them in programme work abroad. Almost 300 trips are carried out each year, about two thirds in the purely medical field and one third in the infrastructure field. In total, this amounts to just under 3,000 deployment days in the partner country per year.
All deployments are carried out without remuneration for the specialists; ARCHEMED covers only travel and insurance costs. A large proportion of these volunteers also sacrifice part of their annual leave for their voluntary commitment. Remuneration is provided only for services that require special liability, e.g. the maintenance of oxygen systems and anaesthesia machines.