Volunteering
We continuously work to keep our expenses as low as possible. Of our more than 1,300 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 missions are carried out by our specialists without remuneration; ARCHEMED only covers travel and insurance costs. A high proportion of these volunteers also sacrifice part of their holiday for their voluntary commitment. In rare cases, medical professionals are granted leave by their employers for their deployment in the project country. Remuneration is only provided for services that require special liability, such as the maintenance of oxygen systems and anaesthesia equipment.