Volunteering
We are constantly working to keep our expenses as low as possible. Of our more than 1,000 members, around 250 work for ARCHEMED on a voluntary basis, most of them in programme work abroad. Almost 300 trips are organised each year, of which around two thirds are purely medical and one third are in the infrastructure sector. In total, this amounts to almost 3,000 days of work in the partner country in one year.
All assignments are carried out without remuneration for the specialists; ARCHEMED only bears the travel and insurance costs. A high proportion of these volunteers also sacrifice part of their holiday for their voluntary work. Remuneration is only paid for services that require special liability, e.g. the maintenance of oxygen systems and anaesthesia machines.