Japanese Nurse Volunteering in Laos

I'm currently travelling in Laos for the Christmas holiday. I met a Japanese nurse when I spent a day weaving at a vocational women's centre. She was here on a two year nursing placement working at a local hospital as a volunteer.

Many governments have opportunities for professionals like career nurses to volunteer in countries where aid is needed. Not all government given foreign aid is about money, a lot of it is about training the population.

Naomi, the nurse from Japan, had been in Vientiane, Laos for 9 months and had made many friends. She told me that she spent her time with friends that she'd made from Laos and other foreign nurses who were working at the hospital.

While she found the language difficult, she said that she was managing well and her main problem was not having enough time to fit everything in that she wanted to do...

Perhaps volunteering as an international nurse to help train trainee nurses in a developing country is a career move you'd be interested in making...

Volunteer nurses abroad