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Community projects with Madventurer

Name: Madventurer
Address: Adamson House, 65 Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1SG

Tel: 0845 344 7522

Madventurer leads the way in providing those taking a gap year, summer break or careergap a variety of fantastic development travel opportunities. We encourage people to develop themselves and others through their travel experience - whether this is through playing sport, building, teaching, medical work, undertaking research, protecting wildlife or learning a new skill.

Mad Builders
Madventurer building projects are usually at the core of all Madventurer group projects. Based in rural areas and working on projects that small rural communities really need, you could be working on a project to build a school or local clinic, or you could be working on projects to improve drainage or improve sanitation by building a toilet block.

Often, you will be working on projects that the people of the village have been unable to undertake because of lack of funding. Therefore the money you bring to the project has a direct impact on the local community.

No previous building experience is necessary and you certainly don’t need to be muscle bound to work on these projects. Experienced local masons, carpenters and craftsmen will lead the group, teaching you the required skills and supervising your work. On the building projects you could be digging foundations, laying cement, building walls, plastering or painting.

Mad Medics
Working in the health sector in the developing world is a real challenge. For social, cultural, but mainly economic reasons, people don’t seek medical attention until their condition is incredibly advanced or they are serious pain. Coupled with poor health and sanitary provisions, medics in these countries are faced with conditions that we don’t see in the West.

Perhaps one of the most disturbing aspect of the health sector in these countries is that if patients can’t afford treatments or procedures then they don’t receive the treatment. If you can’t afford an x-ray, the doctor has to guess, if you can’t afford a tetanus injection, most likely you’ll get tetanus.

If you are studying or hoping to study medicine or a subject allied to medicine, there is a real opportunity to gain useful and different experience. Overworked doctors and nurses value any help you can give, and in return are happy to give you the opportunity to gain experience of the practise of medicine.