Frequently Ask Question

1. How do I send the money?

The money can be sent to us by 4 different ways:

(a) Wire or money transfer, bank to bank transfer payable to Ms. Ammara Chaemue on behalf of the Organization

(b) Western Union Money transfer payable to Ms. Ammara Chaemue on behalf of the Organization

(c) Draft, bank draft or check payable to Ms. Ammara Chaemue on behalf of the Organization

(d) Online by moneybookers.com to info@wherethereisnotadoctor.org

2. What should I bring with me?

You don't actually need to bring anything from your country because most of the things you need are available here and are very cheap as well. But if you still like to bring, these are the things you will definately need:

(a) mosquito net (b) torch (c) jungle boot or walking shoe (d) mosquito repellent (e) sleeping bed

3. Do I need to take anti-malaria medication?

No. It is not necessary as we have a better way of prevention. After all, the place where you are going to volunteer is not at risk for catching malaria. But as saying goes: prevention is better than cure. The kind of prevention we use with very good results are mentioned below:

(a) take vitamin B1 3 times a day and the mosquitoes hate the smell of it that comes up on your skin

(b) sleep with mosquito net   (c) drink boiled water

4. Do I need to take any vaccinations?

None of our volunteers in the past took any special vaccinations and none of them got sick so far. But if you still like to know, below are travel vaccinations:

(a) Tetanus

(b) Typhoid

(c) Hepatitis A,B

(d) Rabies

(e) Tuberculosis

(f) Meningococcal Meningitis

(g) Japanese B Encephalitis

5. As a volunteer, what shall I be doing?

Necessarily you don't need to be a medical professional in order to get involved in our medical social organization, you will find many social activities that you can get involved like:

giving hand in a bamboo clinic,

teaching English,

taking photos,

cooking,

fund-raising,

getting involved in hill-tribe daily activities,

playing games with children,

helping in building school, water supply system and toilets.

6. As a fourth year medical student, what can I do?

Which year you are in doesn't mean that you can do this or that. Only what you have learned from your school will count. A fifth year medical student from a certain country doesn't even know how to give an injection and a third year medical student from another country give an injection like an experienced physician. Anyway, all of you will find something to get involved with in our medical social organization and in return you will learn a lot from us. You can do the following things:

(a) taking patient's blood pressure

(b) giving IM and IV injection

(c) teaching first aid to the villagers

(d) teaching health education and basic hygienic living to the villagers

7. Do I need a special visa?

No. You don't need a special visa. People from the European Union, the United States, Canada, and many other nations can get a three months tourist visa by contacting the Thai embassy in their respective country. Almost all nationals get a 30 days tourist visa on arrival. So, you can even fly straight to Thailand without a visa and get a 30 days tourist visa at the Thai airport and extend it by crossing the Thai-Burma border which is 60 miles away from where you are volunteering with us.

8. Can I contact with former or recent volunteers to get more information?

At the moment we don't have that program running yet. But we are planning to set up that program. But to be very frank with you, by contacting former volunteers you will never get the right or accurate information that you need as everyone come to volunteer in his or in her own way, mood and style. Teaching can be fun to someone and it can be very boring to another volunteer because nobody is alike. So each volunteer takes his or her experience in his or her own way. The things that you heard from former volunteer can be very different to you when you come. As you are not him and he is not you, so it is better that you don't reply on others and moreover the second hand-information will never be accurate and promising. But we encourage each one of you to read what volunteer says and it will give you a clear picture of the work we are doing and the kind of work you will be doing and the hill-tribe people you will be helping.

9.How safe is the area in which you are working?

You are living in a civilized world where there are full of crimes like killing, murdering, stealing, raping,lying, kidnapping and more. We are living in an area where there is no such crimes and the hill-tribe people in the region are very simple, honest, sincere and very natural. We don't have polices because we don't need them. So, there is no reason that you should be concerned about safety while you can fearlessly live in a world that has lots of crimes. It is very safe. In the three years that I have been taking volunteers to the hill-tribes region there have been no incidences of theft, or any threat to those volunteers whatsoever. The people in these area's are peaceful and welcoming.