Working with Action Health will enable you to realise many new professional and personal skills, which you will bring back with you. You will learn more about yourself and your abilities, and also about the people and culture with which you work.

You will gain the experience and stimulation of working in a new environment, making new friends and developing and using new skills. You will learn first-hand about the inequalities in the world and why change can be so difficult. Your experience can have a profound effect on your outlook and career direction.

Action Health believe that your experience should be shared with work colleagues, family, friends and the general community. You can help people in your own country become better informed about health and development issues and thus work to change the current unequal situation.

From your experiences you will:

• Learn more about yourself and other cultures. This will strengthen your ability to adapt to new situations and to understand the needs of others.

• Learn how to work with fewer resources. This will help you to understand more clearly the value of cost effectiveness. Develop planning and management skills and the ability to enable others to identify their own needs and find solutions together.