Cameroon does not have enough doctors. You can help close the gap.
Cameroon has roughly 1.1 physicians for every 10,000 people, against a World Health Organization benchmark of 10. In rural areas the figure falls below one. That shortage is the reason AFCA exists — and volunteers are the reason our campaigns can happen at all.
Every AFCA outreach is staffed by professionals who give their time freely. A single day of your practice can mean hundreds of people seeing a doctor who otherwise would not have.
- You choose which campaigns you join — no ongoing commitment
- You work strictly within your own scope and registration
- Clinical and non-clinical roles both needed
- Open to professionals across all regions of Cameroon
Who we need on a campaign
Every role below makes a difference to how many people we can see in a day.
Medical doctors
General practitioners and specialists to run consultations, make diagnoses, prescribe and decide referrals. The role most in demand at every campaign.
Nurses and midwives
Triage, vital signs, wound care, injections, antenatal checks and patient counselling. Often the first and last person a patient speaks to.
Pharmacists and technicians
Running the on-site pharmacy: dispensing prescribed medication, explaining dosage clearly, and keeping accurate records of what goes out.
Laboratory scientists
Rapid testing for malaria and other conditions, blood glucose, and supporting screening for hypertension and diabetes.
Health educators
Running group sessions on prevention, hygiene, nutrition and chronic disease while patients wait — turning waiting time into useful time.
Non-clinical volunteers
Registration, queue and crowd management, translation into local languages, record-keeping, transport and set-up. Campaigns fail without this.
What we expect from volunteers
Our standards on outreach are the same as in a hospital. Patients attending a free clinic are entitled to exactly the same competence and courtesy as fee-paying ones.
- Valid professional registration or licence, for clinical roles
- Willingness to work strictly within your scope of practice
- Respect for patients’ dignity, privacy and confidentiality
- Patience — campaign days are long and queues are real
- Clear communication, ideally in a language the community speaks
- Reliability: if you commit to a date, the team plans around you
A campaign day, roughly
Arrive and set up
The team assembles early, sets out registration, triage, consultation and pharmacy stations, and agrees who covers what.
Registration and triage
Patients are registered and triaged so that the most urgent cases are seen first, not simply the earliest arrivals.
Consultation and testing
The bulk of the day. Consultations run in parallel, with screening and rapid testing alongside.
Pharmacy and referral
Patients collect prescribed medication free of charge; those needing further care are documented and referred.
Close and debrief
We work until the last patient who arrived has been seen, then review what worked and what to change next time.
Volunteering: common questions
Do I need to be a licensed medical professional to volunteer?
Will I be asked to work outside my scope of practice?
How much time does volunteering take?
Do volunteers get paid, or have expenses covered?
I am a Cameroonian health professional living abroad. Can I take part?
Can students or trainees volunteer?
What should I bring on campaign day?
Volunteer application
Tell us your profession, your registration status and where you can travel, and we will contact you when we are planning a campaign you can reach.
Your information
We use what you send only to plan campaigns and contact you about volunteering. We do not sell or share volunteer details with third parties.
Registration and licence numbers are collected so that we can verify clinical volunteers before they see patients.
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