🇩🇿 ESC Volunteering in Algeria 🏥 Humanitarian Health Support in Sahrawi Refugee Camps with Médicos del Mundo 🤝

The healthcare system in the Sahrawi refugee camps is managed entirely by the refugees themselves — and it depends on humanitarian partners to survive. This ESC placement puts you inside that system, working with one of the most respected humanitarian medical organisations in the world, in one of the most complex and underreported humanitarian contexts on the planet.

Médicos del Mundo is looking for a volunteer to support and monitor health projects in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. This is a specialist role for someone with a healthcare or public health background — and the motivation to work in a demanding, remote, and genuinely impactful humanitarian environment.

What Is This Role About?

The Sahrawi Health Authorities manage their own healthcare system entirely — a remarkable achievement under extraordinary conditions. Médicos del Mundo provides technical and financial support to maintain health services, supply medicines and medical equipment, and ensure programmes meet national and international standards. As a volunteer, you will be embedded in that support structure — working across health information systems, training, monitoring, and community-level health promotion.

Activities

📋 Supporting the implementation of health protocols and procedures established by MdM

📊 Recording activities and assisting in data collection for the programme’s health information system

📝 Collaborating in the preparation of periodic activity reports

🎓 Reviewing the content of training sessions for healthcare staff

🔍 Reviewing health determinants across the programme

🏘️ Accompanying the technical team in health promotion and awareness-raising activities at the community level

💊 Supporting the monitoring of training processes and the implementation of the SAGASTOCK Pharmacy application

Who Should Apply?

This is a specialist placement with a detailed and specific profile. Both professional qualifications and personal competencies matter here.

Professional Profile

🔹 Healthcare and/or public health professional — this is a core requirement

🔹 Certifications or training in inventory management or information systems highly preferred

🔹 Experience in humanitarian contexts is desirable

🔹 Strong alignment with Médicos del Mundo’s work, values, and mission

🔹 Knowledge of the Sahrawi refugee camp context, the Maghreb, or Arab or Muslim communities is a plus

🔹 High level of Spanish is essential — knowledge of Arabic, English, and/or French is desirable

Competency Profile

🔹 Negotiation skills and ability to build institutional relationships

🔹 Teaching and communication skills

🔹 Ability to adapt to demanding living and working conditions

🔹 Organisational skills, adaptability, and teamwork

🔹 Dynamism, proactivity, and flexibility

🔹 Rigour and autonomy in work

🔹 Empathy and diplomatic skills — intercultural relationship skills essential

Eligibility

🔹 Age: 18 to 35 years old

🔹 Residency: Must reside in an eligible country (EU Member State, North Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Turkey)

🔹 Must have completed the compulsory Humanitarian Aid Volunteering training

🔹 Must not have participated before in individual Humanitarian Aid Volunteering

🔹 When combined with any previous EU volunteering, total duration cannot exceed 12 months

Training & Support

🏥 Briefings and training at MdM headquarters in Madrid with departments related to the mission and the position — before deployment

💻 Mandatory online training on environmental approaches before starting field work

🎓 Training in humanitarian action, security, gender, and psychosocial support during the placement

📚 Training resources provided to continue learning throughout the service period

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Accommodation & Practical Details

🏠 Volunteer stays in the MdM house in the Protocol — accommodation fully covered for the duration of the placement

🚗 Movement outside the Protocol is limited and done in an official MdM car — the atmosphere in the Protocol is described as calm

💶 Monthly subsistence allowance of €522 to cover food and other personal expenses

📍 Work takes place in the MdM office in the Protocol and in the office located at the Ministry of Health

Activity Details

📅 Activity Period: 20 May 2026 – 10 December 2026

📍 Location: Ministerio de Salud Pública Saharaui, Rabouni / Chahid AlHafed, Algeria

👤 Activity Type: Individual Volunteering

🏷️ Project Code: 2024-1-EACEA-VOLUN-101191864

Deadline

⏰ 03 May 2026

Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇷🇴 Romania 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇹🇷 Türkiye

Apply

🔗 https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51288_en

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