Volunteer Info

An invitation and appeal to international dental and medical professionals to consider traveling to one of the most magnificently beautiful destinations in the world to bring urgently needed quality health care to it’s population.

We have the tools, you have the skill and Ladakh has the need.
Come, heal, explore and enjoy.

Stay in comfortable accommodations

Explore the fascinating cultural history

Trek in the magnificent Himalayas

Heal children who have never had dental or medical care

Quid Pro Quo

Certified dental and medical professionals who volunteer to come to Ladakh and contribute their skills toward the goal of providing urgent needed health care to the hundreds of children of Lamdon School will gratefully be provided the following:
Meals and accomodation
Tours of the Indus river valley accompanied by Buddhist scholars
Upon completion of your work, I will be happy to offer an adventure of exploration of this magnificent Himalayan landscape. We can discuss the options of a full service trek, overland mountain bike ride or more extensive cultural discovery tours

Bill Kite
Project Coordinator

All those who contact us with an interest in volunteering or just wanting to know more about The Himalayan Health Project will be sent a comprehensive, 12 page PDF file that outlines our specific goals for 2015.

All those associated with The Himalayan Vision Project are grateful for the tireless and heroic efforts of the teams of international vision health care physicians and optometrists who have brought vastly improved quality of life to countless men, women and children of Ladakh over the past 7 years.
Our objectives and capabilities have taken a quantum leap forward by virtue of an alliance formed with the prestigious LV Prasad Eye Institute located in Hyderabad. This invaluable collaboration was made possible by the friendship and shared ideals of one of the world's most renowned and admired cornea and stem cell specialists, Dr Virender Sangwan. Dr Sangwan came to the aid of a Ladakhi police officer who was suffering from an extremely serious eye condition and through the successful treatment of that very fortunate individual has become a friend and inspiration to us all.
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Dr Quek Swee Chong
MBBCh, BAO (Dublin) MRCOG (UK) FAMS (Singapore)
Dr Quek Swee Chong is a specialist in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the ACS Clinic for Women Gleneagles Medical Centre. He was formerly Senior Consultant & Head, Pre-invasive Disease & Screening Unit, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital. He serves on the board of the International Federation of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology. A former president of the Society of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology of Singapore, he now sits on the present council.
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Fully functional humanitarian health care
for the people of Ladakh.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama
blessing the Lamdon Clinic

The Lamdon Clinic now serves as "Basecamp" for our ambitious goal of bringing world class dental, vision and women's health care to the people of Ladakh. Not only will we continue to offer cost free treatments for all who come to our doors, but we will now also be sending mobile screening teams of medical professionals to drive or hike to the remotest villages and settlements in the Indus, Nubra and Zanskar Valley regions of Ladakh to educate, examine and if necessary transport patients who need treatment and rehabilitation back to our main clinic complex in Leh.
We draw our guidance from the compassionate inspiration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama who advocates doing all that is possible for those needlessly suffering or deprived of their basic human right of adequate medical care regardless of their religious loyalties, gender, citizenship or financial means.
We were greatly honored when His Holiness the Dalai Lama came to our clinic in 2012 and blessed it's capabilities and aspirations.

Coverage shown on Tibet Television network of His Holiness blessing the Lamdon Clinic

Julley everyone! I'm Dr Marie Nordstrom, the resident dentist at the Himalayan Dental Project Clinic in Leh, Ladakh. Two years ago I was working at a humanitarian dental clinic in Cambodia. When it was time to move on I was browsing around on the internet searching for another inspirational opportunity where I could volunteer my dental abilities and I came across the Himalayan Dental Project. I sent off an email expressing my interest to volunteer and within a few hours I had a reply from the project coordinator Bill Kite inviting me to join the the clinic team in Ladakh. After his first email I instinctively had a feeling that this would turn into something really significant and decided to book my flight to India and then up to Ladakh. A short time later I found myself at more than 3,500m above sea level in the Himalayas with spectacular mountain views
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