Media · Volunteer Voices
Hear it from the people who showed up.
Surgeons, nurses, students, kitchen staff, first-timers. Watch the team tell you what an IMO outreach actually feels like.
In Their Own Words
Why our volunteers keep coming back.
Doctors who paid their own way. Nurses on their fifth trip. A first-time non-medical volunteer who got on a plane and changed his life. Press play.
Featured Voices
On the team. On the ground.
Dr. Larry McKenzie
Volunteer Surgeon
Dr. Jeneral Dumura Alfin
Board of Directors · Volunteer Physician
Dr. Julie
Volunteer · San Antonio, TX
Tom Weichart
Director, IMO USA · Florida Team Lead
Janny McKenzie
Board of Directors · Tulsa, Oklahoma Co-Lead
Joshua Karami
Surgical Nurse
More From the Field
Volunteers, voices, and a kitchen.
Vanessa Close
Volunteer
Dr. Mike Malave
Volunteer · Cataract & Eye Care
Sarah Salami-Adaba
Head of Kitchen Department
Ryan
Non-Medical Volunteer · First Trip 2017
IMO Volunteer Voices
Field Story · Jos, Nigeria
IMO Volunteer Voices
Field Story · Jos, Nigeria
IMO Volunteer Voices
Field Story · Jos, Nigeria
It is often challenging with the massive turnout of patients, which could be overwhelming, but nothing gives me joy like helping people. It is simply amazing.
— Dr. Larry McKenzie, Volunteer Surgeon
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More from every outreach.
We post photos and short clips from every mission week. Come along.
Be the next voice
There is room on the team.
Volunteer with us, or send the surgery in your place.