Our Volunteer Team

CNIS is dependent upon the help and devotion of our skilled and diverse volunteers, without whom our work would not be possible. Their contribution in Canada and overseas fuel the ability for CNIS to continue and developing our programs in Africa-and beyond. CNIS provides effective, real-world training and information to African medical students and surgeons, allowing them to better cope with the often harsh realities they find themselves in – undertrained, understaffed, incomplete medical equipment, overworked, dealing with obstetrical complications and injuries at epidemic levels.

Whether you help us translate or edit manuals, program our web sites, sew surgical simulators, raise funds and awareness or teach overseas, your volunteer work with CNIS will be truly life-saving!

Meet Our Volunteers

: Alida Fernhout, RN and volunteer Obstetrics model maker

: Alida making obsterics models from pet carriers at CNIS office

: Chan Jung Kim, student and CNIS volunteer artist and flash designer

: Dr. Bill Nelems, surgeon and CNIS volunteer

: Dr. Gary O’Connor, surgeon and CNIS volunteer teaching in Zambia

: Elaine Gibson and Ted Marchant, world traveler and CNIS volunteer editor and photographer

: Emily Chow Pharmacist and CNIS volunteer African Injury researcher

: Eva Chau, ‘mom,’ event volunteer and pyramid builder

: Hamsah Hussain, pre-med student and CNIS event volunteer

: Josephine, mom of Cédrine & Nicolas, CNIS African injury DataBase coordinator and event volunteer

: Kelowna Team in Zambia

: Kim Lucas, student and member of the CNIS volunteer web site team

: Maureen Olesen, professional translator and volunteer CNIS French surgical manual translator

: Pet carrier turned into obstetrics model

: Rachelle Rasolofo-Czerwinski Jewelry designer and African Market volunteer

: Sanjiv Khangura, Clinical Pharmacist and volunteer AIDB researcher

: Silvana Rusan, graphic designer and CNIS design volunteer

: Angela Wu Hsui-Man, graphic designer and Salama Safari graphics volunteer

: Dr. Lorraine Woolford, obstetrician and CNIS volunteer obstetrics teacher in Rwanda & Uganda

: Dr. Jan Christilaw, President of BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre and volunteer obstetrics teacher

: Dr. Abebech D’Aero, CNIS event volunteer

: Dr. Zoe Parr, surgeon and volunteer surgical skills teacher in Ethiopia

: Dr. Robin Fairfull-Smitch, surgeon and volunteer surgical skills instructor in Tanzania

: Dr. Gwen Hollaar, surgeon and surgical skills instructor, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia

: Anna Kakiziba, legal secretary and CNIS event volunteer

: Sini, Daya, Khalimah, Shayo, Maria, Oskar and Hana, 2009 African Market volunteers

: Maria, our happiest CNIS event volunteer

: Charlene Wells, CNIS event volunteer

: Dr. Vincent Echavé, surgeon and volunteer surgical skills teacher, Mali

: Dr. Ghee Hwang, surgeon and volunteer surgical skills teacher, Uganda

: Genelle Leifso, RN and CNIS volunteer nursing manual author

: Hector Aragon, business owner and CNIS volunteer photographer

: Melissa Aragon, mother of Sofia, business owner, pre-med student and CNIS event volunteer

: Drs François Couturier and Vincent Echavé, ESS teachers, Mali

: Tivoli motion picture caterers and CNIS volunteer cooks

: Andrea and Lorraine Ludwig, mother and daughter CNIS event volunteers

: Beverly McEwan, educator and CNIS volunteer MC

: The 3 Iranian Sopranos, CNIS volunteer performers

: Esther Kang (left), research coordinator and CNIS event volunteer

: Milena Semproni, hospital admitting clerk and volunteer obstetrics model maker

: Siham Zerhouni Abdouh (left), surgical resident and CNIS event and AIDB volunteer

: Dr. Paul Moroz and wife, Dr. Clare Schnurr, on top of Kilimanjaro before teaching ESS in Tanzania

: Dave Arthur, web designer and CNIS web design volunteer

Want to get involved? Visit our Volunteer page.