The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) has just completed the second and final portion of its summer 2025 volunteering program in Rwanda. In this edition, efforts focused on risk prevention, mental health, internal medicine, family members of hospital patients, adolescent mothers, AutoCAD, and construction tools, among other aspects.

2025 marks the twelfth edition of the UMH volunteering program in Rwanda, and this, its second portion, was one full month in length. Its group of volunteers taught courses on the basic principles of construction projects, and they reviewed infrastructure; they drafted occupational risk prevention projects, plans for emergencies, and for administering first aid; they provided support for mental health and internal medicine at Nemba Hospital, provided advanced training on CPR for health care staff there, and they also provided instruction on basic concepts of health and hygiene, mental health aid for family members of patients, as well as for an association of adolescent mothers.

This second group of volunteers, whose monthlong efforts covered parts of both July and August in Rwanda, concluded the work that was begun in June by the first group of volunteers. Work by the initial group addressed training on artificial intelligence tools, web design, waste management, reusable sanitary pads, communication & leadership, the female reproductive system, contraceptive methods, plus healthcare research.

The UMH international development cooperation volunteering program in Rwanda instills local participants with theoretical and practical knowledge, and then they perform development cooperation activities within the Central African country. All UMH community groups—faculty, researchers, staff, students, and alumni—are eligible to participate. This program receives funding from the Generalitat Valenciana.