On Building a Bathroom
Luis and I took a short bus ride from Riobamba. The rhythmic rocking of the behemoths they call buses here was still enough to induce both of us into…
MEDLIFE Stories
One Billion+ Campaign Tour Wraps Up: Updates from Georgia
After eight weeks on the road across the United States and Canada, today marks the last day of MEDLIFE’s One Billion+ Campaign Tour! Juan finished up his last week and…
New School Project To Benefit Families of Galte Yaguachi
At 9 a.m., PJ, Luis and I crammed into a a dusty red pick-up truck. An hour and a half later, we arrived in Galte Yaguachi, an indigenous community swallowed…
MEDLIFE Role Models: Meet Maria
Maria Chavez, 32, has worked for MEDLIFE Ecuador for five years. She treats her role as a Follow-Up Patient Coordinator like she is raising a child. She nurtures her connections,…
Project Update: Wawa Wasi
We are slowly but surely making progress on our very first Wawa Wasi daycare center in Lima, Peru, thanks to the help of MEDLIFE chapters and supporters around…
50:50 Campaign Update: Fundraising Toward a New Hygiene Project
Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Yasmina Zoghbi is currently a student at the University of Miami. Yasmina first heard about MEDLIFE from fellow students during her freshman year of…
University of Michigan Students Fundraise With A 5K Run
This weekend, University of Michigan students ran a 5K race through a park in Ann Arbor, raising around $450 for the MEDLIFE Project Fund. Although the MEDLIFE chapter at the…
Passing Time: A Pre-Op Profile of Jose Francisco
Rachel Hoffman is a year-round media intern based in Riobamba, Ecudaor. Read her first piece on a special patient, Jose Gaucho, below: The entrance of Hospital Provincial General Docente…
One Billion+ Campaign Tour UPDATE: Oct. 26, 2012
Last week, our two remaining presenters traveled hundreds of miles across the U.S. and Canada to spread word about our mission. Here are some quick updates and photos from…
Student Chapters Volunteer at Home by Serving, Building, Running
MEDLIFE’s mission of providing access to medicine, education and development to everyone may be based in Latin America, but it doesn’t end there. One of the most important things that…
Meet the Interns: Inge
Our first Peruvian intern has begun her week at the MEDLIFE offices in Lima. Ingeborg Lopez-Torres, or Inge as she prefers to be called, is a recent graduate of the…
Fall Fundraising Highlights
This month, we asked our supporters to direct their fundraising efforts to a very special project: our Wawa Wasi daycare center in Lima, Peru — and you came through! Here…