A new staircase for Llinllin Pucara
From the MEDLIFE office in Riobamba, Ecuador, we took a taxi to the bus station and a 1-hour bus to Columbe, another city near Riobamba, where MEDLIFE has held several…
Rosali Vela
50:50 CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: Sarah Pisula
Winter Mobile Clinics have just started and several students have been fundraising through the 50:50 campaign. This is one of the students who is working in the clinic. Her name is…
50:50 CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: Cole Davidson
Winter Mobile Clinics have just started and several students have been fundraising through the 50:50 campaign. This is one of the students who is working in the clinic. His name is…
Intern Journal: Anna Folz
“The Two Most Important Days in your Life are the Day You Are Born and the Day You Find Out Why” – Mark Twain MEDLIFE means different things to…
Night Meetings to Get Ready for Clinic Season!
On Friday Dec. 11 MEDLIFE held night meetings to prepare for the upcoming clinic season and check on projects. First we went to check on the Empower Union Santa…
MEDLIFE Year in Review
2015 was a great year for MEDLIFE, take a look at some of the many great things we were able to accomplish together this year! A huge…
EcoGardens in Via El Salvador
The hills around Lima where MEDLIFE works are arid and desert like. Access to healthy food like fresh produce is scarce for most residents. When a community in Via El…
MEDLIFE Future Project: Urucancha
Each group of volunteer affairs interns takes on a project of their choosing along with their personal projects. This group of year-long interns…
Fuel Efficient Stoves
Imagine walking into your kitchen, the place where you keep all your food, where you cook and where your children and family “hang outâ€. You walk into this area…
The Union Santa Fe Wawawasi is Open!
The day of the Wawawasi (daycare in Quechua) inauguration in Union Santa Fe was dark and gloomy, the community appeared to be stuck inside a cloud, the air inside turned foul…
Intern Journal: Nick Bettencourt
When I think back on my first few months working with MEDLIFE, some experiences stick out more than the rest. Experiences that challenged me in new ways, or…
Llin Llin Photo Gallery
In October 2015 MEDLIFE completed a security wall project in Llin-Llin, a community in the Ecuadorian Andes. The large and understaffed school was having trouble controlling the flow of students…