Working hand in hand with Ecuador Communities
The MEDLIFE Ecuador staff is a small group of women, but they work day in and day out to provide quality healthcare, education, and development to the communities surrounding Riobamba…
Community Profiles
A profile of our Lima Communities
This information is based on a sampling of communities around Lima, Peru that hosted MEDLIFE Mobile Clinics between December – January 2017-2018. Since MEDLIFE clinics take place during…
MEDLIFE Staff & Volunteers hosted a Chocolatada in Cusco, Peru!
Last week, our first group of MEDLIFE volunteers for the winter season helped to host a Chocolatada at the community of Secsencalla, located in the district of Andahuaylillas outside of…
Nicolas de Pierola: Waiting, Forgotten and Thirsty.
Carmen Galanza has lived in Nicolas Pierola for twenty years. She never expected to see a disaster the magnitude of the Huaycos, a flood of mud and water, that…
The Wall of Shame separating the rich and poor of Lima
In the hills, high above the city center of Lima, Peru, sits the community of Nadine. One of Lima’s Pueblos Jovenes, or young towns, people began to settle in the…
