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…
Community Profiles
The Wall of Shame In Lima
In the hills, high above the city center of Lima, Peru, sits the community of Nadine Heredia. One of Lima’s Pueblos Jovenes, or young towns, people began to settle in…
Community Organizer Profile: Edomia Paucarcaja
Edomia Poma Pallcarcajo works in the comedor in the communidad of El Jardines in San Juan De Miraflores to support her family, serving up nutritious, cheap government subsized meals…
Ecuador Earthquake Relief Fund
Two weeks ago, MEDLIFE doctors, nurses and clinic leaders made the 3 hour journey from the city of Esmeraldas to the small, isolated community of Canalon in the province of…
People and communities around Esmeraldas
Hillside in Tabiazo, the town where this volunteer group did project and the site of many other MEDLIFE projects. A few thousand people live in this small agricultural community,…