Empower Union Santa Fe Project Completed!
MEDLIFE is thrilled to announce that the Empower Union Santa Fe Project has been funded and completed. Union Santa Fe is a community located high in the hills of…
MEDLIFE Project Fund Projects
Devastating Earthquake Rocks Ecuador
From a Mobile Clinic near Esmeraldas in March 2016 before the earthquake. Saturday April 16, 2016 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the central coast of Ecuador near Muisne. Over…
Educational Workshop Talleres Artesanales
In Febuary 2016 MEDLIFE gave an educational workshop in Talleres Artisenales, a new community for MEDLIFE, located in Pamplona Alta. Year-long interns and local medical staff worked together to give…
Former Intern Donates Toys to WaWawasi
Former media intern Daniela Martes, along with mobile clinic volunteers from Cusco and Lima, donated toys to the Wawawasi in Union Santa Fe. We delivered them to the Wawawasi in…
Cocinas Mejoradas Photo Blog
MEDLIFE completed our first round of fuel efficient stove projects in Yuncaypata during the Winter Mobile Clinic season. Over the span of two week-long volunteer trips 18…
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…
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…
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…
A Healthier Home for Debora
Debora Machuca is a bubbly two-year old who suffers from severed bowel issues due to intestinal complications caused by her premature birth. Despite all of this, Debora is a sweet, funny and…