Stair Construction Projects

Last Friday the MEDLIFE summer interns joined the community members of Union de Santa Fe to inaugurate the completion of a new staircase. Not only will this provide safe and…

Our Staircase Construction Projects were inspired by the story of a MEDLIFE patient, Chais Pipa. Chais fell down the steep hillside that leads to her home, prompting a premature birth…

Nadine Heredia is a community in Lima, Peru established in 2012. MEDLIFE has been working in Nadine since its founding and this week we will complete our eight staircase project.   Nadine Heredia Community.   …

 MEDLIFE recently completed our second of two massive staircases in Ecuador, drastically improving access to the community of Llinllin Santa Fe. The path is used by the communities school children to…

MEDLIFE has completed over 207 projects in Peru and 74 in Ecuador. Many of these projects are either Stair Cases or Hygiene projects, both of which have been a core…

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…

Director of MED programs Carlos Benavides stood on a steep dirt path in Paraiso, a community where MEDLIFE has never done a project before. It was daytime and the deplorable…

The year-long MEDLIFE interns and the members of the community “33B” worked together last week on a new staircase that will benefit more than 300 people. Follow the story below:…

From left: interns Cristina Salvador, Ashlan Bishop, Hailey Bossio and Eleanor Dickens, with community leader Soledad breaking the champagne bottle. As a summer intern for MEDLIFE, I’ve had the…

We recently wrote to you here about the artistic addition to a new staircase project in Buena Vista contributed by a community member, Ernesto. Last week, we were back to…

Photo by Wim BoudenFrom a distance, this MEDLIFE staircase high in the hills of Pamplona looks much like all the others. But take a closer look and you’ll see this…