Ecuador Intern Journal: Amrita
Ecuador Summer Intern Amrita Athwal is now back in her hometown of San Diego, California after her eight weeks abroad working with MEDLIFE. Before she left, she wrote about her…
Staff and Interns
Meet the Interns: Mauricio
Florida State graduate, Mauricio Parra-Ferro, is currently interning in Lima for his summer break. Find out more about him in his interview below: How did you get involved with MEDLIFE?…
Meet the Interns: Liz
Elizabeth Haro is a MEDLIFE summer intern working out of both Riobamba and Tena, Ecuador. Learn more about Liz below! Tell us an anecdote from your experience with MEDLIFE thus…
Meet the Interns: Amrita
Amrita Athwal is one of MEDLIFE’s interns in Ecuador this summer. She is currently staying in the sierra of Riobamba and has traveled to the Amazonian Jungle of Tena for…
Peru Intern Journal: Mauricio
Mauricio Parra is a 22-year-old Colombian native who recently came down to do a summer internship for MEDLIFE in Lima, Peru. Here he writes about his first two weeks on…
Peru Intern Journal II: Carolyn
My preparation for a summer interning for MEDLIFE did not just involve figuring out how to fit three months worth of clothes into one suitcase under 50 lbs (something…
Peru Intern Journal: Carolyn
Summer Intern Carolyn Adam writes about her experience planning and delivering a presentation on nutrition in Lima, Peru: I can’t believe I have already been here in Peru for…
Meet the Interns: Carolyn
How did you get involved with MEDLIFE? Towards the end of my freshman year, two of my friends started the process of starting a chapter at UGA. I applied…
Peru Intern Journal: Eduardo
Eduardo Solorzano recounts his experience in helping first-hand to coordinate a MEDLIFE Mobile Clinic:Coming on a Mobile Clinic, students have no idea about all the preliminary work that is required…
Meet the Interns: Eduardo
Venezuela native, Eduardo Solorzano, is a two-time Mobile Clinic participant in Peru and Ecuador. Now in Lima working as a Summer Intern, he shares with us a little of his…
Peru Intern Journal: Maureen
It seems like only yesterday my plane landed at the Jorge Chavez Airport here in Lima but time has been flying by — I can’t believe it’s been…
Meet the Interns: Maureen
Maureen Nealon, affectionately referred to as “Momo” by her friends and family, is one of our four current Interns in Peru this summer. Formerly having lived in Lima for several…