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…
Community members gathered at a nighttime meeting in Villa Maria del Triunfo. Photo by Benjamin Ostrander The number of communities in need of staircases and other infrastructure projects in…
We encountered 5-year old Jimena Sarango in the hills of Laderas Nueva Esperanza one afternoon playing hopscotch she had scratched into the dirt. Her father Reynaldo hacked away at…
Tim Zeitler, currently studying for his MA in architecture at Harvard, came to Lima last summer to help MEDLIFE out with our growing community development program, which aims to treat…
MEDLIFE interns Eleanor Dickens and Lara Chambers have initiated a fundraising campaign to help Adela start a business to sell her handmade bags and purses. Donate now to help them…
This week, the MEDLIFE interns are working on building a new staircase with the community of Jesus Obrero in Villa Maria de Triunfo. Intern Lara Chambers, a student from the…
On the third day of clinic in Tena, Ecuador, an older woman walked in to the doctors’ station with a crying child. The little girl’s name is Daniela Belen…
MEDLIFE summer intern Karolien Celie, a student at the University of York in the UK, writes about her first visit to the field in Lima: From left: Carlos Benavides, followup patient…
A few months ago, MEDLIFE intern Nandini Razdan wrote here about her experience visiting a follow-up patient in Villa El Salvador named Eduardo Espinoza. Due to brain damage caused…
This latest batch of MEDLIFE summer interns comes to us from all over the world! Learn more about them in the second edition of Meet the Interns: …
Last week, MEDLIFE inaugurated our 100th community development project: a sanitary restroom for a preschool in San Sebastian de Wayrayaku, Muyuna, Tena, Ecuador. The school is a Centro Infantil…
Dr. Angie Vidal (left) and Yovana Taipe When we first met Yovana Taipe at a Mobile Clinic in Villa El Salvador, she seemed shy and serious, reluctant to smile.…
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