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…
MEDLIFE Project Fund Projects
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…
A New Home for Ceverina
Ceverina, a 70-year-old woman in Lima, Peru, used to live alone in a deteriorating shack that could collapse inward at any moment. One of our MEDLIFE interns, Molly Trerotola, fundraised to…
RENOVATING THE COMEDOR “FE Y ESPERANZA”
We want to thank our Chapter at McGill University for their amazing support to the local comedor “Fe y Esperanza”. If you want to read more about this comedor’s story…
Helping TB Patients With Treatment Followthrough
MEDLIFE Nurse Janet pounded on the flimsy metal door to the small house and waited- No response. She tried again. Nothing. “Señor!” she yelled. “Hola Señor! Estamos con la…
Galte Yaguachi School: Photo Gallery
When we met the students and teachers from the Galte, Yagachi school in Riobamba, Ecuador, their classrooms were deteriorating. Thanks to successful fundraising campaigns led by MEDLIFE at Wayne State…