Meet the Patient: Isai
Marica and her son Isai. Neither Marica Bacillio Lozano nor her Mother have ever lived somewhere they owned. They have always had to rent small…
MEDLIFE Stories
MEDLIFE Holds PAP Smear Result Educational Workshop
On Friday 9th September, we held our first PAP smear educational workshop. MEDLIFE has been carrying out PAP smears to test for cervical cancer since some of our earliest clinics.…
Local Solutions to Anemia in Lima, Peru
Theresa with all of her ingredients, ready to give the nutricion workshop. According to the World Health Organization, iron deficiency is the most common and…
MEDLIFE’s Social Housing Project
Over the last few decades, Peru has seen mass migration into Lima which has led to huge numbers of people gaining land through squatters rights and setting up unstable, poorly…
MEDLIFE Completes Bathroom Projects in Earthquake Aftermath
In August 2016 MEDLIFE Ecuador completed two bathroom projects as part of ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Jama, Ecuador, an area that very affected by the earthquake, but that did…
Foundations For A Future: Kirua Campaign
Over the next few months, MEDLIFE staff, interns and chapters all over the world will be working to fundraise for Kirua Schoolhouse in Tanzania. MEDLIFE discovered the school in August…
Intern Journal: Alison Bradley
Two years ago I volunteered at a MEDLIFE mobile clinic, hauling cement with sixty other University of Michigan students, to help build a staircase in the community of 22 de…
Meet the Year-long Interns 2016-2017 2
Name: David Jetha Hometown: Orlando, FL School: University of Central Florida/ University of Florida Major: Biology B.S. and Anthropology B.A. How I got involved with MEDLIFE: Initially,…
2015-16 School Year Mobile Clinic Recap
MEDLIFE finished the last of the 2015-2016 school year with the last summer clinics this August! It was an amazing year, and with the help of our chapters we were…
Meet the Year-long Interns 2016-2017 I
Name: Allie Krugman Hometown: Newport Beach, CA School: Claremont McKenna College Major: International Relations with Human Rights Sequence How I got involved with MEDLIFE: I first…
Taking Action Against Gender Violence in Peru
“The day I remember most clearly was the day he caused this infection†Catalina Bailon explained in an interview about her experience with gender violence. She is referring to the…
An interview with MEDLIFE nurse Mercedes Olave
This week we interviewed Mercedes Olave, who has been working with MEDLIFE since May 2016 as a MEDLIFE nurse in Cusco, Peru. Why did you choose to work…