MEDLIFE joins the fight against tuberculosis in Ecuador
Rosendo, Segundo, Gladys and Maria make up the group of patients who we met at Mobile Clinics in the community of La Merced del Canton Alausi in the Chimborazo province.…
MEDLIFE Stories
Patient Story: Marco Receives the Best Birthday Gift
Marco and his parents Maria and Jose Maria after his knee surgery. (Photo by Martha Chicaiza) “How old are you?” I ask Marco, who looks at me with a…
Intern Journal: Esperanza
Los pueblos jóvenes is the name given to the many shantytowns scattered throughout the sprawling city of Lima. Nueva Esperanza was the first community of its kind that I…
Support a Campaign: A better future for Jose Luis
Written by Rosali Vela and translated by Swathi Varanasi & Rachel Goldberg When Amal came on a Mobile Clinic in Lima, Peru earlier this summer, she met Jose…
Intern Journal: Pockets of Poverty
Ben and I decided to eat a sturdy lunch that day. We didn’t know what Carlos had in store for us in the field that afternoon. In the past…
Intern Journal: Inaugurating a New Staircase in Jesus Obrero
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…
Creating Partnerships in New Communities
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…
Patient Story: Jimena Sarango
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…
Design For a Better Future: Meet Tim Zeitler
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…
Summer Intern Project: Help Adela Start Her Own Business!
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…
Intern Journal: A Day of Firsts
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…
Patient Story: Daniela Chimbo
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…