Service Learning Trips

Last week was the start of MEDLIFE’s spring clinic season with 41 volunteers from Queen’s and Laurentian Universities of Ontario, Canada. Over the course of 4 days of clinics, the volunteers…

When running mobile clinics, MEDLIFE aims to provide people from low income communities with primary health care. Cost is a problem in access to health care, but just as important…

The past week, MEDLIFE Volunteers and medical professionals from Peru visited neighborhoods around Lima for mobile clinics. Students from Boston College, Claremont College, Mount Saint Mary College, Cornell, Wisconsin, UC…

Last week, MEDLIFE, helped to host a Chocolatada at the Señor de Muruhuay School in Lima. A Cholotada is traditional Christmas celebration, popular in Peru, where a Hot Cocoa-like drink…

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…

In 2002, optometrist Dr. Sammy Rose and engineer Holland Kendall designed and created an optical set-up which could analyse a person’s vision.  The machine works with a computer programme to…

 You never know what you are going to find when you roll up to a new community with a bus full of medical supplies for a MEDLIFE Mobile Clinic. This…

One day, when MEDLIFE photographer Edward Doherty was shooting photos at a Mobile Clinic, the two girls, Fernanda (six years old)  and Adriana (four years old) on the left…

   2015 was a great year for MEDLIFE, take a look at some of the many great things we were able to accomplish together this year! A huge…

MEDLIFE has a very rounded vision of development- we recognise one cannot simply eradicate poverty through one avenue alone, offering solely medical treatment for example. Our mission is focused…

Last week, our student volunteers in Lima had the opportunity to hear about issues such as poverty and public health in Peru through the eyes of a promient public figure.…

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.…