A Slide for the Kiura School
The old slide. When Grant Schmidt visited this school in Kiura on a MEDLIFE volunteer trip with Miami University, he knew they could do more than just…
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Water Tanks in Laderas Completed
In March of 2017 MEDLIFE completed our largest water project yet in the community of Laderas de Nueva Esperanza, in Lima Peru. The three water tanks will…
Nicolas de Pierola: Waiting, Forgotten and Thirsty.
Carmen Galanza has lived in Nicolas Pierola for twenty years. She never expected to see a disaster the magnitude of the Huaycos, a flood of mud and water, that…
Water for Communties Isolated by Landslides.
Las Brisas de California, next to the huge drainage gorge carved by the floods. When Rosio’s daughter began to panic and tell her she was certain,…
MEDLIFE visits areas affected by flooding
Historic flooding and mudslides have hit Peru bringing the worst destruction from floods in two decades. An estimated 70,000 people have been displaced from their homes along with an estimated…
The Wall of Shame In Lima
In the hills, high above the city center of Lima, Peru, sits the community of Nadine Heredia. One of Lima’s Pueblos Jovenes, or young towns, people began to settle in…
MEDLIFE Doctor Spotlight: Genry Aguilar
Dr. Genry Aguilar has been working as a doctor on mobile clinics with MEDLIFE for two years now. He practices medicine where he…
Bibi’s House Completed in Tanzania
Marangu is a lush green rural Tanzanian town tucked in the shadows of the mighty Mt. Kilimanjaro. MEDLIFE conducted clinics there in 2016. Many of the…
The road to water access in Laderas de Nueva Esperanza
Water access is an issue that communities around Lima continue to face. Development in the slums of Lima happens backwards, in that people move in and then utilities like electricity…
First week of spring clinics in Lima
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…
Bringing Doctors to the Patients
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 challenge of getting to the hospital
In the weeks following MEDLIFE’s mobile clinics, nurses are busy traveling door to door to patients homes to follow up with those who need further care after the clinics. This…