Empower Union Santa Fe Project Completed!
MEDLIFE is thrilled to announce that the Empower Union Santa Fe Project has been funded and completed. Union Santa Fe is a community located high in the hills of…
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Earthquake in Ecuador Update
Five days after the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Ecuador on April sixteenth, the death toll has risen to 570, along with 7000 injured, 2000 buildings damaged and 24,000 survivors…
Devastating Earthquake Rocks Ecuador
From a Mobile Clinic near Esmeraldas in March 2016 before the earthquake. Saturday April 16, 2016 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the central coast of Ecuador near Muisne. Over…
50:50 Campaign Spotlight: Maximilieno Cedeno
Maximilieno Cedeno did a 50:50 campaign to raise money for his 2016 trip to Esmereldas, Ecuador. Here is what he had to say about running a fundraiser and about…
A Long Road to Recovery for Maura
It was an unremarkable day. Maura was driving her Moto-taxi up the steep dirt roads of Villa Maria Trufino in Lima, Peru, with her son and his teacher in the…
Emergencies at Clinic: Isabel Morocho
During spring Mobile Clinic season MEDLIFE travelled to many extremely remote indigenous Andean communities in Peru and Ecuador, which are often several hours away from a hospital. When a Mobile Clinic…
Patient Stories from a day in a Riobamba Mobile Clinic
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…
Treating Malaria in Tanzania
In Kilimanjaro, Tanzania a visibly underweight one-year old girl named Nance Mungure was brought into our mobile clinic in January of 2016. Her mother carried her on foot for an…
50:50 Campaign Spotlight: Michelle Millions
Congratulations to Michelle Millions from McGill University, who raised $412 in her 50:50 campaign. This is what she had to say about her trip to Esmereldas Ecuador and about running…
BIO-SAND FILTERS IN TANZANIA: APRIL GULOTTI’S JOURNAL
How is it that 840,000 people worldwide die each year from a water-borne illness? Twice the population of the United States lives without access to water! I found myself sitting…
50:50 CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: Tia Wilson
Spring Mobile Clinics have just started and several students have been fundraising through the 50:50 campaign. This is one of the students who was working in the clinic. Her name is…
People and communities around Esmeraldas
Hillside in Tabiazo, the town where this volunteer group did project and the site of many other MEDLIFE projects. A few thousand people live in this small agricultural community,…