Intern Journal: Anna Folz
“The Two Most Important Days in your Life are the Day You Are Born and the Day You Find Out Why” – Mark Twain MEDLIFE means different things to…
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Night Meetings to Get Ready for Clinic Season!
On Friday Dec. 11 MEDLIFE held night meetings to prepare for the upcoming clinic season and check on projects. First we went to check on the Empower Union Santa…
MEDLIFE Year in Review
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…
EcoGardens in Via El Salvador
The hills around Lima where MEDLIFE works are arid and desert like. Access to healthy food like fresh produce is scarce for most residents. When a community in Via El…
MEDLIFE Future Project: Urucancha
Each group of volunteer affairs interns takes on a project of their choosing along with their personal projects. This group of year-long interns…
Fuel Efficient Stoves
Imagine walking into your kitchen, the place where you keep all your food, where you cook and where your children and family “hang outâ€. You walk into this area…
The Union Santa Fe Wawawasi is Open!
The day of the Wawawasi (daycare in Quechua) inauguration in Union Santa Fe was dark and gloomy, the community appeared to be stuck inside a cloud, the air inside turned foul…
Intern Journal: Nick Bettencourt
When I think back on my first few months working with MEDLIFE, some experiences stick out more than the rest. Experiences that challenged me in new ways, or…
Llin Llin Photo Gallery
In October 2015 MEDLIFE completed a security wall project in Llin-Llin, a community in the Ecuadorian Andes. The large and understaffed school was having trouble controlling the flow of students…
Meet the Patient: Eulogio Orccotma
Eulogio Orccotoma lay in bed, staring at the translucent ceiling that bled dreamy yellow light into the room. He listened to cumbia on the radio as his son, Yuri…
Sticking With Patients
It’s the middle of November in Lima, summer is just around the corner. For the first time in weeks the sky was blue and the sun was baking the vast…
Meet the Interns: Matt and Will
Two more interns joined our communications team this season: Name: Matthew Schueller Hometown: Albany Oregon School: Seattle Pacific University How I got involved with MEDLIFE: There was a…