Amy Gelfand

“Fun, adventure, and new friendships are always part of the MEDICO experience. Volunteering with MEDICO is an opportunity to do great work with friends from previous trips as well as strangers who quickly become new friends. What gets accomplished in just a few days by a small group of people who have come together with […]

We joined this trip just to add another adventure on our list and thinking that we will help people in need. But after our trip we realized that we have gained a thousand times more than our ability to give. We were just amazed how each and every one of the team members genuinely cared […]

Someone said my trip to Honduras was serendipitous. I could not agree more. By easy accident I stepped into a new life perspective – gratefulness. The opportunity to serve the community in Copan changed my life perspective. I am grateful for small niceties I take for granted – the ease of a life I once […]

As written by volunteer/trainer Mike DeLeo MEDICO’s mission sometimes reaches beyond its general medical brigades. MEDICO is about making lives better in big and small ways. MEDICO is about saving lives. Read about MEDICO’S recent mission of training firefighters whose goal is to provide protection for their community. The City of Gracias, Lempira, Honduras, is […]