One to two weeks. That's all it takes to spend part of your winter break as a medical volunteer abroad, working alongside local health teams in Peru, Ecuador, or Costa Rica.

With FIMRC's Global Health Volunteer Program (GHVP), you can shadow doctors, join home visits, teach health education to kids...

By FIMRC Team

In Alajuelita, a community just outside San José, Costa Rica, a group of women sits down together every week and talks about the things most people keep to themselves. A hard marriage. A child who's struggling. A loss that never quite healed. Memories they've carried for years without...

Prevention does not begin with an emergency.

It begins with a conversation a family member feels safe enough to have. A Health Promoter who recognizes that someone is struggling before things get worse. A caregiver who understands that their own emotional well-being matters too. A community where a...

On August 20, 1897, a British army surgeon named Ronald Ross peered through a microscope at the gastrointestinal tract of a female mosquito and found what he was looking for: the malarial parasite, unmistakable and confirming what he had suspected for years. The mosquito was the vector. The mystery ...

There are roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 living in the world today. Despite growing up in wildly different national, economic, and cultural circumstances, their underlying goals tend to be the same: dignity, real opportunity, meaningful participation, and a future wor...

A new mother in a highland community outside Huancayo has delivered her baby at home. There was no lactation consultant in the room. No postnatal nurse to check the latch. No one to answer the questions that arrive in the first hours of a newborn's life, the ones that determine whether breastfeeding...

Every 30 seconds, someone in the world dies from complications related to chronic hepatitis — including cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Not because the tools to prevent it do not exist. Effective vaccines, accurate diagnostics, curative treatments for hepatitis C, and long-term therapies for hepatitis ...

 In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded America's first volunteer fire brigade after a ship fire tore through a wharf, warehouses, and neighboring houses in Philadelphia. Twenty-six neighbors signed up. More followed.

That instinct, to organize, to show up, to solve a problem together rather than wait ...

Seventy-five years ago, after the Second World War, the world made a promise: people forced to flee have the right to seek safety and protection. It was never meant for a few. It was meant for all of us.

That promise has not been kept.

The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached ...

A woman delivers her baby in a rural health post in Bududa. There are complications. She is hemorrhaging. The nearest blood bank is hours away, and even if a vehicle were available right now, the roads make the journey uncertain.

This is not a hypothetical. It is a scenario that plays out across lo...