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...

Every month, 72 families in Anconcito, Ecuador receive a food kit. For a household stretching a small income to feed growing kids, that kit can mean a fuller table for days.

The kits come from Toscana, a partner company that has supported FIMRC Ecuador's work in the community for eight years. And t...

By Friday afternoon, the team had seen 588 people. Five days, five neighborhoods, one fishing town on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

That number started with a question FIMRC Ecuador asks before every campaign in Anconcito: what keeps families from reaching care in the first place?

The answers are rarel...

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 Anconcito, Ecuador, chronic child malnutrition is not a statistic that lives in a report.

It shows up in a child's height at a routine screening. In the results of a cognitive assessment. In the long arc of a life shaped, before the age of five, by what the body did not receive when it needed it...

 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 ...