Love Your Neighbor: A Friendship in Photos 5 min Read At Medical Teams, one of the best parts of our work is seeing the ways people connect because of our work. Sometimes that means they share in the simple dignity and joy of receiving health care, but often, deeper relationships…
Love a Neighbor Like Naylin 6 min Read When Naylin came to Colombia nearly 6 years ago, she felt lonely and isolated. Though her decision was motivated by her desire to keep her family healthy, trying to make a new life in a new country without a network…
Love Your Neighbor Like Margri Does 8 min Read At Medical Teams, we believe that loving our neighbors — near or far — is the way forward toward a healthier world. That’s why our guiding scripture is Luke 10:27: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and…
After Years of Despair, A Syrian Woman Finds Her Purpose 6 min Read Shaza is a young Syrian woman. Seven years ago, her life turned upside down. War destroyed her home and extinguished her dreams.
He Hid in a Latrine. Now He’s a Humanitarian. 5 min Read Redwan lived in a small village in Myanmar with his wife, two children and extended family. On a quiet morning in 2017, they heard gunshots nearby and ran out of their home to witness a slaughter. The entire village —…
No Other Option: Morjan’s Story 4 min Read “We had no choice – they left us no options. They were chopping necks. They were raping women. We had to leave.” Morjan tells of her escape to Bangladesh.
Called to Serve, Racheal Puts Love Into Action 5 min Read I had the privilege of meeting Racheal, a Medical Teams International Program Manager in Uganda, a few months ago. Despite being 8,500 miles apart and chatting over a video call, we bonded quickly. We were around the same age and…
Storms Impact Refugees in Lebanon 2 min Read Faced with howling wind and fierce rain, Halima’s family of 16 squeezed into the only place free of rising flood waters — a tiny room in the back of their makeshift shelter.
Rasha Brings Hope to Her Settlement 4 min Read “Mom, we’re dying – we’re dying, mom!” All she could do was stand stone-footed, unable to move.
Hope Renewed for Community Health Worker Yasmin 2 min Read Unlike the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who recently crossed the border, Yasmin has spent her entire life in a refugee camp in Bangladesh…
Sending Medicines when Hospitals are Gone. 2 min Read The injured are left without medicines or supplies, and many who flee to safer places face impossibly expensive or nonexistent medical care…
Filled with Fear, Eh Wah Knew Where to Turn for Help. 3 min Read Imagine for a moment that you are in desperate need of medical care, but the only care available to you is either too far away or too expensive…