Each time I passed Elia, I noted her friendly smile and eventually stopped for brief conversation. Her warm expression of support along with her calm and rooted demeanor, immediately melted my stress away.

Today marks the start of back-to-back mission trips for Solidarity Bridge. Our multi-specialty mission team has just arrived in Punata, Bolivia, and next week, a general surgery mission team will be working in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Each of us at Solidarity Bridge is called to dream and believe that what has been done to date does not limit what is doable in time... This happens when we, the communities of Solidarity Bridge and Puente de Solidaridad, strive to live the conviction that, as a human family, we are one - somos uno.

What better time to introduce new staff than Springtime! You’d never know by our fast moving medical programs, events, mailings and office operations that we’ve had staff transitions. But in the past 12 months we said goodbye to four Solidarity Bridge staff members who either retired, returned to graduate school or moved on to a larger job opportunity. Thank you, Juan Lorenzo and Sarah Hinojosa, Kira Foken, and Mara O'Brien for your loyal service and enormous contributions over many years.

An end of year summary on some amazing things accomplished by the Solidarity Bridge community in 2015!

Leonardo underwent two heart surgeries at the tender ages of 7 and 14 months. See what this four-year-old is up to now, and read his mother’s account of how the Solidarity Bridge Heart Program turned his fate around.

Through this blog, we invite you along on these visits into the homes of some of our patients. We are grateful for their open doors!

The Mobile Unit consists of a portable laparoscopic tower and anesthesia machine and other supplies and instruments transported to and reassembled at provincial hospitals. The purpose of the Mobile Unit is to place our general surgery services within the reach of the patients who most need them.

A final installment of our blog series dedicated to introducing a few of Solidarity Bridge’s key Bolivian medical partners. This partner story takes us to the field of Neurosurgery, where we are blessed to work alongside the best surgical talents in Bolivia!

So how does Solidarity Bridge find local surgeons to work with in Bolivia? Who are they?

What does it mean to have a container with $1.8 million in medical equipment and supplies officially released?