Our executive director shares an update from Paraguay and reflects on the need for a wide variety of resources to strengthen our mission work.

Our Gynecologic Surgery Program serves those patients who are so often overlooked, post-reproductive age women.

The humble crosses in a Bolivian cemetery inspired the start of our Pacemaker Program. Where Chagas Disease wreaks devestation, we strive to bring hope.

Dr. James (Jay) Herrmann MD, a dermatologist who has served thousands of patients on 16 mission trips to Bolivia, received Solidarity Bridge’s highest honor—the 2019 Solidarity Award—at our annual gala on May 4.

First time Solidarity Bridge missioner, Jessica Waldo, shares her experience working with Bolivian nursing counterparts at the Instituto Oncológico del Oriente Boliviano.

This is Mission. Moving forward step by step, patient by patient. Celebrating lives restored, and doing what we can to maintain hope for a future for our patients and their families.

OSMT sets off for Solidarity Bridge's second trip of 2019. The expanded team will be returning to the Cancer Institute of Eastern Bolivia in Santa Cruz for a week of surgeries and conferences.

After a week of interviews with medical staff at the Santa Bárbara Hospital in Sucre, it became clear to the Solidarity Bridge mission team that this was the right place for a long-term partnership to advance neurosurgical care. The team was impressed with the scope of the need, but also with the professionalism and commitment of the Santa Bárbara nurses and physicians who serve an incredible volume of patients in spite of significant equipment and human resource limitations.

The Solidarity Bridge team presented a proposal for a long-term, collaborative initiative with the Santa Bárbara Hospital focused on advancing neurosurgical care. Recognizing that the actual surgery procedure is just one part of the process, the proposed initiative would also seek to engage the many pre-, intra- and post-operative areas that are integral to the care of the neurosurgical patient.

The Neurosurgery Mission team will land this weekend in “La Ciudad Blanca” (the White City), which is the nickname bestowed on the city of Sucre, Bolivia, thanks to its many beautifully-preserved, white-walled, colonial-style buildings

Hungry for a taste of Bolivia? Enjoy this slideshow with recommendations from Dr. Alvaro Encinas, Solidarity Bridge board member, missioner, and Bolivian food aficionado.

“[I]n the context of today, when so many walls are being constructed in the world, how would you like to build a bridge? The bridge is being built; it's under way. How would you like to add to that, to cross that bridge and share the talents and gifts and expertise you have?” - Fr. Bob Oldershaw