A Lenten Reflection

Through this Lenten program, together we get to be a living sign to our patients and partners that they are not alone in the wilderness. We can't avoid the harsh and rugged wilderness. We can't always prevent the people we love or those in our communities from experiencing it. This Lent, as we sit together in that wilderness, we are challenged to remain rooted in our conviction that God is here with us and we are never alone. May this place, indeed, be the promise of something new and life-giving for all of us.

Allison HavensMarch 10, 2025Lent, Patient Impact, Mission & IdentityComment

Look for the Helpers

Fred Rogers, TV’s beloved Mr. Rogers, used to say that when there is a crisis, look for the helpers. During our week in Vinto, Bolivia, as part of Solidarity Bridge’s Multi-Specialty Mission Team, we never had to look far to find helpers.

Honoring Our Founding Partner: The Archdiocese of Chicago

For 25 years, Solidarity Bridge has provided a way for individuals and entities of the Archdiocese of Chicago and beyond to live out their call to global mission. Our shared commitment—to respond to the gospel call to heal the sick in a spirit of solidarity—remains steadfast.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeApril 18, 2024SilverJubilee, Solidarity Award, FIESTA, Mission & IdentityComment

White Paper on Intercultural Encounter

In addition to providing direct medical care in Bolivia and Paraguay, we at Solidarity Bridge remain committed to ensuring that our model of care is truly transformative—for individuals, communities and systems. This white paper codifies the learnings and insights gained from our decades of experience and offers a framework to make these encounters even more fruitful, respectful, and transformative.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeJuly 3, 2023Mission & IdentityComment

Lenten Reflection: The one you love is sick

In today’s gospel, Mary and Martha are confronted with their brothers’ serious illness. Their fear, worry and desperation are what many patients and their families feel when they receive the diagnosis of a surgically treatable condition, but are unable to access the needed operation.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeMarch 24, 2023Mission & Identity, LindsayDoucette, LentComment

Rend Your Hearts: Ash Wednesday Reflection

Today, as Lent begins, you are invited to take time to read some of our stories – stories of patients in need of medical care they cannot access; stories of medical providers going to great lengths to change the health care realities in their communities; stories of hearts and lives transformed.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeFebruary 21, 2023Mission & Identity, Lent Comment

Fully, Deeply Engaged

On Monday, we began our work at the Hospital Materno Infantil San Juan de Dios. As we were welcomed by the hospital director and met our partners in the medical exchange we are embarking upon, the invitation to engage deeply was clear.

Medical Mission Trip BlogSolidarity BridgeSeptember 27, 2022MSMT 2022, Mission & Identity Comment

Mission Appeal(ing)

We are grateful to the Global Mission Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago for the opportunity to share more about our work at two parishes this summer.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeAugust 24, 2022Mission & IdentityComment

Pandemic Travel Brings Hope

Traveling to Bolivia, we’ve found a renewed sense of hope in the ability to be present with our colleagues during a time of global turmoil. The power of human connection and the joy of being physically present remains stronger than ever.

Brazilian Variant Spurs New Surges

The coronavirus variant from Brazil, a more aggressive mutation of the virus, is causing COVID-19 surges in many areas of North and South America. In the face of this ongoing crisis, we remain committed to the common good.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeApril 16, 2021coronavirus, covidreality, Mission & IdentityComment

Accompanied in Our Suffering

In the face of the devastating toll of the pandemic, like Jesus on the cross, we may at times feel forsaken, abandoned. But we are not.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeMarch 30, 2021CatherineFlanagan, Mission & IdentityComment

My Personal Story of Life-Saving Care

Personal experiences of healing draw us closer to the reality of those who suffer around the world. In the name of all those who must wait for healing care, our work to increase access to safe and timely surgery continues.

The Edges are the Center

As the government response has focused on large institutions, Puente de Solidaridad has directed a number of our supplies to smaller organizations known for working at the edges of society.

Updates from the SB TeamSolidarity BridgeAugust 17, 2020covidresponse, Equipping, Mission & IdentityComment