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Updates from our team, patient stories, volunteer experiences, and more!
Trust and Communion in Paraguay
Our neurosurgery team soon departs for Paraguay where a promising new partnership has begun at the public hospital in Asunción.
Learning to Wait
Team Chaplain, Aida Segura, shares her experiences from the first day of the general surgery mission trip.
Expanding Laparoscopic Surgery in Santa Cruz
This week, we return to the San Juan de Dios Hospital to continue a partnership launched in 2015, working alongside the hospital’s dedicated O.R. staff to expand laparoscopic training.
Then & Now: Gynecologic Surgery Program
Our Gynecologic Surgery Program serves those patients who are so often overlooked, post-reproductive age women.
Then & Now: Pacemaker Program
The humble crosses in a Bolivian cemetery inspired the start of our Pacemaker Program. Where Chagas Disease wreaks devestation, we strive to bring hope.
Bridging Resource Gaps
Advancing access to essential medical technology is a crucial component of the shared mission of Solidarity Bridge and Puente de Solidaridad. Our experience this week has proven to be a great opportunity to advocate for the international and local sharing of experience, building capacity, and reducing existing resource gaps.
Advancing Our Equipping Efforts
In Bolivia, biomedical engineering is a new and emerging field. Our partner hospitals in Cochabamba have requested assistance and training from biomedical engineers specialized in the repair of X-ray equipment.
An Example of Compassion
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.
Cancer Mission concludes in Santa Cruz
The 2019 Oncological Surgery Mission Trip concluded in Santa Cruz on April 13. As with everything we do, it took an untold numbers of individuals and institutions working in solidarity to make this mission trip possible.
The Privilege of Collaboration
First time Solidarity Bridge missioner, Jessica Waldo, shares her experience working with Bolivian nursing counterparts at the Instituto Oncológico del Oriente Boliviano.
Pray, Fast, Give: Palm Sunday
As we celebrate Palm Sunday and begin Holy Week, we enter into Jesus’ suffering and death. We journey with him through his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and sit at the Last Supper with his disciples. We hear his agony in the Garden and witness his betrayal and crucifixion. We watch, as the women gather at the foot of his cross, and he breathes his last breath.
A moment of reflection in Santa Cruz
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.