Stories of Our Impact
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112+
Mission Trips Since 1999
Mission trips support our year-round programs through training, donations, and assessment.
48+
Millions of dollars in
Donated Medical Supplies
High-value surgical supplies make advanced care accessible for low-income patients at our partner hospitals.
8+
Thousands of Surgeries
Provided
Our surgical programs have helped to restore the health of more than 8,000 patients.
Impact by Numbers
Solidarity Bridge is a collaborative effort. We rely on a vast web of talents and hands to do our work, including our skilled US missioners, eager partner professionals and hospitals in Bolivia and Paraguay, generous donors, energetic volunteers, focused staff, committed board, and all those who pray for us and cheer us on. Thanks to each and every one of you, who, in the truest embodiment of solidarity, have made the following accomplishments possible:
2023 Accomplishments
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Impact on Partners
Our true impact goes far beyond the number of patients we serve directly. Each Solidarity Bridge program focuses on empowering Bolivian and Paraguayan professionals and institutions. Our impact is multiplied through the innumerable additional patients who benefit from the upgraded skills of our partner physicians and the equipment and supplies donated to our partner hospitals. Solidarity Bridge chooses each of our partners based not only on their skill sets and capacities, but also on their shared drive to use those resources and gifts in solidarity with the poor. We, in turn, are transformed by their selfless commitment and vocation.
We are proud to share the stories of these partner surgeons from each of our programs. Select any partner name to read more.
Impact on Patients
We have been touched by the beauty and strength of the people we serve. They have demonstrated the true meaning of compassion, respect, and faith, and in them, we have seen the power of humility and human dignity. While we go to Bolivia and Paraguay to heal and empower those in need, we have found that we are healed and empowered in return.
Read about our patients to learn about the impact that Solidarity Bridge makes through our various medical programs.
At 53, Margarita is a woman who has faced more challenges than most people do in a lifetime. When I first met her, she was overwhelmed by debilitating headaches and near blindness. About 18 months earlier, her symptoms had started with headaches and subtle vision problems. But at the time, she and her family thought it was all tied to the devastating loss of her husband of more than 30 years. The grief of losing him had consumed her, and no one could have imagined that something else might be wrong.