This is a guest post by Dr. Peter Rohloff. Providing prosthetic limbs is a really straight forward, extraordinarily high impact thing. However, we would never have been able to do…
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That’s more than our first three months combined! Be part of the story http://bit.ly/ZsIuqh…
Awesome, meet new level. Chris [https://twitter.com/covercash] works as a barista. He sent us this photo showing how he decided to use his tips one day. Thanks in…
Alvy Brooks [http://alvybrooks.com/], in collaboration with Y Combinator [http://ycombinator.com/], just released a limited edition YC poster, with 100% of the proceeds going to Watsi [https://watsi.…
My name is Cat Lockman, and my first trip to Africa was earlier this year in January. I visited Kenya, staying on-site at Lwala Community Alliance [http://lwalacommunityalliance.com/]’s…
Not a bad place to see ourselves in print for the first time! Read the full article here. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/business/watsi-a-crowdfunding-site-offers-help-with-medical-care.html]…
We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Burma Children Medical Fund [http://www.burmachildren.net/] to fund healthcare for people on the Thai-Burma border. Burma is the…
This post was featured on HuffPo! [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grace-garey/connecting-people-social-change_b_3033236.html?utm_hp_ref=impact] What would you do, if someone came up to you in…
Happy World Health Day! Photo courtesy of Wuqu’ Kawoq [http://wuqukawoq.org/] in Guatemala. Photo credit to Rob Tinworth [http://robtinworth.zenfolio.com/guatemala/].…
Chase talks to The Next Web [http://thenextweb.com/2013/04/06/catching-up-with-watsi-y-combinators-first-non-profit-graduate/] about what it’s like to be YC’s first non-profit.…
Last month, an awesome underground tech/design magazine called Offscreen Magazine [http://www.offscreenmag.com/] pledged 50% of its profits to Watsi. The results are in [http://blog.offscreenmag.com/…
More than 2 years since we first imagined a global crowdfunding platform for healthcare [https://watsi.org/], we pitched Watsi to a room full of the biggest investors in the…
Join us in welcoming Lavender - whose safe delivery [https://watsi.org/profile/eb72c47a3024-alice] at Lwala Hospital [http://lwalacommunityalliance.org/] was funded by Watsi donors - to the world! Lavender’…
Donor Spotlight: Riel How did you first hear about Watsi? I first heard about Watsi on Facebook through a great college friend of mine. 2. What made you donate on…
When they said it was boot camp for startups. In January, Jesse [https://blog.watsi.org/post/21043338728/meet-jesse], Grace, and I [https://blog.watsi.org/post/21043545556/meet-chase] quit…
Vuthai [https://watsi.org/profile/a2079eb435dd-vuthai], the 18-year-old monk in Cambodia whose medical treatment was funded by donors on Watsi, received surgery to remove a lump from his neck so…
On her 5th birthday, she handed out donations to Pemphero [https://watsi.org/profile/a6d438767006-pemphero], a 2-year-old girl in Malawi, as party favors. It’s never too early to start…
I’m Charlotte. I’m 35 years old, a teacher and a mother of four, living in North Carolina. I discovered Watsi from my team message board on Kiva, where…