How do you get someone in San Francisco to donate to healthcare for someone like Willy, who lives almost ten thousand miles away in Kenya? Stories.…
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Stripped of reliable electricity, WiFi, and communication channels back home, our team immersed themselves in the local environment for twelve weeks while they built a platform that could succeed in this challenging setting.…
We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding Watsi to provide health coverage! Together, Watsi Crowdfunding and Watsi Coverage will help create a world where everyone has access to care––whether that’s by raising money through crowdfunding or enrolling in health coverage.…
Mosonik, a two-year-old from Tanzania, doesn’t have a pediatrician. Her healthcare is based on an informal and intricate network of people and knowledge.…
For one week last month, our friends at Tencent offered to 10x match any new donation to the Universal Fund and any increase in existing donations. This was a new…
“A delivery? Do you have a donation to deliver?” Sarah asked with her phone pressed between her shoulder and ear, shifting gears with her left hand and steering her Jeep…
Watsi fellow Elizabeth Sherwin chronicles a day in her first week at Wuqu' Kawoq, Watsi's medical partner in Guatemala. “Doña Emiliana!” Estelita’s voice sings through the trees, the echo…
What do street art, an auction, and a Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet have in common? And what could they have to do with saving lives across the globe? Normally,…
You’re a busy a doctor. You have few minutes to spare and just received a survey about a prescription medication. You know that the data you submit will eventually…
At most conferences, attendees leave company booths with business cards, pamphlets, or free trials. But this year, at the Annual National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, attendees who…
Last year, I gave my dad a Watsi gift card for his birthday. I watched him go on the homepage and read the patients' stories. I was curious who he’…
We met Khem in Cambodia. He’s a 70-year-old father from Cambodia with eight daughters and 35 grandchildren. "Some say it is a large family. But for me it…
We met BT at his desk. But the 44-year-old care coordinator at Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) — a free clinic in Cambodia’s capital — is rarely there. He spends most…
Meet the all-woman team of surgeons changing the face of healthcare in Cambodia. Cambodia’s healthcare system collapsed forty years ago. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge came to power…
Watsi cofounder Grace Garey was named one of Elle's top women in tech! The full article (original) from Elle is below: "What if you could help provide spinal-cord surgery…
What do you bring when you need care? An estimated 400 million people around the world have no access to healthcare. And when they need it most, patients and their…
A few months ago, we detected an increase in no-show patients at one of the hospitals that provides healthcare to Watsi patients in Kenya. The patients who failed to show…
In honor of Mother's Day, we asked mothers in Cambodia and the U.S. what advice they give their children. No two answers were the same, but they all had…