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’…
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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…
In 1997, University of Oregon professor Paul Slovic sat at his desk in Oregon, but his mind was 8,000 miles away in Rwanda. It was just three years after…
Join us for a live chat on Reddit with Dominga, a patient who was locked out of the Guatemalan healthcare system, and Peter, the doctor who made sure she received…
In Guatemala, the biggest obstacle to accessing healthcare isn’t always money. Francisca has had severe diabetes since she was six years old. When she got pregnant last year, she…
San Francisco’s LinkedIn office hosted a St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser yesterday for Watsi. LinkedIn’s four business lines — sales, marketing, talent, and Lynda — raced to raise money for…
Some patients and their families wait years for healthcare. When they finally have the opportunity to receive treatment, what do they say? When a patient seeks care, a doctor interviews…
Meet Emily, Nisha, Aditi, and Saba - the four board members of Watsi's chapter at UC Davis. The Watsi chapter at UC Davis organizes fundraisers and events to support patients…
When Christopher J.L. Murray was 10 years old, he ran a pharmacy. His parents moved his family from Minnesota to England, bought two Land Rovers, drove across the Sahara…
Meet three women from Guatemala whose New Year's resolutions hinge on health When a healthy baby would have been gaining weight and bursting with energy, Estela's mother worried when her…
Three years ago, we launched Watsi to make healthcare a reality for everyone. This year, we started seeing double. We just released an interactive report with data and stories about…
From fish paste to stinging nettles, here are 5 hospital meals fueling life-changing healthcare Patients come to Kenya’s Kijabe Hospital to receive care for serious conditions, ranging from brain…