A cool thing happened in Tanzania last week. Our partner hospital brought a group of surgeons from the US to their community to run a surgery camp. These camps attract…
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Andrew Stinger, one of our most committed volunteers, recently told Watsi’s story to 95 of the brightest high school sophomores at the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation’s Annual MassSTAR…
He’ll stop at nothing to make his dad proud. Last week, Watsi donors funded his healthcare [https://watsi.org/profile/a354efcc54c8-ramesh] after he broke his arm breaking up a…
This week only, we’re matching donations made to patients from our medical partner Burma Border Projects [https://watsi.org/partners/burma-border-projects] . Patients like Moe Chit [https://watsi.org/profile/…
Our friends at Coinbase [https://coinbase.com/] just launched payment pages [http://blog.coinbase.com/post/87117758747/introducing-payment-pages-with-nas-marc-andreessen] . To celebrate, Nas is donating all bitcoin received through his page [https:…
Geralyn had one wish; to see her son grow up healthy. Then, four years ago, he passed away. That’s when Geralyn did something incredible. She started donating to fund…
We met Edmond on our trip to East Africa. He’s a resident at a Watsi partner hospital in Kenya. But when he returns home to Rwanda, he’s going…
Tales from the Watsi trip to Kenya and Tanzania "RTY level 1,000" Our trip started with a RTY (Read This Yo) Level 1,000 text. Our airline…
When Dan and Julie got married, they did something incredible. Instead of asking their friends and family for gifts, they pooled their money and funded healthcare for dozens of patients…
We’ve looked up to Supercell [http://www.supercell.net/], a Finnish mobile game-maker, since they won “Founders of the Year” at Founders Forum [http://foundersforum.eu/] last year. Ilkka…
Friends of Watsi, We’re excited to announce a big change. After careful consideration and consulting from our advisory board, we decided that updating the color of our logo would…
Students in 826 Chicago [http://www.826chi.org/]’s famous creative writing program are now writing Watsi [http://watsi.org] patient profiles in their workshops! Joining the 100+ remote writing…
Cecelia spent her 40th birthday fighting cancer. Then, in 2007, she was diagnosed again. But Cecelia didn’t give up. “I have the wonderful first world benefit of insurance, a…
This is a guest post from Vince DeGennaro of Project Medishare [https://watsi.org/partners/project-medishare], our partner in Haiti. It was originally published in Notre Dame Magazine [http://magazine.…
16 partners, 1,135 patients, and 5,022 donors made it happen. 5,022 people gave. People like Maggie [https://blog.watsi.org/post/45149169496/this-is-maggie], a 5-year-old girl in…
We’re excited to announce that Humble Bundle [https://www.humblebundle.com/], a startup that lets anyone pay what they want for video games and support charity online, has made…
We’re excited to announce that you can now donate in someone else’s name on Watsi! Our team has been dedicating donations nonstop since we launched the feature, and…
Buying holiday gifts is one of those things that tends to get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. So we decided to make it easy. We teamed up…