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…
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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…
If you’ve been on Watsi lately, you’ve probably noticed a bunch of smiley kids in green shirts on our patients page. These kids traveled such long distances to…
This is a guest post by Sarah Mwangi, the Kenyan coordinator at one of our Medical Partners, African Mission Healthcare Foundation [http://amhf.us/]. Sarah is responsible for identifying patients…
Our approach to patient privacy is simple, we treat every patient how we would like to be treated. Because we rely on our Medical Partners to submit patient information, we…
We were featured on BBC news this week! Watch the video [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680579].…
Friday5 [https://www.friday5.org] is a startup helping people skip to the best part of giving to charity - finding out what great stuff their money did! Each week,…
Pedro (featured above) lost his right arm in a fireworks accident when he was nine years old. Overnight, things like eating, getting dressed, and writing became a struggle. A month…