"A person is only a statistic until you meet them."
Who we help.
Bolivia is a country rich with veins of silver and tin running deep under the Andes in the west, and herds of cattle and broad pampas bordering the Amazon in the east. Mining and agriculture help fuel one of South America's faster-growing economies, and yet Bolivia remains one of the poorest countries on the continent.
The great majority of those living under the poverty line have no insurance. When they fall victim to tragedy, they have nothing to fall back on. Except us.
Where we work.
Three cities, each with its own team on the ground.
Tap a city for its story
Small dots: the communities the mobile clinic has reached. Lighter clusters near Apolo and on the Mamoré river are placed by area. Full list of communities.
La Paz
Where it all began. Joey Kittelson and Patrick Prömmel founded Medfund here in December 2014, after meeting a man who couldn't afford a $500 operation.
Cochabamba
Our first expansion. Medfund branched into neighbouring Cochabamba in August 2015, on the way to its 500th patient later that year.
Santa Cruz
Operating since September 2015. The volunteers in the video on our homepage are the Santa Cruz team at work.
Your contact here
Sandra Glatt
(+591) 708 78874
And beyond: Medfund went international in November 2017, expanding to Minas Gerais, Brazil. A mobile clinic now makes trips into Bolivia's most remote areas.
The mobile clinic
Where the road has taken us.
13 communities so far: free medical and dental clinics in places a day or more from the nearest hospital. Each stop is documented in Medfund's own posts or in the Bolivian press; tap a name to open it in Google Maps. Where a village is too small for Google Maps to place it exactly, it is shown on our map by area.
Teoponte, La Paz · August 2016
Medfund's first mobile clinic
Montero, Santa Cruz · 2026
First stop of the 2026 medical tour
Buena Vista, Santa Cruz · 2026
Free clinic
Santiago de Machaca, La Paz · Easter 2026
Free clinics over Holy Week
Alpacoma, La Paz · April 2026
Mobile clinic for Día del Niño
27 de Mayo, Beni · 2026
First clinic of the Amazon mission on the Mamoré river
On the map by area: Mamoré river, Beni
Los Puentes, Beni · 2026
Emergency clinic for people stranded by a landslide
On the map by area: Mamoré river, Beni
Camiaco, Beni · 2026
Two days of medicine, dentistry and eye tests, around 100 patients
On the map by area: Mamoré river, Beni
Siphia, Apolo, La Paz · August 2019
Destination of the Apolo campaign. The team never arrived
On the map by area: Apolo area, La Paz
Azariamas, Apolo, La Paz · August 2019
Destination of the Apolo campaign. The team never arrived
On the map by area: Apolo area, La Paz
Curiza, Apolo, La Paz · August 2019
Destination of the Apolo campaign. The team never arrived
On the map by area: Apolo area, La Paz
Piedra Blanca, Apolo, La Paz · August 2019
Destination of the Apolo campaign. The team never arrived
On the map by area: Apolo area, La Paz
Children at a mobile clinic 
On the road to a mobile clinic 
A dental checkup outdoors 
Walking into a community 
Handing out gifts in a village 
At the dentist
What happens without help
Care is often not something you receive and settle up for later. It is something you pay for first. A family arrives at the hospital with a relative who needs surgery, and before anything happens they are told the cost: the operation, the anaesthetic, the supplies, the bed.
For families living close to the edge, that number may as well be infinite. So they go home. The condition, which was treatable on the day they arrived, stops being treatable.
The hardest part is the scale of it. These are not million-dollar interventions. They are operations, medicines and hospital stays where a minimal amount of money is the difference between someone going back to their family and not going back at all.
Why we do it patient by patient
Aid at a distance loses the person. Money goes into a fund, the fund does good work somewhere, and nobody can quite say who was helped.
We would rather point at one person and say: this is who they are, this is what they needed, this is what it cost, and this is how they are doing now. It keeps us honest, and it keeps the person at the centre of it, which is where they should have been all along.
A minimal amount of money changes this.
It pays a specific bill, for a specific person, on a specific day. And we will tell you how it went.
Rather talk to a person? Message us on WhatsApp. Medfund's team usually replies within the day.