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Medlife for Students 

WELCOME STUDENTS TO THE MEDLIFE MOVEMENT

Transform your education through real-world experiences and develop the skills to lead with impact.

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WHAT IS MEDLIFE?

MEDLIFE (Medicine, Education, and Development for Low-Income Families Everywhere) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with over 20 years of partnering with low-income communities in Latin America and East Africa. We work to improve access to healthcare, education, and safe housing through Service Learning Trips, community development projects, and long-term patient follow-up care.

We empower students through ethical, hands-on educational experiences that center local leadership, sustainability, and community-driven solutions.We empower students to learn through ethical, hands-on experiences that prioritize local leadership, sustainability, and community voice.

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HOW TO GET INVOLVED AS A STUDENT

MEDLIFE partners with student-led chapters at universities and high schools around the world to offer life-changing opportunities that combine education, leadership, and impact.

Through MEDLIFE Chapters, students can:

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Through Service Learning Trips, students can:

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Purpose Over Profit

We reinvest every dollar where it matters most.
Unlike big box travel companies, MEDLIFE is a nonprofit. All funds go directly toward healthcare, housing, education, and jobs in the communities we serve. When families choose MEDLIFE, they support a mission — not a profit margin.

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Field Learning with Depth

Real education requires context, not just travel.
We go beyond sightseeing. Our programs are led by local professionals and rooted in social justice — helping students understand poverty, health, and inequality through immersive, reflective learning.

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Service Earns the Right to Learn

Students give before they receive.
Our trips begin with service — not extraction. By supporting public health and community projects, students earn a meaningful, ethical education based on respect and reciprocity.

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A Beginning, Not a Credential

This isn’t a résumé line — it’s a launchpad.
Our trips spark deeper purpose. Students return with the drive to pursue research, advocacy, and leadership — building more than experience: they build resilience and a lifelong commitment to impact.

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Systems over Sterotypes

We don’t teach charity — we teach systems change.
Instead of oversimplified narratives, we help students see the bigger picture: how infrastructure, policy, and history shape lives. Our goal is to build thoughtful changemakers, not saviors.

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“You don’t have to be in Pre Med, Physical Therapy or any health care field. We have business majors, people who just want to make an impact, people who like to travel, who want to see their impact in the communities, and they love it.”

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“I really enjoyed connecting with different patients and the global health aspect of MEDLIFE as well. It has made me also potentially consider a path in global health.”

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“Besides the really neat aspect of touching people’s lives and helping others, coming to an SLT is also really good for a president like myself in a leadership role. Med Schools love seeing that leadership or even just being a part of MEDLIFE shows leadership. It shows initiative and Med Schools really like that.”