International Day of the Midwife

Celebrating Midwives: Honoring Community Care This week, we witnessed the quiet power and profound impact of traditional midwives—parteras—as we traveled to two of our communities. The experiences we shared reaffirmed something we already knew: midwives are not just caregivers—they are the heart of maternal health in our communities. Care Rooted in Respect In Playa Lorenzo, […]

A reflection from Paulina Szylin, Floating Doctors Dental Lead How do I write about those experiences that can’t even be put to words? How do I tell people what I’ve seen without being misunderstood or judged, is it even possible? And yet I feel such pull to writing and sharing the stories that I have […]

Carmen and Sofia’s Story with Floating Doctors Carmen, our Dental Lead, and Sofia, our Health Education Coordinator recently completed their fellowships with Floating Doctors. The transition from their lives in Spain to off-grid living off the coast of Panama and working with fewer resources was challenging, but rewarding. Below, they share a bit of their […]

It’s World Malaria Day. The World Health Organization selected the theme “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world” and this theme is right on point for our communities. While the risk of transmission of the disease is low overall in Panama, it is most prevalent is in the Comarcas, which are mostly […]

Reflections on being with Floating Doctors in Haiti The efficiency with which the Floating Doctors delivers care is astonishing. They arrived in a small town which had no significant docking facilities and no airport for relief flights. On board the 76 foot Southern Wind they carried several thousand pounds of construction material, several thousand pounds of medical supplies, […]

That first day in Petit Goave, Haiti, was relatively cool, though compared to Southern California it FELT quite hot because of the high humidity. Someone from St. Louis or New Orleans would have found it to be a remarkably comfortable summer day. After finishing the clinic work and touring the tent city which had grown […]

We arrived at the Des Granges Clinic just after lunch. Ben had only a few more patients remaining. Sky was there. I was so happy to see them both looking so well after all our months of separation. All the volunteers looked extremely healthy and full of enthusiasm for the mission. I met Noah, whom […]

May 23, 20100 I lived in a rough neighborhood on the near west side of Chicago in the 1960’s. I worked in Watts in Los Angeles for several years in the mid-1970’s. I have traveled over remote roads in Northern Cambodia, through the alleys of Calcutta, and I have walked all over Johannesburg, South Africa, […]