After wildfires ravaged Maui, local health providers without previous emergency response experience, mobilized to aid survivors, leveraging community trust and blending traditional Hawaiian healing with Western medicine in the recovery.
Direct Relief and La Fondita de Jesús collaborated to bring primary healthcare services to an underserved metropolitan area in Puerto Rico vulnerable to flooding.
When an earthquake recently rocked remote regions of Nepal, Mountain Heart Nepal raced to the rescue. Teaming up with Direct Relief and FedEx, their mobile medical units brought free healthcare to over 700 patients in devastated communities, providing critical care from wound treatment to diabetes medication.
Bilingual youth in Knoxville, Tennessee are bridging communication gaps between Latino patients and doctors through a nonprofit medical interpreter training program funded by Direct Relief, improving health access and outcomes.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a health center with multiple locations, also owns thousands of units of housing, which are key to supporting health, particularly for people recovering from substance use disorders.