Our health-focused projects work to improve education and medical support for underserved communities in Los Angeles. By providing medical screening and preventative health information, our projects collaborate with medical professionals in their communities to bridge the gaps in healthcare.
Bruins Fighting Pediatric Cancer (BFPC)
Bruins Fighting Pediatric Cancer is a student organization at UCLA, focused on “Never letting cancer cloud the joy of being a kid”. Their main focuses are volunteering, spreading awareness, and fundraising money to support pediatric cancer research. Their service recipients range from patients at Mattel’s Children’s Hospital to families at the Ronald McDonald House, to those who are receiving life-changing treatments. Their main event held every year is Cranes for Cancer, where students from all over campus come together to fold cranes and present a shadow box to a child hero as a wish of good health.
Medicine, Education, and Development for Low-Income Families Everywhere (MEDLIFE)
MEDLIFE helps families achieve greater freedom from the constraints of poverty, empowering them to live healthier lives. MEDLIFE believes access to quality healthcare is a basic human right.
Students volunteer to engage in hands-on work both locally and globally in order to improve the lives of those in need. Through service-learning trips, development projects, and community service in Los Angeles, students work with the community members and professionals to encourage meaningful, sustainable change to areas of extreme poverty.
Pilipinos for Community Health
Pilipinos for community health focuses on underserved communities in the Los Angeles area and the Philippines by providing free basic health care and education for preventive health. PCH also caters to the needs of UCLA pre-health students by providing them with volunteer opportunities.
Vietnamese Community Health (VCH)
VCH tackles health disparities in communities with high rates of noninsured people, provide culturally appropriate care to medically underserved patients. Once a quarter, VCH hosts a Health Fair with local health professionals to provide a variety of primary health care services and screenings. At their smaller bi-weekly sites in Westminister, they focus on health education in medically underserved communities.
