Support the cause
Give directly and 100% of your donation goes towards the patient, event or campaign you wish to contribute to.
Delivering donations to a community kitchen
Give online
Scan the code that matches where you are, or use the button. Gifts from outside Bolivia go through Cup of Cold Water Ministries and are tax-deductible for US donors; gifts inside Bolivia reach the patient directly.
From outside Bolivia
Tax-deductible (US)
Scan to give through ccwm.org
Supports Medfund's operations. To direct it to a patient or trip, message us and we will make the request.
Through Cup of Cold Water Ministries, a registered 501(c)(3). Or Venmo @medfund.
Give at ccwm.org →Inside Bolivia
BNB · valid until 2028
Scan with any Bolivian banking app
In the glosa, write "Medfund" plus the city, patient or event.
On a phone? Save the image and open it in your banking app.
100%
of a direct gift reaches the patient
Give directly and 100% of your donation goes to the patient, event or campaign you choose. Tell us where you would like it used by writing "Medfund" followed by the city, patient, trip or event; otherwise it goes to our general fund, where we allocate it as needed.
Gifts through Cup of Cold Water Ministries
Gifts made through Cup of Cold Water Ministries support Medfund's operations rather than one patient's bill, and are tax-deductible for US donors. If you would like a gift through them directed to a particular patient or trip, tell us and we will make the request.
See exactly how a donation travels ↓For a sense of scale
What a gift covers
Real costs from our own cases. Examples, not a menu: give any amount through any of the routes on this page.
- $25
A round of antibiotics.
- $50
Two months of prescription medicine for a diabetic.
- $100
Three months of epilepsy medicine for one person.
- $250
Post-operative medicine for one person.
- $500
The cost of the operation Medfund was founded over, the one a man in La Paz couldn't afford in 2014.
Want your gift to go somewhere specific?
Tell us what you would like to donate to: a patient from our stories, a mobile-clinic trip, a city, or whatever moved you. We will tell you the best way to send it and make sure it lands there.
Tell us on WhatsAppOpens a chat with our team with your note already written in. This is a conversation, not a payment: the money itself goes through one of the routes on this page.
Other ways to give
By mail
Send a personal check, money order, or bill-pay check. Include a note designating the funds to Medfund.
Cup of Cold Water MinistriesP.O. Box 318, Newark, Illinois 60541
In person
Contact one of our team members in Bolivia to arrange a pick-up or drop-off.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba. See our contact details
In-kind
Medicine, toiletries, books, blankets, or any other item you would like to donate. Get in touch with one of our team members.
Get in touch →Where gifts end up
Shoes, books, water, medicine.
In-kind donations are sorted by volunteers and carried to the communities and hospitals that need them.
Sorting donated shoes 
Bottled water donations 
Handing out gifts in a village 
Children with their gifts 
Handing out books to children 
Volunteers bringing balloons
Where the money goes
If we ask you to trust us with money for someone's care, you are owed a clear account of it.
~20,000
Cases seen and funded
as of September 2026
People seen on our medical trips, plus the patients we have fundraised for. An approximate figure from our own records.
12
Years serving Bolivia
Continuously, since Medfund was founded in La Paz in December 2014.
We publish only the figures we can check against our own records.
What "100%" actually means
When you give to a patient through Medfund directly, the full amount goes to that patient's care. We do not deduct a percentage for administration, and we do not route it into a general fund. If you give $200 for someone's surgery, $200 goes toward that surgery.
The one exception is deliberate: gifts made through Cup of Cold Water Ministries support Medfund's operations, which is what keeps the mobile clinic fuelled and the team on the road. They are tax-deductible for US donors. If you would like such a gift directed to a particular patient or trip, tell us and we will make the request.
How a direct donation travels
- 1
You choose a patient
Either a specific person from our stories, or the fund for whoever needs it most urgently.
- 2
Your gift is designated
It is recorded against that patient. It is not pooled, and it is not spent on anything else.
- 3
We pay the provider directly
Medfund settles the bill with the hospital, clinic, or pharmacy. The money does not pass through the patient.
- 4
We tell you what happened
You find out whether the treatment went ahead and how the patient is recovering.
Tax deductibility. Medfund is a program fully supported by Cup of Cold Water Ministries, a registered 501(c)(3) organization. US donors can therefore give tax deductibly through Cup of Cold Water Ministries.
Have a question about the money?
Ask us anything about how a donation was used. If we cannot answer it clearly, that is our problem to fix.
Ask usNot ready to give today?
There are other ways to be a hero. Every one of them matters to someone.
Rather talk to a person? Message us on WhatsApp. Medfund's team usually replies within the day.