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And Who Is My Neighbor? In Buffalo and Beyond

In 1997, when we opened a tiny family medical practice on the Westside of Buffalo we needed to choose a name. I suppose we could have called it Barton Street Family Practice. But instead we chose “Jericho Road Family Practice” based on the story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus

Fighting For Peanuts

In 2016, during the Ebola epidemic, our CEO and Founder, Dr. Myron Glick, lead a team from Buffalo, NY to Sierra Leone to support our staff and clinic there. While there, he sent an email back to the team in Buffalo, bearing witness to what he was seeing. This is

Harvest Time in Sierra Leone

Above, please find a video recently sent to us by our team in Sierra Leone. We recently started the harvest of our 17 acre rice farm. Phebian Abdulai, our Director in Sierra Leone, is speaking in Krio. A translated version of her speech is below. Special thanks to Karlin Bacher,

Goma

Below, please find part-two of Dr. Harding’s reflections from her recent trip to our Wellness Center in Goma. Part-one can be found here. Goma has its own music, percussive and metallic, variably rhythmic and ametric, and punctuated by human voices talking, calling out, chanting to make the work go faster,

May I Never Experience All That One Can Get Used To

Below, please find part-one of Dr. Harding’s reflections on her recent trip to our Wellness Clinic in Goma. Of Goma, I can say first that I am sad to leave it, and our friends here. And that it brings to life a Russian saying, “May I never experience all that

Blurry Vision

Below, please find an excerpt from an email Dr. Glick sent back to Buffalo in May of 2023 while on a trip to visit our Jericho Road clinic in Nepal. This morning we got up really early and drove two hours to a remote village close to the Tibet border.