VIDA was created to be a resource volunteers can depend on to support their cause of helping fellow human beings and animals. As a nonprofit organization, VIDA aims to bring people together through service learning to make this world a better place.

VIDA stresses cultural integration because to interact with and truly help people from other cultures, we first need to understand them.

As different cultures interact, more understanding between peoples is achieved and at the same time that people learn about themselves and their own cultures. This experience leads to the opening of the mind and heart to global healthcare and human issues.

One of our long term goals is to have an impact on the future health professionals of the world and to increase the standard of living for those in Central America

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."

~Ghandi~