Our members and volunteers on the importance of Ujimaa Medics

"We're building community. We're showing that we can take care of each other. We're all that ever has."

Lil Tree, at age 13

“I was only doing as I was trained; so if you really want to thank me, get trained. Get your family and friends trained so you can do what I did.”

Journey Jamison, at age 16

"It’s critical work to be able to have healthy, functioning communities. Health is one of the primary things and having access to resources to maintain your health is just the real basic sort of human rights, birthright things that every human should have. And yet our society isn’t really set up to provide that. So I love that [UMedics] is a collective of Black folks who are trying to provide that for ourselves."

Twila Jones, 2022