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This article has been reproduced with permission from Phil Plunk, at Salud y Paz.
When you arrive at your location look around the site and find a location with light and if possible good air circulation. Plan for good patient flow in and out too. You also need access to electricity for your headlight.
When you decide on your area, ask the local translators or officials to find you at least 1 table, 2-3 benches, 1 chair …complete post
Each January, Children of the Americas, Inc. sends a volunteer medical/surgical team to work in a different area of Guatemala. The duration of the trip is one week, and generally takes place in the second half of January.
Click here to view a trip report from their 2010 visit to Retalhuleu.
Children of the Americas, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing necessary medical and surgical services to indigent children and their families in Guatemala. …complete post
Common Hope creates opportunities so that impoverished children and families can improve their own lives. The heart of Common Hope’s work in Guatemala is education. They provide the necessary resources for over 2,700 children to attend school each year in seventeen villages outside of Antigua and Guatemala City. Common Hope understands that education is about more than books and uniforms – a comprehensive approach is critical to help students and their families to reach their …complete post
Namaste Direct is committed to alleviating poverty in rural communities of Guatemala by providing impoverished women entrepreneurs with microcredit loans along with a personal business mentor, vocational training workshops and informal business education.
Conventional wisdom has it that there are four barriers to escaping poverty (defined as less than $2 a day income per household member).
a. Lack of capital
b. Lack of education
c. Poor health conditions
d. Disasters – natural and man-made, principally wars
Namaste Direct’s response …complete post
Tyler Green1 , Heidi Green1 , Jean Scandlyn2 and Andrew Kestler3
1School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
2Departments of Anthropology and Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
3Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
Click here to view this article in its entirety.
© 2009 Green et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative …complete post
For 10 days in July, a group representing the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota works with local Episcopal partners, Padre Dr. Roberto and the members of San Marcos Parish (St. Mark’s) in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala.
The team provides basic medical and dental care and leaves money with Padre Roberto (a physician) for follow-up testing and treatment of more difficult situations. On a recent trip they found a baby with a loud heart murmur. The child was further …complete post
Dr. Wilson’s Specialty is ophthalmology, particularly pediatric eye cancer.
He has a relationship with Unidad Hospital in Guatemala City (website in Spanish), and regularly travels there to perform pediatric eye surgery.
More information about Dr. Wilson can be found by visiting his profile, provided by St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
The mission of Avivará is: “To improve the quality of and access to education in Guatemala, and cultivate interconnectedness between the peoples of Guatemala and the United States.”
Avivará serves children, teachers and parents in Guatemala by providing school improvement grants to rural schools in some of its most poverty-impacted villages. It also distributes scholarships for students committed to furthering their education, and supports the establishment of after-school learning centers in communities where the lack of …complete post
Mayan Families is a small, non-profit group operating in the Highlands of Guatemala. They live and work in the Lake Atitlan region. The group provides assistance and opportunities to the indigenous people of Guatemala, in particular in the Lake Atitlan area, through education, community programs and construction.
For more information about Mayan Families, please visit their website, Yahoo group, or blog.
Here is a sampling of Mayan Families’ accomplishments. This is only a partial list of the numerous accomplishments of Mayan Families …complete post
So that we can all start to learn about each other, I am going to start posting profiles of individuals and groups working in Guatemala. If you have any suggestions for profile subjects, please email me at profiles@cliniclink.org, or leave a comment below.
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