Clinic: Salud y Paz currently operates two health and dental clinics that primarily serve the Mayan population in the Quiche Department. 71% of the rural Mayan population lives in EXTREME poverty, with an income of less than US$1.00/day, or approximately $360/year. Since August 2001 the clinics have been open full time. They have now documented [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Article: How to Set Up Your Rural Dental Clinic
Posted by Laura on August 26, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Children of the Americas
Posted by Laura on August 25, 2009
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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, [...]
Profile: Common Hope
Posted by Laura on August 25, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: ASSADE
Posted by Laura on August 25, 2009
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The mission of Assade is to provide health services to residents of San Andres Itzapa, and to educate people inside and outside of the clinics in order to prevent diseases and promote health. Their goal is to reach and serve at least 75% of the poorest and most susceptible population, within time frame of three years. [...]
Profile: Namaste Direct
Posted by Laura on August 24, 2009
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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 [...]
Article: Perceptions of Short-Term Medical Volunteer Work: A Qualitative Study in Guatemala
Posted by Laura on August 24, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota
Posted by Laura on August 21, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Matthew W. Wilson, MD
Posted by Laura on August 21, 2009
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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.
Profile: Avivará
Posted by Laura on August 21, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Healing the Children
Posted by Laura on August 19, 2009
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Healing the Children is a national, non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing medical care to needy children in our own community and around the world. Foreign children are treated by volunteer medical teams in their homeland and other children are flown to the United States for donated specialized care. For general information about this group, please [...]
Profile: Glens Falls Medical Mission Foundation
Posted by Laura on August 19, 2009
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The mission of Glens Falls Medical is to develop a sustained effort to work with the people of Nueva Santa Rosa, in southern Guatemala. They provide the local residents with needed health benefits, including both the medical care itself and the tools to empower them to improve their own health care. The dates for the [...]
Profile: Mayan Families
Posted by Laura on August 18, 2009
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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, [...]
Profiles
Posted by Laura on August 18, 2009
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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.