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The following excerpt is from a September 30, 2009 article published by the BBC. To view the article in its entirety, please click here. By Alberto Najar The political crisis in Honduras is having a crippling effect on trade in Central America, with Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica losing millions of dollars of trade every day… The ongoing political deadlock in Honduras has come at a high price for Guatemalan businesses. Javier Zepeda, president of the country’s …complete post Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. Compassion recently celebrated the milestone of 1 million children sponsored at one time. Child Sponsorship: Compassion’s work in Guatemala began in 1976. Currently, more than 33,300 children participate in 140 child development centers. The group partners with churches around the country to help them provide Guatemalan children with the opportunity to rise above their circumstances. …complete post The following excerpt is from a September 29, 2009 article published in the Miami Herald. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. A record-breaking drought in Guatemala — coupled with higher food prices and a drop in remittances — is raising concerns that malnutrition could be spreading in the Central American nation. BY TRENTON DANIEL DEVISADERO, Guatemala — Victoria Lopez cradles her 2-year-old granddaughter Jennifer, whose chubby cheeks, bloated legs and stunted growth make her …complete post
The Wisconsin Professional Partners Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-WPP) has approximately 175 members and is currently working on Guatemalan projects independently, and with four universities in the area: The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), Marquette University (MU), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and Michigan Technological University (MTU).
EWP-WPP is currently working on bridge projects in the Departments of Chimaltenango and Quiche. These projects are completed in partnership with local communities and NGOs. El Aguacate: EWB-WPP is partnering …complete post The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Our support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. IDRC in Guatemala IDRC has supported research in Guatemala since 1980. Early work focused on improving farming systems, health …complete post The following excerpt is from an article published on September 25, 2009 by TIME. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Ezra Fieser / Quetzaltenango Ever since Jesuit monks brought coffee to Guatemala three centuries ago, raising the beans has been a losing business for small farmers. Conditions are miserable — try lugging 100 lb. of fertilizer up a mountain — and even though coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, …complete post The following excerpt is from a September 25, 2009 article published by Relief Web. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. MEXICO CITY, Sep 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Italy donated 400,000 euros (588,000 U.S. dollars) to Guatemala on Friday to help a food-buying program run by the World Food Program (WFP), a Guatemalan official said. According to news reaching here, Willem Van Milink, the Program’s Guatemalan representative, said WFP would use the …complete post As Green As It Gets™ is an incubator for small Guatemalan businesses. They provide training, technical services, marketing and financing to hard-working proprietors who need a push in the right direction to lift themselves out of poverty. They place a strong emphasis on protecting the environment and land restoration as an integral part of business management. They help producers develop environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural programs such as intercropping, managed forestry and organic farming. All revenue from As …complete post The following excerpt is from an article published by Reuters/AlertNet on September 24, 2009. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. To view the report on which the article is based, please click here. As the leaders of the rich world meet in Pittsburgh this weekend to discuss the economic crisis, Christian Aid launches a report highlighting the way in which derisory tax rates deprive poor countries of billions in lost revenue. Developing country governments have for decades …complete post Hijas™ takes its name from the Spanish word for “daughters,” the demographic they seek to empower through a series of programs designed to provide both immediate and long-term relief. The residents of the Marta and Maria Orphanage in Jalapa, Guatemala come from various family situations, from girls who have lost both of their parents, to girls whose families can no longer financially support them, to girls who have been removed from abusive and potentially dangerous …complete post The following excerpt is from an article published on September 23, 2009, by The World Food Programme. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Wanting to see the impact of hunger with her own eyes, the Grammy award-winning artist recently traveled to Guatemala and met some of the beneficiaries of WFP’s nutrition programmes there. For Aguilera, it was an unforgettable experience. GUATEMALA CITY — Christina Aguilera just wanted to hug the young woman she met in a Guatemalan …complete post The following excerpt is from a September 22, 2009 article published in The Tiawan News. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Taipei, Sept. 22 (CNA) Taiwan will donate US$500,000 in relief aid to Guatemala, one of its allies in Latin America, to help alleviate a food shortage caused by drought, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday. The donation will be handed over to the Guatemalan government by the …complete post This excerpt is from an article published on September 22, 2009 by The HuffingtonPost, and written by Josette Sheeran. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The perfect storm for the world’s most vulnerable is back — and with a vengeance. Now bad weather and soaring food prices have been joined by a financial crisis sucking the economic life out of poor communities — and urgent hunger is the result…. …In Guatemala, children have …complete post Boca Costa Medical Mission is a group of medical clinics, maintained and staffed by medical missionaries that serve the Indigenous people of Southwestern Guatemala. The team has been working in Guatemala since 2003. The base clinic, in the village of Paquila, in the department of Sololá, is about 1 ½ hours south of Quetzaltenango and about 2 ½ hours west of Guatemala City. The clinic in Paquila is open every Thursday and Friday. A new clinic in …complete post Guatemala is experiencing a worsening food crisis in the so-called dry corridor in the east and northeast of the country. According to the Guatemalan authorities, 91 per cent of children there are suffering from malnutrition. This is three times higher than the levels reached in 2007 and 2008. Between 60 and 80 per cent …complete post The mission of the Behrhorst Partners for Development (BPD) is to strengthen and expand processes of community development and participation that enhance people’s lives. It has two major goals: To support sustainable development initiatives that improve the health and well-being of particularly vulnerable sectors of society. This nonprofit organization’s goal is to work in respectful …complete post Hearts in Motion is currently seeking volunteers to staff its 2010 trips: December 29 – January 8: PT Casa Guatemala is an orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. These children come from a variety of backgrounds; some have been abandoned, some have been abused, while still others come from families too poor to even provide the basics of a child’s needs. The project touches the lives of hundreds of people. The 250+ kids that live at the children’s village, the people who work at the orphanage, …complete post The mission of Hearts In Motion is to provide care and medical treatment for children, families, and communities through its programs and sponsorships in the U.S., and Central and South America. An additional goal is to provide opportunities for individuals to participate in short-term mission experiences. The impact of the trip experience on each team member is at least as great as the impact on the lives of the people we touch. Hearts In Motion …complete post The YONOSE Foundation was formed as a non-profit organization to apply basic existing technologies to the solution of problems faced by geographically isolated and/or technologically challenged communities. The problems addressed are focused on health, economic, environmental, and educational concerns. Within these parameters, YONOSE operates to expand the use of renewable resources and economically viable technologies and to foster the independence and self-sufficiency of the populations with which they interact. Limited scope operations such as they engage …complete post HELPING HANDS Medical Missions provide short-term trips by medical personnel to poor areas throughout the developing world to provide medical attention in the fullness of the Catholic tradition. Services provided include: surgeries, dental care, physical therapy, consultations, distribution of medications, house calls, and Natural Family Planning courses. Our HELPING HANDS Medical Missionaries also take part in the mission’s spiritual program of daily prayer, Mass, meditation, classes on the Church’s teachings in the field of bio-ethics, and …complete post The following excerpt is from a September 14, 2009 article published on BBC.com. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala has been hit by severe food shortages, with some 54,000 families living in the east of the country facing a critical situation. President Alvaro Colom last week declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country. Lida Escobar is a field monitor for the …complete post Hospitalito Atitlán (HA) is a small, private, non-profit hospital serving a population of 43,000 Tz’utujil Maya on the southern shore of beautiful Lake Atitlán. Local physicians, nursing, and administrative staff work closely in collaboration with volunteer medical personnel from around the world to provide a comprehensive scope of care, including the only 24/7 emergency and surgical obstetrical care within a 2-hour radius. The hospital is supported financially by Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan, a U.S. nonprofit corporation …complete post Maya Pedal is a non-governmental organization located in San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango. They started in 1997, working with a group of Canadians from the organization PEDAL. Following a vision for sustainable development in Guatemala, they became constituted under local control as Asociación Maya Pedal in 2001. They recycle used bicycles to build pedal-powered machines, bicimáquinas, which support and help facilitate the work of small-scale, self-sustainable projects. Through this work they hope to contribute to the …complete post |
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