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The following excerpt is from a November 26, 2009 article from the Miami Herald. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The U.S. has begun delivering food to Guatemalans suffering through a long drought. By EZRA FIESER Special to The Miami Herald EL MOJON CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala — Nine-year-old Lide Ramirez and her little brother sat on an 18-pound bag of rice on a recent sunny morning, thinking that for the first time in months they would …complete post The following excerpt is from a November 29, 2009 article published by Time.com. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Ezra Fieser In his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to Italy’s Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, “touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque.” Atitlan, however, “is Como with the additional embellishment of several immense volcanoes. It is really too much of …complete post Synergo Arts is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), tax exempt organization based in Arizona. Its purpose is to help artists and artisans around the world use ergonomics to maximize health, income, performance, productivity, creativity, and art or craft quality. They do this through a grassroots approach to innovating and delivering ergonomics resources, with a special focus on empowering the millions of artisans in the developing world who depend on their craft for survival. Consulting and design projects Synergo Arts’ …complete post Orphan Resources International (ORI) believes that every child is special and that God has a plan for each of their lives. Their mission and goal is to aid the children of this world, who through no fault of their own, have found themselves orphaned and alone. They wish to show them that God and many other people do indeed love them. They aim to provide aid to orphanages in Guatemala, with the vision to expand to …complete post By: Danilo Valladares The following excerpt is from an article published on November 4, 2009 by Inter Press Service. To view the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 4 (IPS) – Juan Manuel Ardón’s bones jut out and his hair is dull and thin: signs of severe malnutrition. He is so weak that he can hardly walk or talk, and the doctors say his weight and stature are those of a six-year-old, rather …complete post The following excerpt is from a November 3, 2009 article published in The Guatemala News. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. In a new Survey on Remittances 2009, Children and Adolescents, the eighth in this IOM-Guatemala series and jointly produced with UNICEF, confirms the negative impact of the financial crisis on children and adolescents in Guatemala. The decline in remittances from family members abroad has forced tens of thousands of children to …complete post
Strengthening Guatemalan families through reproductive health. WINGS’ Mission is to create opportunities for Guatemalan families to improve their lives by providing them with family planning education and access to reproductive health services. WINGS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible in the United States.
WINGS’ Programs: To address this need, WINGS implements a range of programs, which provide the following services: Subsidies for short- and long-term family planning methods for men and women who cannot afford …complete post |
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