Link for Health » Profiles

Profile: Global Health Missions – UPDATED

Laura — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:28:18 +0000

Global Health Missions is a non-profit organization founded by two physician assistants and an accountant who met in Guatemala while doing volunteer work in 2009. GHM is founded on the belief that the underserved in developing countries should also have access to quality healthcare.

GHM’s first medical mission involved 10 practitioners, 9 translators, and two local organizations, GIFT and Mayan Families. Each day of the mission, two clinics were run. Local social organization Mayan Families chose ...complete post

Profile: Emmaus Medical Mission

Laura — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:18:15 +0000

In 2001, a small group of doctors, nurses and volunteers traveled on the first medical mission to Sumpango, a small village in Guatemala, Central America. Their mission then and now is to provide quality medical care, medicines and vitamins free of charge for humanitarian purposes and further enhance goodwill of the United States in Latin America.

After providing free medical care, medicines and vitamins at no cost to well over a thousand needy patients, the medical ...complete post

Profile: Mayan Hope

Laura — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:58:31 +0000

Mayan Hope is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing educational, nutritional, medical, ecological, and other needed services to indigenous families, villages, and abandoned or abused children of Guatemala and other Latin American nations. They are a direct and hands-on charitable organization meaning that, as such, they work in close cooperation and side-by-side with the people in the communities where projects are located.

Education: Education is the foundation and primary purpose of Mayan Hope. They believe that ...complete post

Profile: Ties To The World

Laura — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:23:42 +0000

Ties to the World (“TTTW”) is a 501 (c)(3) not for profit organization founded in Northern California, by Ibis Schlesinger in November 2006. Their goal is to promote self-sustainable orphanages in Latin America and worldwide thus breaking the cycle of their dependence on charity.

Ties to the World wants abandoned children to have the tools they need to succeed as adults. They want to help orphaned and disadvantaged youth develop the academic, business, and interpersonal skills ...complete post

Profile: Rotary Club of Ft. Collins Dengue Program

Laura — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:58:18 +0000

Since 2005, the Rotary Club of Ft Collins, CO has been working with Rotary clubs in Guatemala on Dengue education and prevention programs. Dengue disease is caused by a virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes resulting in thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths each year in Guatemala. Unfortunately, there is no treatment or vaccine available so prevention is critical. The mosquito that transmits Dengue tends to live in and around houses and breeds in ...complete post

Profile: ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative)

Laura — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:42:41 +0000

ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative) is a non-profit institution that, through scientific cooperation has brought preventive and curative healthcare, along with other forms of development, to the neediest Guatemalan communities. These services have been delivered through the use of human capital and technology.

The vision of ASSCA is to become one of the most important development institutions in Guatemala; to contribute real, tangible support to Guatemalan communities; and to improve the quality of life ...complete post

Profile: Enfoque Ixcan

Laura — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:49 +0000

Enfoque Ixcán, founded by Dr. Scott Pike, is a non-profit organization which provides eye care to a remote jungle region of Guatemala. Dr. Pike is a professor at Pacific University College of Optometry. Their program is unique in that they train, equip and otherwise enable local eye health promoters to provide eye care so that they can serve their communities on a year around basis. They provide basic eye exams, eye glasses, eye health education ...complete post

Article: Stanford Students Bring Much-Needed Health Care to Rural Guatemala

Laura — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:20:07 +0000

The following excerpt and video is from a June 30, 2010 blog article posted in the Stanford University News. It details the experiences of a team of medical students, led by Dr. Paul Wise, on an annual trip to San Lucas Tolimán. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

For more than 30 years, Stanford School of Medicine Professor Paul Wise has traveled regularly to rural Guatemala to provide health care for people ...complete post

Profile: Heartbeat International

Laura — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:42:16 +0000

Heartbeat International is devoted to saving lives globally by providing cardiovascular implantable devices and treatment to the needy people of the world.

Heartbeat international is proud of the history and lineage whereby one person’s compassion for his fellow countryman ignited a chain of events that is now taking the form of a global movement. Twenty-five years ago Federico Alfaro, MD, a Guatemalan physician, was treating a seventeen-year-old patient. The boy had a heart condition cardiologists refer to ...complete post

Profile: Convoy of Hope

Laura — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:27:26 +0000

Convoy of Hope provides help and hope to people in need in the United States and around the world by providing food, clean water and supplies. To do that, they hold community outreaches, rendered aid to disaster victims, and implemented sustainability and nutrition programs in more than 120 countries.

Each year in the United States alone they hold up to 50 community events with the help of thousands of volunteers who serve tens of thousands of ...complete post