Since June 2002, Pop Wuj has offered a Medical Spanish Program for medical students, providers, public health professionals, and other healthcare practitioners (e.g., doctors, nurses, paramedics, midwifery, and physical therapists). For years they have attracted a growing number of healthcare students and professionals who would like to learn Medical Spanish. The Medical Spanish Program provides [...]
Category Archives: Hospitals / Clinics
Profile: ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative)
Posted by Laura on July 16, 2010
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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 [...]
Profile: Curamericas Global, Inc.
Posted by Laura on June 22, 2010
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Curamericas Global partners with underserved communities to make measurable and sustainable improvements in their health and wellbeing. Since 1983, they have been working to reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in regions that lack basic health services. They also organize short-term volunteer trips to their project sites in Guatemala, Bolivia, Haiti and Liberia, where [...]
Profile: Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni
Posted by Laura on June 1, 2010
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The Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni (Daniel Comboni Community Clinic) located in Mixco, Guatemala, provides health, dental, and educational services. The clinic reaches out to the large population of indigenous people living in poverty and extreme poverty in Mixco by offering health and dental services for a nominal fee. Education and nutrition programs provide the people [...]
Profile: Primeros Pasos
Posted by Laura on May 20, 2010
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Primeros Pasos is a clinic in rural Guatemala that has a comprehensive outlook on health care. With the collaboration of health professionals, health educators, volunteers, and community leaders, Primeros Pasos offers quality and affordable health care and health education to the rural, underserved communities of the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Primeros Pasos works in [...]
Profile: VOSH
Posted by Laura on May 18, 2010
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VOSH is a non-governmental, non-sectarian, non-profit organization made up of optometrists, ophthalmologists, opticians, and other persons who have donated their time, talent, and money to help those in need to by building self-supporting eye clinics in the countries they serve. The VOSH mission is to empower local eye care specialists in developing countries by building [...]
Profile: Clinica Maxeña
Posted by Laura on April 12, 2010
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Clinica Maxeña, in Santo Tomás, provides medical, dental and optical assistance and limited types of surgery. The clinic operation is made up of various projects that receive support from several donor agencies, including the Diocese of Helena, MT. These projects work together to provide excellent care to those who come to Clinica Maxeña and also [...]
Profile: Project Concern International/Casa Materna
Posted by Laura on March 25, 2010
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Project Concern International (PCI) is a non-profit health and humanitarian aid organization dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. PCI began working in Guatemala in 1974, bringing basic health care to Mayan communities around Lake Atitlan. Throughout the 1980s, during the civil war that ravaged Guatemala, PCI trained an extensive network [...]
Announcement: New Clinic in Santa Maria de Jesus
Posted by Marian on January 11, 2010
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Guatemala SANA is currently constructing a clinic in the town of Santa Maria de Jesus. This lovely facility focuses on an underserved population, and will host traveling groups, beginning in October of 2010. The group is hoping to raise $305,000 to cover all the costs of the construction, labor, permits and licenses, land, furnishing, medical [...]
Profile: Clínica Dental / Río Dulce – UPDATED
Posted by Laura on December 13, 2009
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This project, run jointly by the Anacortes (Washington) Rotary Club and Club Rotario de la Asunción of Guatemala, began in the early 1990’s and provides year-round dental service to very poor Queqchi Mayan people living in remote areas of eastern Guatemala. Volunteers serve for a minimum of ten days (although the group prefers a longer [...]
Profile: Agape in Action
Posted by Laura on December 7, 2009
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Agape in Action, Inc. is a tax exempt, nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity organization with headquarters located just outside of Houston, Texas. They conduct rural medical clinics in impoverished areas of the Quiché region. Clinics are held in churches, schools, and on occasion, in an actual medical facility, or where the need arises. Their mission is [...]
Profile: The Shalom Foundation
Posted by Laura on December 1, 2009
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The Shalom Foundation is dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and financial support to underprivileged children and their families with a focus on Christian values and service. The Shalom Foundation is supported through contributions from private citizens, businesses, churches and foundations. The Medical Program: The Medical Program is one of The Shalom Foundation’s most important [...]
Profile: Boca Costa Medical Mission
Posted by Laura on September 22, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Behrhorst Partners for Development & Behrhorst Clinic
Posted by Laura on September 18, 2009
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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. To promote through experience-based education an understanding of the [...]
Profile: Hospitalito Atitlán
Posted by Laura on September 14, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Pop Wuj Clinic
Posted by Laura on September 14, 2009
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At the heart of the Pop Wuj Clinic, is a vision for quality, sustainable healthcare delivered to the most vulnerable residents of Quetzaltenango and several villages in the surrounding rural Highlands of Guatemala. The project, started in 2006 by an Emergency Medicine resident, is now a model for grassroots, collective efforts between a nationally recognized [...]
Profile: Safe Passage (Camino Seguro)
Posted by Laura on September 10, 2009
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Safe Passage – Hope, Education, Opportunity At Safe Passage (Camino Seguro), the mission is to create opportunities and foster dignity through the power of education. Safe Passage works with the poorest at-risk children of families living and working in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Within a safe and caring environment, they provide a comprehensive and [...]
Profile: Hospital de la Familia
Posted by Laura on September 1, 2009
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What started over 30 years ago as a small dispensing pharmacy in Nuevo Progreso is today a year-round medical facility offering general medical, minor surgery, pediatric, obstetrical and dental services. The hospital consists of wards that can accommodate 72 patients. During the past several years, the hospital has maintained a staff of over 60 full-time [...]
Profile: Salud y Paz
Posted by Laura on August 27, 2009
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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 [...]
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. [...]