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 [...]
Category Archives: Traveling Clinics
Profile: Helping Hands
Posted by Laura on September 16, 2009
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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 [...]
Profile: Pura Vida – Colorado
Posted by Laura on September 12, 2009
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Pura Vida is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization working to promote health and education in the Quiché department of Guatemala. They are currently focusing on rural villages in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. “Travel with a purpose” is a good way to describe what an international work trip is all about. The emphasis of these trips [...]
Profile: International Eye Institute, Inc.
Posted by Laura on September 1, 2009
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The International Eye Institute, Inc. (IEI) is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation (final approval pending from the Internal Revenue Service). Their purpose is to provide adult and pediatric eye care and surgery to people of impoverished regions around the globe. The team typically visits Nuevo Progreso, in the San Marcos department of Guatemala, [...]
Profile: Medical Missions for Children
Posted by Laura on September 1, 2009
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Medical Missions for Children (“MMFC”) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing free quality surgical, medical and dental care to poor and under-privileged children in various countries throughout the world. MMFC also facilitates the transfer of knowledge and recent innovations to the local medical communities. Since 2000, MMFC has traveled annually to Antigua, Guatemala, [...]
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: 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: 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 [...]