Clinic Link

Profile: Student Association for International Water Issues

Laura — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:00 +0000

The Student Association for International Water Issues, or SAIWI is a student organization at the University of Nevada, Reno, whose mission is to develop an understanding of global water issues and promote community empowerment through education and water resources development in developing countries.

SAIWI’s mission is to develop an understanding of global water issues and promote community empowerment through education and water resources development in developing countries. SAIWI seeks to provide a forum that fosters communication, ...complete post

Article: Honduras Women Murders Rise, Worrying

Laura — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:56:11 +0000

The following excerpt is from a March 9, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. (Emphasis Added)

TEGUCIGALPA – Increase of violence is nowadays women’s main worry in Honduras, where more than 400 were killed in 2009 and most of those responsible remain unpunished.

That figure places this country as second, regarding the number of homicides in that social sector, following Guatemala, ...complete post

Article: Guatemala’s Sugar Exports to Mexico Surges

Laura — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:50:57 +0000

The following excerpt is from a March 9, 2010 article published by Commodity Online. Click here to read the article in its entirety.

GUATEMALA CITY (Commodity Online) : Central American republic of Guatemala said its sugar exports to neighbor Mexico surged to close to 200,000 metric tons this fiscal.

According to Guatemalan Sugar Growers Association, this compares to last year where Guatemala didn’t export one single ton of sugar to Mexico from the 2008-09 harvest. The surge ...complete post

Profile: Thirteen Threads (Oxlajuj B’atz)

Laura — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:18 +0000

Thirteen Threads (Oxlajuj B’atz’) provides training and educational opportunities to Maya women’s groups throughout rural areas of Guatemala. More than 400 women in 22 groups currently participate in the project. They organize workshops, classes, and community follow-ups, as well as host two interns per year through their Young Mayan Women Internship Program

What does the name, Oxlajuj B’atz’, stand for? Oxlajuj means thirteen in K’achikel, and is symbolized by three dots above two horizontal bars. The ...complete post

Profile: Asturias Academy

Laura — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:03:55 +0000

The mission of Miguel Angel Asturias Academy is to improve living standards in Guatemala by creating informed, critically thinking, socially conscious citizens, empowered to live lives of their choosing and engaged as leaders in their communities. In a country where schooling means rote learning, overcrowding, and lack of access to reliable information, the Asturias Academy is dedicated to making education a vehicle for personal freedom and social justice. They strive to bring their transformative model first ...complete post

Profile: The MIT Mobility Lab

Laura — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:39:16 +0000

The mission of the MIT Mobility Lab (M-Lab) is to fill a niche in the mobility aid community; NGOs and manufacturers in developing countries often do not have the time, resources, and skills to develop high-risk/high-payoff projects that would make drastic improvements to mobility products and the lives of disabled people. By collaborating with local manufacturers and experts from the developed world, M-Lab students use their ingenuity and science/engineering skills to produce technology that can ...complete post

Welcome

Laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:38:16 +0000

Welcome to the Clinic Link blog. Clinic Link is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization (IRS Determination Letter), whose central activity is to create a free website devoted to improving the health potential of the Guatemalan people. The site will contain tools to help traveling medical missions, Guatemalan NGO’s, and development groups to work better, together.

While the site is being designed and built, feel free to browse the tags to the right, or the categories to the left, and explore ...complete post

Urgent Need: A Family in Crisis

Laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:36:22 +0000

Our friends at Mayan Families are trying to help a hard-working family in the Panajachel area get back on its feet. Please read on about the family’s needs, and either click on the “Contact Us” button above, or use the email address below if you have any ideas.

Leonel Culan is 37 years old. On December 3rd while he was working as a builder’s assistant he fell 3 meters off a rock wall. His life changed ...complete post

Newsletter: As Green As It Gets

Laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:14:33 +0000

Our friends at As Green As It Gets published some great articles in its February newsletter. See the excerpts below, and click here to read the entire thing!

Our Lendees Are Now Lenders: The coffee farmers have historically been the biggest recipient of our small business loans. Some of the more established farmers have reached a point where they are financially stable enough to be lenders. The farmers’ collective loaned cash to the community to create ...complete post

Article: Top Central American Climber to Scale Yushan

Laura — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:08:54 +0000

The following excerpt is from a March 6, 2010 article published by The China Post. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Jaime Vinals Massanet, the first Central American mountaineer to have reached the world’s seven summits, is in Taiwan to scale the island’s highest peak, Yushan (Jade Mountain), a national park source said yesterday.

Vinals, 49, a Guatemalan national, is scheduled to scale 3,952-meter Yushan on March 7-8, said Chen ...complete post