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 [...]
Tag Archives: Department of Guatemala
Profile: Guatemala Aid Fund
Posted by Laura on June 21, 2010
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Guatemala Aid Fund (GAF) began 10 years ago when Bethany Eisenberg Zeeb, an adoptive mother of two Guatemalan-born children, decided to stop exchanging expensive Christmas gifts and instead began collecting necessities such as medical supplies to help Hermano Pedro Orphanage/Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala. What started out as one family’s effort in giving back, turned into the Guatemala [...]
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 [...]
Current Need: Cleft Palate in Santiago, Sacatepéquez
Posted by Laura on May 28, 2010
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A little girl, 20 months old has a cleft palate and has already had the lip repair, and needs phase 2 of her surgery. She doesn’t need special supplies or formula at this point. We are networking to find a cleft team that is going to be in Antigua or GC soon. Any ideas? [...]
Ongoing Need: Medical Care for Street Children
Posted by Laura on May 18, 2010
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Life of Hope Ministries would like to make connections with medical teams who are going to Guatemala and could be available to have clinics in the Guatemala City area. They have 4 NGO partners and other clinic opportunities there. They have facilities to host the clinics and in-country partners to promote them. Life of Hope can help [...]
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: Kids Alive
Posted by Laura on May 5, 2010
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Kids Alive International is a Christian faith mission dedicated to rescuing orphans and vulnerable children – meeting their spiritual, physical, educational and emotional needs. Kids Alive provides children with the love and care every child deserves, and raises them to be contributing members of their society and witnesses to their family and community. The Oasis: [...]
Upcoming Trips: Hendersonville Rotary / Shalom Foundation
Posted by Laura on April 26, 2010
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Patient referrals are being accepted for the June 12-20 Guatemala City trip of The Hendersonville Rotary Club members led by Dr. Bill Taylor and Rip Lebkuecher with The Shalom Foundation. Dentists, hygienists, eye care professionals, physicians and support team members treated more than 1400 patients while conducting their wellness clinic at Shalom School last year. [...]
Profile: Dr. Roselyn Costantino
Posted by Laura on April 22, 2010
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Roselyn Costantino, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University Altoona, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spring Semester 2011 to do research in Guatemala and to lecture at the Universidad Del Valle Guatemala, Department of Anthropology. During the six-month award, Costantino will conduct qualitative research on the internal organizational dynamics [...]
Profile: Las Manos de Christine
Posted by Laura on April 9, 2010
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Las Manos de Christine works within impoverished communities to broaden opportunities for local children by providing English language instruction . It is in its fourth year of operation and building new relationships with individuals and other charitable organizations. Currently, its primary relationship is with Camino Seguro, which both has helped Las Manos enormously in its [...]
Announcement: The Moore Center for Surgery
Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010
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In 2008, The Shalom Foundation purchased a medical facility in Guatemala City. The Moore Center for Surgery will be the base of operations for their Medical Missions Initiative and will serve as a point of light for the local community and beyond. The surgery center is located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, a location that [...]
Announcement: Shalom Foundation Upcoming Trips
Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010
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The following trips are being sponsored by and/or are associated with The Shalom Foundation. To find out more information, visit their website. All groups will work in Guatemala City. Clean Water Trip – Living Waters for the World Franklin Breakfast Rotary & Kingsport First Presbyterian Church April 28 – May 3, 2010 Team [...]
Profile: Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American Studies
Posted by Laura on April 3, 2010
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In 2006, The Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) was designated a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education. While maintaining one of the strongest concentrations of Brazilianists of any university in the United States, the Center’s renowned faculty also has particular strengths in Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology, the study of democracy [...]
Profile: Refuge International
Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010
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Refuge International (RI) is a compassionate 501(c)3 volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives of families and individuals through the collaborative development of sustainable programs in areas where healthcare, adequate nutrition, clean water and education are lacking or non-existent. Refuge International also provides opportunities for mentoring of students who wish to become involved in humanitarian efforts. [...]
Profile: Partnership in Women’s Ministries
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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Partnership in Women’s Ministries (PWM) is a partnership of ministries serving abused and abandoned women in Guatemala. This partnership comes to fill a huge void in Guatemala, where women lack total control of their lives, and are powerlessly subjected to lives of misery. These women, who are lacking resources and education, are desperately trying to survive and provide for their families. [...]
Profile: Partnership in Women's Ministries
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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Partnership in Women’s Ministries (PWM) is a partnership of ministries serving abused and abandoned women in Guatemala. This partnership comes to fill a huge void in Guatemala, where women lack total control of their lives, and are powerlessly subjected to lives of misery. These women, who are lacking resources and education, are desperately trying to survive and provide for their families. [...]
Profile: Gesundheit!
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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The Gesundheit Institute began as a group of twenty friends, including three doctors, who moved into a six-bedroom home and called it a free hospital. The hospital was open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for all manner of medical problems from birth to death. 500-1000 patients were seen each month, with [...]
Profile: Only A Child
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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Only A Child maintains a shelter and a carpentry shop for former street youth in Guatemala City, but the shelter is far more than just a place to sleep. The shelter provides its residents with a genuine home and a surrogate family in which the kids are taught accountability and responsibility. They must contribute time [...]
Profile: Lemonade International
Posted by Laura on March 4, 2010
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There is an estimated 60,000 – 100,000 people living in La Limonada, and urban slum community built into a ravine that runs through Guatemala City. It was established in the late 1950’s by people who fled other areas of the country for various reasons. People settled there and built homes in the ravine because they [...]
Profile: Caputo Children’s Fund
Posted by Laura on March 3, 2010
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Dr. Salvatore Caputo, Executive Director of Caputo Children´s Fund, traveled to Central & South America, Africa, Brazil and Philippines for work duties in 1968 to 2002. While there, he and his wife helped at residential facilities for adults with physical challenges, homeless elderly people and street children. In 1968, the first time he visited Guatemala, [...]
Profile: Caputo Children's Fund
Posted by Laura on March 3, 2010
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Dr. Salvatore Caputo, Executive Director of Caputo Children´s Fund, traveled to Central & South America, Africa, Brazil and Philippines for work duties in 1968 to 2002. While there, he and his wife helped at residential facilities for adults with physical challenges, homeless elderly people and street children. In 1968, the first time he visited Guatemala, [...]
Profile: Life of Hope
Posted by Laura on March 2, 2010
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Life of Hope Ministries exists to rescue the street children of Latin America. They partner with existing ministry organizations that provide for the educational, emotional, physical, and spiritual welfare of street children and high risk families. They seek partnerships with other organizations with similar goals in an effort to expand the scope of their mission [...]
Profile: MADRE
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women’s organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education and other human rights. They provide resources and training to enable their sister organizations to meet these goals by addressing immediate needs in their communities and developing [...]
Profile: Fotokids
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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Teaching children to dream is the first step in their believing in a future. Fotokids was founded by ex-Reuters photographer, Nancy McGirr in 1991, with 6 children from the City’s vast garbage dump. Over the years, the organization has grown to include both rural poor and urban gang areas. Fotokids, including an environmental photo project [...]
Profile: Toybox
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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Street children stay alive by their wits – stealing and scavenging, begging and sleeping rough in parks, shop doorways and on dumps. These children have little or no access to education, care, food, shelter and their other rights. Many are drawn into a world of drugs or the sex trade. In some areas, they are [...]