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 [...]
Tag Archives: Quetzaltenango
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 [...]
Article: Alarming Spread of Dengue in Guatemala
Posted by Laura on July 2, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a July 1, 2010 article published by InsideCostaRica.com. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA – Guatemalan health authorities issued a red alert and began a drive to reduce the rising number of dengue cases and growing Aedes Aegipty mosquito population reported in the first six [...]
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: 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: Let’s Be Ready
Posted by Laura on March 30, 2010
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Let’s Be Ready’s mission is to prepare at-risk Guatemalan children for the first-grade by establishing preschools and training preschool and first-grade teachers. Their vision is to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala by reducing the high rate of drop-out and repetition of children in the first-grade. Their goal is to have 80% of [...]
Profile: Thirteen Threads (Oxlajuj B’atz)
Posted by Laura on March 9, 2010
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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 [...]
Profile: Asturias Academy
Posted by Laura on March 9, 2010
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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 [...]
Project Updates: Water Charity
Posted by Laura on March 4, 2010
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Last September, we published a profile of a great organization called Water Charity. Now, we would like to update you with Water Charity’s most current projects in Guatemala: Coxjac School Latrine Project: This is a project to construct three latrines for a school system in rural Guatemala. The process will also incorporate lessons involving the [...]
Profile: Iowa M.O.S.T.
Posted by Laura on March 1, 2010
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Iowa MOST is a Rotary District 6000 initiative, which provides surgical repair for cleft lip and palate to individuals living in the western highlands of Guatemala. Without Iowa MOST, they would not be given this opportunity. District 6000 Rotarians have cultivated a strong collaborative partnership with their friends in the Rotary Club of Huehuetenango, Guatemala [...]
Profile: El Nahual
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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El Nahual Community Center was founded in 2004 in order to address shortcomings in the Guatemalan national education system, particularly in Quetzaltenango and its surrounding communities. El Nahual is located on the outskirts of Quetzaltenango in a sector called Pacajá. This location, which straddles urban and rural areas, was chosen to allow El Nahual to serve as a [...]
Profile: The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Posted by Laura on January 25, 2010
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The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water. Through a combination of business incubation, education, and outreach, they help people get technology that will better their health and improve their lives. Many rural communities and urban shantytowns in developing countries do not [...]
Profile: Guatemala Literacy Project
Posted by Laura on January 11, 2010
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The Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) is a partnership between North American & Guatemalan Rotary clubs and the non-profit organization Cooperative for Education (CoEd). This initiative provides badly-needed textbooks, library materials, and computer labs to underprivileged children in Guatemala. The Project has been supported by over 300 Rotary Clubs. Since 1996, the textbook program has been [...]
Profile: Pop Wuj Spanish School
Posted by Laura on September 14, 2009
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Asociación Centro de Estudios de Español Pop Wuj (pronounced “pope-woo”), set in Highland Guatemala, is a collectively owned and operated Spanish language school that has been serving an international crowd of students since our immersion program began in 1992. Through a unique mix of intensive language study and social service projects, students come to a [...]
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: Timmy Foundation
Posted by Laura on September 5, 2009
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Founded in 1997 by Dr. Chuck Dietzen, Timmy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based out of Indianapolis, Indiana that channels resources to sustainable health projects in developing countries. Partnering with established NGOs in Ecuador and Guatemala, the Timmy Foundation sends a group of volunteers every two-three months to perform medical relief in underserved [...]
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 [...]