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Profile: Foundation for the Higher Good

Laura — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:21:15 +0000

The Foundation for the Higher Good (FHG) is a fund-raising advocate for results-oriented charities that directly impact people’s lives. From alleviating hunger, disease and physical abuse to facilitating education, home-building and nurse training , they focus their efforts on helping to make a difference in the lives of children.

Guatemala Project: FHG has been providing funding and supplies for medical care and ongoing education for the native Mayan Indian people in Chichicastenango, El Quiche through the ASELSI ministry. ...complete post

Profile: ASELSI

Laura — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:18:54 +0000

ASELSI is a ministry located in the mountains of Chichicastenango. Their projects include:

A health-care ministry training local Mayans in pharmacy, physical therapy, eye care, nutrition, milk program and prayerful evangelism; A leadership training center with extensions throughout Guatemala, Ecuador, Chiapas, Mexico and the United States;

Connecting medical, construction, teaching and evangelical teams from the United States with Guatemala; and

Transforming communities for the Glory of God. To learn more about ASELSI, please visit their website at ASELSI.org. or ...complete post

Profile: Mayan Hope

Laura — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:58:31 +0000

Mayan Hope is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing educational, nutritional, medical, ecological, and other needed services to indigenous families, villages, and abandoned or abused children of Guatemala and other Latin American nations. They are a direct and hands-on charitable organization meaning that, as such, they work in close cooperation and side-by-side with the people in the communities where projects are located.

Education: Education is the foundation and primary purpose of Mayan Hope. They believe that ...complete post

Profile: Enfoque Ixcan

Laura — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:49 +0000

Enfoque Ixcán, founded by Dr. Scott Pike, is a non-profit organization which provides eye care to a remote jungle region of Guatemala. Dr. Pike is a professor at Pacific University College of Optometry. Their program is unique in that they train, equip and otherwise enable local eye health promoters to provide eye care so that they can serve their communities on a year around basis. They provide basic eye exams, eye glasses, eye health education ...complete post

Upcoming Trip: VOSH Eye Clinic – El Quiche

Laura — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:15:38 +0000

VOSH is hosting an eye clinic in Ixcan, El Quiche from June 12-22. They will provide an eye examination for the treatment of refractive error and certain eye diseases. Patients receive eyeglasses, sunglasses, medication and are referred for consultation and eye surgery. For questions or patient referrals, please contact Ann at annedmonds@comcast.net// .

Profile: VOSH

Laura — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:01:00 +0000

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 sustainable eye clinics, funding essential ophthalmic infrastructure, and establishing partnerships with like-minded organizations.

VOSH recognizes the importance of sustainability, and has ...complete post

Profile: Save the Children / Felix Aguilar Ramírez

Laura — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:43:43 +0000

Save the Children and the Ad Council are working together to mobilize citizen action in the U.S. to help local health workers help save more children worldwide.

Eye on the Future by Felix Aguilar Ramírez (local health worker in Xachmochán Village, Guatemala): This week I visited several children with diarrhea. Among them, a few already had dehydration issues from persistent diarrhea. Without oral rehydration treatment, children can get very sick from diarrhea, and in ...complete post

Profile: Project HANDS

Laura — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:56:30 +0000

Project HANDS is a group of people whose goal is to provide healthcare, education and other support to those who, by chance of birth, have lives less fortunate than their own. Their projects are aimed at improving the quality of rural Mayan life by providing healthcare and education.

Healthcare: Because the Maya have little or no access to medical care, the group sends medical teams to run outreach clinics, and surgical teams to perform elective surgery. ...complete post

Exchange: Patient Referrals – OB/Gyn & Clefts

Laura — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:18:07 +0000

Agape in Action is currently accepting patient referrals for OB/Gyn surgery, and Plastic Surgery (clefts). The team will be in Quiche from June 13-17. Please click here for more details.

Profile: Engineers Without Borders

Laura — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:04:57 +0000

Dubbed the “Blueprint Brigade,” by Time Magazine, Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) grew from little more than a handful of members in 2002 to over 12,000 today.

EWB-USA has over 350 projects in over 45 developing countries around the world including water, renewable energy, sanitation and more. These projects are completed in partnership with local communities and NGOs. EWB-USA helps create a more stable and prosperous world by addressing people’s basic human needs by providing necessities such ...complete post