Sharing the Dream in Guatemala is a non-profit organization that promotes fair trade with cooperatives and small businesses in Guatemala. Sharing the Dream is working very hard so that through their work, families can afford to educate their children, provide health care, and promote healthy living in their own families. In late June 2010, Sharing the Dream hosted a [...]
Tag Archives: Sololá
Profile: Global Health Missions – UPDATED
Posted by Laura on July 25, 2010
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Global Health Missions is a non-profit organization founded by two physician assistants and an accountant who met in Guatemala while doing volunteer work in 2009. GHM is founded on the belief that the underserved in developing countries should also have access to quality healthcare. GHM’s first medical mission involved 10 practitioners, 9 translators, and two [...]
**UPDATED** Current Need: Pediatric Burn Case
Posted by Laura on July 22, 2010
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UPDATE: Link for Health was able to network this case to The Shalom Foundation, which will have a plastic surgery team in Guatemala City in November. A $200 donation has been pledged to Mayan Families for this child in order to pay for his transportation to the team. Plastic Surgery is needed for an eight [...]
**UPDATED** Ongoing Need: Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Posted by Laura on July 22, 2010
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Update: Children of the Americas was able to secure six months of donated medications for this child, thanks to a generous contribution by a pharmacist in Texas. Jody Greenlee will deliver them to Dr. Lyle on July 31st, during her visit to Panajachel. A seven year old Guatemalan girl has severe Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis lives [...]
Article: Stanford Students Bring Much-Needed Health Care to Rural Guatemala
Posted by Laura on July 2, 2010
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The following excerpt and video is from a June 30, 2010 blog article posted in the Stanford University News. It details the experiences of a team of medical students, led by Dr. Paul Wise, on an annual trip to San Lucas Tolimán. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. For more than [...]
Profile: Heart to Heart
Posted by Laura on June 15, 2010
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Heart to Heart International has been creating a healthier world since 1992. Whether they are providing medical education, delivering medical aid to a hospital and clinic, responding to people in crisis or addressing community-health concerns around the world, Heart to Heart has one big goal: Making the world a healthier place to live and work. [...]
Lake Atitlan Area Medical Care – Wuqu’ Kawoq
Posted by Laura on June 9, 2010
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Current as of June 9 – Wuqu’ Kawoq (www.wuqukawoq.org): Atencion medica in the coming week: 6/10/10 – Paya’; 6/11/10 – Paquip; 6/12/10 – Santa Apolonia; 6/14/10 – Santa Catarina Palopo. Please visit their website often for updates on their work in area villages.
Profile: Save the Children / Felix Aguilar Ramírez
Posted by Laura on May 10, 2010
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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 [...]
Profile: Mil Milagros
Posted by Laura on May 6, 2010
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Mil Milagros (“A Thousand Miracles”) was founded in 2007 by Margaret Blood, a bilingual advocate for children who is the Founder and President of Strategies for Children, Inc., an award-winning child policy and advocacy organization based in Boston. Mil Milagros was inspired by Margaret’s volunteer work at Proyecto Semilla, a school for child workers in [...]
Profile: Engineers Without Borders
Posted by Laura on April 28, 2010
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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 [...]
Profile: A Thread of Hope
Posted by Marian on April 22, 2010
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A Thread of Hope is a fair trade web store featuring items from Guatemala. Eliza Strode, the owner, is a clinical social worker who went to Guatemala in 1997 to learn Spanish. Previously a food co-op manager in Cambridge, MA, she visited a number of artisans’ cooperatives in Guatemala. Eliza started selling Fairly-Traded products from Guatemala in 2001. She has [...]
Profile: Maya Traditions
Posted by Laura on April 22, 2010
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In 1988, Maya Traditions founder Jane Mintz, an experienced social worker (MSW) and weaver, began working with indigenous women artisans living in poverty in Guatemala. She observed that their skill of backstrap weaving was a chance for them to earn a stable income for their families while working from home doing what they were already [...]
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: Hope Alliance
Posted by Laura on April 1, 2010
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Transforming Critical Need into Sustainable Change The mission of The Hope Alliance is to empower impoverished people with the skills and tools they need to create positive change in the lives of their families and in their villages. The Hope Alliance also educates and exposes volunteers to the situation of those in developing countries. The [...]
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: Roots & Wings International
Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010
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Roots and Wings International promotes elementary through university education in rural Guatemala. They work with indigenous youth whose families earn $2 per day growing coffee. Their work is rooted in recognizing the importance of culturally responsive education that empowers students to connect their cultural identity with sustainable social and economic development. Student Scholarship: Roots & Wings International [...]
Urgent Need: Cleft Baby *UPDATED*
Posted by Laura on March 17, 2010
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Our friends at Casa de Sion have seen a baby today who needs some help. I believe that the family is in Solola, but we will have to confirm that with Vicki. Please read their report, and email Vicki at the address below, or click on the “Leave a Comment” link below, if you have [...]
Profile: Pan en la Boca
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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Pan En La Boca is a not-for-profit corporation that was organized to help provide necessities and services to the people of Latin America who live in poverty. It is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Through its recent endeavors, various groups in Guatemala have received food, clothing, medical care and housing. All of the people who currently [...]
Profile: Safe Homes for Children
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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Safe Homes for Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation set up to support Casa de Sion, an orphanage in Los Robles near Panajachel. On 17 acres of farmland, they have a 2500 sq. ft. building that is used for their orphanage. They take street children as well as children whose parents cannot afford to feed or [...]
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: 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: The Aid and Education Project
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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The mission of The Aid & Education Project is to promote education in indigenous communities in Guatemala. Their primary program for promoting education in Guatemala is to offer scholarships to deserving students. They also have programs to promote computer literacy, to teach English, and to preserve the local culture. Additionally, there are special programs for [...]
Profile: Niños del Lago
Posted by Laura on February 17, 2010
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Niños del Lago is a unique children’s project designed to transform the lives of Guatemala’s most impoverished children. Their goal is to help at-risk children stay in school, and succeed in school. After extensive research, Niños del Lago was founded in 2004 to support and extend the work of privately-funded, not-for-profit educational programs created for [...]
Profile: Orphan Outreach
Posted by Laura on February 17, 2010
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Orphan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to glorifying the Lord through reaching out to the millions of at risk children throughout the world. Since their founding in 2007, they have acted as instruments of Christ impacting the lives of those they serve. Ministering primarily in Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Russia, they support a [...]
Profile: Project C.U.R.E.
Posted by Laura on February 3, 2010
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One day, one hospital, one patient at a time, PROJECT C.U.R.E. is changing the world! PROJECT C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief & Equipment) was founded in 1987 to help meet the need for medical supplies, equipment and services around the world. PROJECT C.U.R.E. builds sustainable healthcare infrastructure by providing the medical supplies and equipment that [...]