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Profile: Pop Wuj Medical Spanish Program

Laura — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:26:14 +0000

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 health and medical education as well as clinical experience in Guatemala.

One of the most important goals of Pop Wuj’s Medical ...complete post

Profile: Global Health Missions – UPDATED

Laura — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:28:18 +0000

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 local organizations, GIFT and Mayan Families. Each day of the mission, two clinics were run. Local social organization Mayan Families chose ...complete post

Profile: Emmaus Medical Mission

Laura — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:18:15 +0000

In 2001, a small group of doctors, nurses and volunteers traveled on the first medical mission to Sumpango, a small village in Guatemala, Central America. Their mission then and now is to provide quality medical care, medicines and vitamins free of charge for humanitarian purposes and further enhance goodwill of the United States in Latin America.

After providing free medical care, medicines and vitamins at no cost to well over a thousand needy patients, the medical ...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: ASSCA (Social Services Association – German Cooperative)

Laura — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:42:41 +0000

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 most important development institutions in Guatemala; to contribute real, tangible support to Guatemalan communities; and to improve the quality of life ...complete post

Profile: Heart to Heart

Laura — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:32:08 +0000

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. Heart to Heart supports dozens of medical teams traveling to Guatemala every year to impact health. They are also actively working ...complete post

Profile: Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni

Laura — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:48:25 +0000

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 with the information they need to stay healthy and happy and to live more peacefully.

The Clinica Comunitaria D. Comboni began ...complete post

Profile: Wuqu’ Kawoq

Laura — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:30:52 +0000

Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere. Decades of violence, corruption, and racism have stranded much of the population in poverty with uncertain prospects for the future. Although nearly 75% of the population in Guatemala is Mayan, and speaks one of over 20 different indigenous languages, there are no health care or development programs which provide services in these languages.

Wuqu’ Kawoq was founded by a group of development workers partnering with ...complete post

Profile: Primeros Pasos

Laura — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:56 +0000

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 the Palajunoj Valley, a rural valley in western Guatemala with high rates of communicable diseases, malnutrition, and untreated chronic diseases. ...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