November 2010 Mission to Guatemala Curamerica’s work in Guatemala continues as they focus on Health System Strengthening and Maternal and Child Survival. They are recruiting medical and non-medical volunteers to participate in this expedition to Guatemala. Curamericas Global’s National Program Director, Dr. Mario Valdez, is the only medical doctor for the more than 66,000 people [...]
Tag Archives: Huehuetenango
Profile: Curamericas Global, Inc.
Posted by Laura on June 22, 2010
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Curamericas Global partners with underserved communities to make measurable and sustainable improvements in their health and wellbeing. Since 1983, they have been working to reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in regions that lack basic health services. They also organize short-term volunteer trips to their project sites in Guatemala, Bolivia, Haiti and Liberia, where [...]
Profile: Water for the Americas
Posted by Laura on May 26, 2010
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Water for the Americas is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization founded in 2002 as a publicly supported charity. Their charter is to assist communities in the Americas in evaluating, developing and protecting water resources to ensure safe, sustainable water supplies and improve the living conditions and quality of life for people. They work directly with the [...]
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: 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: Project Concern International/Casa Materna
Posted by Laura on March 25, 2010
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Project Concern International (PCI) is a non-profit health and humanitarian aid organization dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. PCI began working in Guatemala in 1974, bringing basic health care to Mayan communities around Lake Atitlan. Throughout the 1980s, during the civil war that ravaged Guatemala, PCI trained an extensive network [...]
Profile: Student Association for International Water Issues
Posted by Laura on March 10, 2010
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The Student Association for International Water Issues, or SAIWI is a student organization at the University of Nevada, Reno, whose mission is to develop an understanding of global water issues and promote community empowerment through education and water resources development in developing countries. SAIWI’s mission is to develop an understanding of global water issues and [...]
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: Seeds of Help
Posted by Laura on March 1, 2010
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Seeds of Help Foundation is a private not-for-profit organization that provides grassroots-level assistance to improve the lives of people in developing nations through educational programs and construction projects. Currently, Seeds of Help Foundation serves 30 remote communities in a department (region) known as Huehuetenango, located in the western highlands of Guatemala where families survive by subsistence [...]
Profile: Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 26, 2010
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Adopt-a-Village (AAV) in Guatemala is a small, grassroots non-profit that works with remote villages in the rugged Northwestern Highlands region. This is an area of extreme poverty with few public services or other forms of assistance. AAV partners with leaders of these Mayan villages to build a more promising and sustainable future for their children [...]
Profile: Engineers Without Borders – Wisconsin Chapter
Posted by Laura on September 28, 2009
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The Wisconsin Professional Partners Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-WPP) has approximately 175 members and is currently working on Guatemalan projects independently, and with four universities in the area: The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), Marquette University (MU), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and Michigan Technological University (MTU). EWP-WPP is currently working on bridge [...]