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Agape in Action Agape in Action seeks to bring hope to the poor and disadvantaged in Guatemala by providing physical, medical and spiritual aid. Surgical care is provided at the Santa Cruz del Quiche government hospital, and volunteers serve poor Mayan Indians in rural clinic settings as well. |
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Aldo Castañeda Foundation (La Fundacion Aldo Castañeda) Guatemalan organization established to develop a high quality pediatric cardiac unit in Guatemala. Funds raised help train medical, nursing and technical personnel and also acquire the necessary equipment. Founded by top pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. Aldo Castaneda. |
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AMG International AMG International (Advancing the Ministries of the Gospel) is an evangelical mission and relief agency, currently ministering in 55 countries of the world. They have a hospital in Cubulco, Guatemala (Senorita Elena Medical) that is partly staffed by short-term medical missionaries from the U.S. and Canada. |
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Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan Support organizations for Hospitalito Atitlan-- a small private non-profit hospital serving a population of 43,000 Tz'utujil Maya on the southern shore of Lake Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala. Local physicians work with volunteer medical personnel from around the world to provide a comprehensive scope of care, including the only 24/7 emergency and surgical obstetrical care within a 2-hour radius. |
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Asociacion Pop-Wuj (Pop Wuj Clinic) Based on years of work in Xela and the rural areas that surround the city, Pop Wuj teachers believe that lack of access to healthcare is one of the most pressing problems in present-day Guatemala. The Pop Wuj Clinic exists to address that need. Since its opening, the Pop Wuj clinic has opened its doors to students and healthcare professionals interested in helping in this process with donations of time, ideas, money or equipment. |
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ASSADE ASSADE is a non governmental, non-profit organization offering primary health services, equally to the population of San Andres Itzapa and Chimaltenango. Employs two doctors and a pharmacist. Hosts medical missions. |
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Baptist Medical Missions International Baptist Medical Missions International is a program that offers free medical care by volunteer health care professionals where there is a need around the world. There are hundreds of doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses and a host of other health care professionals who make up the teams working with BMMI. Countries supported include Honduras, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. |
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Behrhorst Partners for Development This nonprofit organization's goal is to work in respectful partnership with Mayan Guatemalans to have a positive impact on the problems associated with Guatemala's history of violence against indigenous populations, natural disasters, poverty, illiteracy and disastrously high rates of infant and maternal death. |
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Casa Guatemala Casa Guatemala is an orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. This site, located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, also houses a 24 hour/25 bed on-site medical centre, which extends free treatments to thousands of children and adults per year. The infant home and clinic is entirely staffed by Guatemalans and includes: 2 doctors, 5 nurses, 7 baby sitters, a lab technician, a cook, a psychologist and 3 social workers. Dr. Alvaro Fiugeroa leads a team from the Rush Craniofacial Center in Chicago each year to perform cleft lip/cleft palate surgeries. |
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Cascade Medical Team (subsidiary of HELPS International) CMT provides free medical care to the Mayan people of the highlands of Guatemala. Annual surgical trip to Solola. |
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Children of the Americas (COTA) Each year, Children of the Americas, Inc. organizes a volunteer medical/surgical team that travels to Guatemala to provide free medical and surgical care to children and their families. Services provided include outpatient general medical treatment, plastic surgery (including cleft lip and palate repair and burn reconstruction), OB/GYN surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and dentistry. The group also includes an orthotics and prosthetics component that provides braces and prosthetic devices to children who have lost limbs due to accident or injury. |
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Childspring International Childspring helps families acquire birth certificates, passports, and visas for the child to come to the USA for the medical treatment they need. Childspring petitions doctors and hospitals to provide the most modern and technologically advanced treatments for the children. |
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Christian Service International (CSI Ministries) CSI works with churches, schools, universities, families and individuals to design custom international and national outreach experiences. CSI handles all the details and provides the assistance group leaders and coaches need to have a successful experience. Works in Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Honduras, among other countries. |
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Doctors for Global Health (DGH) Doctors for Global Health is an organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding, Doctors for Global Health has attracted volunteers, including doctors and other health care workers, students, educators, attorneys, and engineers. Most of these volunteers work within their own communities, while others have also spent from a week to over a year working in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and the United States. |
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EngenderHealth EngenderHealth works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. They provide technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce. Countries served include Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. |
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Faces of Hope--a multi club Rotary project Faces of Hope performs cleft lip and palate corrective surgeries for children at Hermano Pedro Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala. |
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Faith in Practice Faith in Practice serves the poor in Guatemala through short-term surgical, medical and dental mission trips. |
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Flying Doctors of America FDoA sends medical & dental teams to places in need, including Guatemala. |
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Glens Falls Medical Mission Foundation (GFMMF) The Glens Falls Medical Mission Foundation is a non-profit organization formed to provide services to a medically under-served area of Guatemala. They have been sending medical and dental mission teams to the village of Nueva Santa Rosa since 1997. |
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Global Health Ministry Since 1989, Global Health Ministry has sent teams of healthcare professionals to provincial villages and distressed urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean to help people with little or no access to professional healthcare. Founded as Global Outreach, a program of Eastern Mercy Heath System, today's Global Health Ministry has served over 18,000 people through the dedicated work of over 400 volunteers. |
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Global Outreach Mission Inter-denominational missionary organization that sends medical, evangelistic and/or construction teams to Guatemala. |
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Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF) GHHF aims to both educate the local medical providers and supply specialized care including hand surgery and hand therapy. GHHF welcomes volunteers of all ages and backgrounds. Annual mission alternates between summer and winter. |
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Hands of Hope Mobile medical clinic in rural Guatemala provides medical care and medicine to those who are sick and have no access to health care. Uses volunteers on short- or long-term missions. |
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Health for Humanity Canada Health for Humanity sends multidisciplinary teams of volunteer healthcare professionals to Guatemala. In addition to the surgical program Health for Humanity works with local gynecologists and a local NGO to initiate a cervical cancer screening and treatment program |
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Health Talents International, Inc. Centering largely on Guatemala, HTI operates a network of clinics in rural areas, operates one-month medical missions trips for college students, operates short-term mobile medical/dental clinics, and surgical clinics. |
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Helping Hands Medical Missions Since 1996, HHMM has hosted 16 medical missions in Mexico, 8 in El Salvador, 3 in Venezuela, 3 in Brazil, 1 in Dominican Republic, 1 in Guatemala and served more than 52,000 patients. Each mission is one week long. 5 missions are scheduled yearly. |
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HELPS International HELPS International's goal is to assist the poor of the Guatemala highlands. Sends medical/surgical teams to rural areas. 65 member highly trained medical/ surgical teams travel to rural areas throughout Guatemala. These teams are composed of general, ob/gyn, plastic and eye surgeons, dentists, pharmacists, operating room and recovery nurses, general practitioner physicians, and anesthesiologists. |
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Hirsche Smiles Foundation Provides plastic and reconstructive surgery for needy children and dental care and dental health education to families who do not have access to these services. We currently work in Guatemala and Mexico. |
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HIS Servants Ministries HIS Servants Ministries is a Christian mission organization that is active in several places throughout the world, including Guatemala and Belize. They are building a medical clinic in San Juan Ermita, Chiquimula, Guatemala and send short-term medical teams to this clinic. |
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Impact International Impact International, Inc. is Christian missionary organization. It sends missionaries and medical missionaries to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico. |
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Inter-American Health Alliance (formerly Proyecto Salud Integral) Inter-American Health Alliance (formerly Proyecto Salud Integral), is a non-profit organization currently partnered with Primeros Pasos (First Steps), a medical and and health education project located in the Palajunoj valley just outside the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The organization operates a medical clinic and Healthy Schools program that provide the only reliable source of primary care in the community. |
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International Hospital for Children (IHC) The IHC program focuses on surgery and treatment for children of Latin America, with future plans to expand areas of service. They provide critical surgeries for children at IHC Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries inculding Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras. |
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Jungle Medic Missions Jungle Medic Missions provides medical and dental care for Mayan Indians living in remote villages in the jungles, mountains and along the Rio Dulce River in Guatemala. They host teams of doctors, dentists, and other medical personnel. |
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Lifecorps International Partnered with New Covenant World Missions in Fl. to build Hospital Shalom-Peten in San Benito, Peten, Guatemala. Hospital is open and looking to host surgical teams. |
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Mano con Mano (Hand in Hand) Mano con Mano is a Christian nonprofit organization founded to provide medical, dental and vision care along with spiritual support to Mexico and Guatemala. |
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Medical Ministry International MMI is committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education. They work through short-term medical missions and by establishing permanent medical centers. |
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Medical Missions for Children(MMFC)--Surgical and Dental missions) Based in Massachusetts, and comprised of a dedicated group of volunteer surgeons, medical specialists, dentists, nurses and materials personnel, Medical Missions for Children, Inc. is a non profit organization providing free surgical, medical, and dental care to underprivileged children and young adults all over the world. Not associated with organization of same name that specializes in telemedicine (http://www.mmissions.org/). |
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Medical Missions Foundation Medical Missions Foundation provides aid to indigent people of developing and economically depressed countries throughout the world. Send 2 trips per year to Hermano Pedro hospital in Antigua, Guatemala |
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Medical Teams to Guatemala Coordinates surgery teams to Antigua, Guatemala. These teams include doctors and nurses that perform surgical procedures for the poor of Guatemala. They welcome non-medical volunteers to assist in various projects with Common Hope and other organizations within the Antigua area. |
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Medicos en Accion Medicos en Accion is a non-profit charitable organization made up of individuals whose mandate is to provide medical and surgical care to people in developing countries. Work has focused in and around the Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala. |
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Mending Kids International Mending Kids, International sends medical teams to the poorest communities of the world to help children. Whenever possible they try to assist in establishing medical programs in the foreign countries they visit. If facilities or time constraints prohibit them from performing a complicated surgery, they do their best to have the child airlifted to an American hospital. |
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Mercy Corps Mercy Corps' work in Guatemala includes strengthening a network of local non-governmental organizations and promoting maternal and child health. A long-term program serves the people of the Tucuru area. Visiting teams of dentists and eye surgeons are now regular services for the Tucurú citizens. |
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Mission Outfitters Mission Outfitter is an interdenominational ministry helping orphans, widows and the poor. The mission to Guatemala takes medical, dental and construction teams to minister to the physical needs of the poorest people. They set up clinics in local churches. |
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Missionary Ventures International MVI is a Christian healthcare ministry that sends short term medical missions to countries around the world including Guatemala, Haiti, Belize, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Belize. Volunteers welcome. |
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New Frontiers Health Force The mission of New Frontiers Health Force is to take primary care medical teams on a short-term basis to underdeveloped nations partnering with different agencies and organizations. The majority of the places teams are sent have little to no health care available. |
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New World Covenant World Missions A Christian mission group that serves in the northern area of the Petén jungle of Guatemala. They have built two hospitals and sponsored rural medical clinics. Their largest project is Hospital Shalom in San Benito, 5 miles from the International Airport Mundo Maya and 35 miles from the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal. |
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Northwest Medical Teams International, Inc. Sends over 60 volunteer teams to Central and South America each year. Projects include surgical services, dental services, community health, and construction projects. NMTI works with partners in Guatemala and Honduras. |
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Nueva Salud Nueva Salud is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce comprehensive hygiene and basicedical care to isolated villages where uncontrolled infections, parasites, and diarrhea are a permanent way of life, and doctors are not within reach. Their initial pilot village of San Antonio de la Nueva Esperanza—like a number of other in Northern Guatemala—was artificially created by the central government in 1998 at the end of the Guatemalan civil war. |
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Operation Blessing -- Guatemala Operation Blessing sponsored programs are giving Guatemalans the opportunity to lead a healthier and more educated lifestyle through community clinics, pharmacies, community first aid kits and mobile medical clinics. |
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Operation Mobilization (OM) Medical Ministries Operation Mobilization is an interdenominational missions organization dedicated to bringing hope to the peoples of the world. The effort is focused on the 10/40 Window, the area of the world where more than 90% of the unreached people groups live. OM has more than 4,000 long-term workers in 110 countries. |
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Partner for Surgery Partner For Surgery works in rural areas of Guatemala where few people have had access to surgical care. They help these rural people help themselves by providing an opportunity for access to the international surgical teams who come to Guatemala. They are actively soliciting physicians and others for medical missions to Guatemala. Has 2 fully-equipped ORs at the Centro de Salud Barbara one hour outside of Guatemala City. Surgical teams welcome. |
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Partners in Development (PID) PID offers child sponsorship, microcredit, housing and medical help in P-au-P, Haiti and in San Bernardino, Guatemala. |
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Partners in Health-ETESC Partners in Health teams with ETESC (aka Technical Team for Education in Community Health) on concrete initiatives to improve mental health in the communities of the border province of Huehuetenango. |
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Physicians for Peace Physicians For Peace sends teams of medical volunteers, including physicians, dentists, nurses and other health professionals, on medical missions to places where their healing skills are needed. Guatemala programs include dental clinics, burn compression units, and the establishment of sustainable prosthetic and rehabilitation centers. |
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Planned Parenthood International-- Guatemala PPI works with partner organizations to prevent maternal death and disability by increasing access to contraceptives and reducing unsafe abortions. Partner organizations provide clinic- and community-based outreach activities designed to increase the use of contraceptives and other services by adolescents; decrease unsafe abortion practices; and improve the social, legal, and political climate regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights. |
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Planned Parenthood International-- Guatemala PPI focuses on preventing maternal death and disability by increasing access to contraceptives and reducing unsafe abortions. Partner organizations provide clinic- and community-based outreach activities designed to increase the use of contraceptives and other services by adolescents; decrease unsafe abortion practices; and improve the social, legal, and political climate regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights. |
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Primeros Pasos Primeros Pasos works to offer quality and affordable healthcare and health education to the underserved communities of the Palajunoj valley just outside of Quetzaltenango, a small city in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Combines clinical care, basic laboratory analysis, in-clinic education and school-based outreach programs. |
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Project HANDS Project HANDS promotes improvement in health, education and living conditions for impoverished people. Current focus is on medical triage and surgical trips to rural Guatemala. |
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Project HOPE in Guatemala Project HOPE's focus is primarily on the rural Mayan populations, where the infant and child mortality rate is far above the national average. Through HOPE's education and community health programs, hundreds of community health volunteers and traditional birth attendants have been trained -- mostly in remote villages -- to provide basic primary and preventive health care services to women and young children. |
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Proyecto Salud y Paz (Project Health and Peace) Proyecto Salud y Paz is a ministry of health and healing for the people in Guatemala. Salud y Paz operates two clinics that serve the poor Mayan population in Guatemala. Visiting teams serve at the clinics. |
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Reciprocal Ministries International (RMI) Reciprocal Ministries International (RMI) develops Sister Church relationships between Evangelical churches located throughout Haiti, Jamaica and Guatemala. Medical teams hold clinics in the areas surrounding the churches. |
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Rotaplast International The goal of Rotaplast International is to eliminate the incidence of untreated cleft lips and palates in children worldwide by the year 2025. Rotaplast facilitates medical missions to provide surgical intervention for children who are not able to receive treatment or who are in need of more complicated medical procedures than can be provided by local physicians. |
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Surgicorps International Surgicorps International travels the world to provide free surgical and medical care to disadvantaged individuals in developing countries. Sends one trip per year to Antigua, Guatemala. |
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The Bridge of Life - DaVita Medical Missions The goal of Bridge of Life is to reach out to people who are affected by chronic kidney disease and live in developing countries and in the U.S. Recent project included working nephrologists in Roosevelt hospital in Guatemala to provide pediatric dialysis. |
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The Shalom Foundation The Shalom Foundation provides humanitarian assistance and financial support to children living in extreme poverty. The Medical Missions Initiative (MMI) is their strategy for addressing the health needs of children in Guatemala. This initiative includes facilitating week-long surgery trips. |
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Vamos Adelante The Vamos Adelante Foundation provides education, health and nutrition services to poor people in over 18 villages in the region of Esquintla, Guatemala. They host teams at a medical clinic in Guadelupe El Zapote. |
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Vine International Christian organization that has deloped a concept of a Pipeline of Resources – a simple aid distribution system for medical missions – by first learning to serve one country – Guatemala. |
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Vine International Christian organization that has deloped a concept of a Pipeline of Resources – an aid distribution system for medical missions – by first learning to serve one country – Guatemala. They also organize short-term medical teams. |
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Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH/International) VOSH volunteers are optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists, and medical personnel in 33 chapters. During the year 2003 VOSH completed more than 90 missions serving over 140,000 people. Missions are from one to two weeks. In addition VOSH has helped establish permanent eye clinics in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico . Their programs provide recycled eyeglasses, treat eye disease and perform eye surgery. |
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Volunteers in Medical Missions (VIMM) VIMM teams take medical care, medication, vitamins, supplies & Christian love and concern to impoverished areas of the world. Teams travel to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. |
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WINGS: Reproductive Health for Women and Men in Guatemala WINGS' mission is to increase access to contraception and reproductive health care by addressing common obstacles such as geographic isolation, lack of financial resources and education, and cultural barriers. They work with Guatemalan Non-Governmental Organizations and government health centers, reaching out to rural communities, subsidizing the cost of family planning methods, providing cervical cancer screening for the poorest Guatemalans, and offering seminars on reproductive health to rural poor Guatemalans. |