We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
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.
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.
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.
AMIGOS Eye Care is affiliated with VOSH Int'l and conducts annual optometric mission trips to Guatemala.
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 Atitlan 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.
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.
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.
Austin Smiles conducts 2-3 surgical missions annually to Latin American countries, including Guatemala. Surgical teams conduct cleft palate/cleft lip surgeries as well as providing post surgical care.
CARE, International is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE is focused on community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
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.
CMT provides free medical care to the Mayan people of the highlands of Guatemala. Annual surgical trip to Solola.
Centro Maya Project is located in San Juan La Laguna Sololá, Guatemala. They provide humanitarian, educational, and medical assistance to indigenous Mayan families, with a focus on those families with disabled children. They offer medical/dental services at Clínica Sanjuanerita (http://www.odimguatemala.org/?page_id=59).
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.
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.
CERT International sends short term medical and dental mission teams to countries throughout Central America and the Caribbean.
Circle of Love Foundation offers humanitarian relief, micro-development projects, and short term medical missions to countries worldwide, including, Guatemala.
Concern America sends long-term volunteers to Guatemala and other underdeveloped countries to work with communities to identify needs and develop local solutions. Concern America's primary focus is on health care, clean water, income generation, and education.
In conjunction with several organizations, Curamericas has established a network of thousands of local community health workers and volunteers providing health services and health education to the people of Northwest Guatemala.
DOCARE International organization comprised of health care professionals representing many disciplines. The all-volunteer membership includes physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, physician assistants and interested lay people who contribute special skills. A medical outreach organization, DOCARE's primary objective is to bring needed health care to primitive and isolated people in remote areas of Western Hemisphere countries.
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.
Faces of Hope performs cleft lip and palate corrective surgeries for children at Hermano Pedro Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala.
Faith in Practice serves the poor in Guatemala through short-term surgical, medical and dental mission trips.
FDoA sends medical & dental teams to places in need, including Guatemala.
Free to Smile Foundation is dedicated to supporting and sustaining comprehensive, quality surgical and dental services to poor and underprivileged children and adolescents throughout the world. Free to Smile Foundation volunteers and partner organizations provide free cleft lip/palate surgery, dental and educational care.
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.
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.
Global Health Reach works with medically underserved populations worldwide. They aim to establish relationships and identify the specific needs of each community. In addition, they provide education and conduct short term medical missions to several countries, including Guatemala.
Inter-denominational missionary organization that sends medical, evangelistic and/or construction teams to Guatemala.
Great Commission Air a Christian organization that is located in the Ixcan Region of Guatemala and provides air transportation for Christian missions as well as emergency medical flights for patients in Guatemala.
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.
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.
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
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.
Heart to Heart International (HHI) is improving global health through humanitarian initiatives that connect people and resources to a world in need. Heart to Heart International currently serves in countries worldwide including Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.
Hearts in Motion operates numerous medical and community programs within Central and South America. In Guatemala they are involved with a rehabilitation center, nutrition center and a newly constructed orphanage. Hearts in Motion also coordinates short term medical, surgical and construction trips to countries including Guatemala and Honduras.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iaomai Medical Ministries is a non-profit organization providing advanced healthcare services to underserved populations worldwide, including Guatemala. Iaomai Medical Ministries conducts an annual surgical mission to Guatemala in conjunction with HELPS International.
The International Esperanza Project (IEP) is focused on healthcare, community development and girl empowerment in developing countries, including Guatemala. IEP's healthcare mission teams include general surgeons, plastic surgeons, gynecologists, eye surgeons, dermatologists and many other specialties.
The International Surgical Health Initiative (ISHI) is a non-profit organization that provides free surgical care to underserved communities worldwide, including Haiti and Guatemala.
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.
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.
LIMBS International sends short-term mission teams of physical therapists and prosthetists to underserved countries, including Guatemala.
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/).
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
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.
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.
MedLend is a non-profit organization that conducts medical and surgical missions in developing countries, including Guatemala.
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