The completely bilingual network of nonprofits and international aid in Guatemala. Take a look around, and if you work for an organization, church group, medical clinic, or any other group working to change the country of Guatemala, add yourself to the website! Use weGuatemala.org to connect your cause to the world, find volunteers, and team up with other organizations with similar goals. Remember...

Celebrate Mother's Day with Mayan Families! Celebrate Mother's Day with Mayan Families!      Mother's Day is May-12-2013.  We invite you to celebrate the amazing mothers we serve at Mayan Families by sending a Mother's Day Food Basket!  Every day of the year these women make tremendous sacrifices so that their children can eat, go to school, and have a chance...

This story was written by Dr. Jill Wilson This was my second trip to work with at Mission Guatemala.  My first trip was in November 2012 with a team from Zionsville United Methodist Church of Zionsville, Indiana.  During that week, we worked to build an office space onto a school in San Andres.  The rainy season had just ended and the plants and mountainsides were green and blooming.  This year, our...

Two days ago we had our Sewing Class Graduation party....there were 7 women who graduated from this sewing course.They were all very excited.Most of them have very little education...in fact, one of the women in her Thank you speech told me that she had been wanting to learn to sew for a long time but every where  a course was offered, she was not eligible because you have to have a 6th grade...

Thank you for your very kind words......I feel it is a privilege to have so many people let us into their lives...the people here face such extreme situations with so little....Ponciana's husband called a little while ago to say, through his tears, that Ponciana had left a message...she told him to tell us how grateful she was for all the help...that thanks to the help she received she was able...

Sadly , I have to tell you that Ponciana passed away an hour ago. Ponciana is the woman in her late 30's, mother to 4 children....when we found her two years ago, she had a gangerous tumor on her foot...we amputated her leg above the knee...she was the happiest person to have her leg removed....she said that the children and family could not eat with her because the smell had been so bad but...

Just as we were getting ready to finish for the afternoon today...I got the message about a young woman, 20 years old, who had drank poison in Tierra Linda.  She did this on Thursday ...trying to escape a situation where she had become involved with a married man...when she wanted to break off with her...he threatened to tell about their affair on the internet...( the double edged sword of...

Help us get on the @GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Hall of Fame! It's time to renew our Top-Rated status for 2013! We could get a trip to SIlicon Valley to meet with  leaders in philanthropy and technology or ad space worth $20,000! All you have to do is write a review of your experience with us! http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/mayan-families

Surgeon, anthropologist lead effort to bridge Western health care, indigenous cultures / UCLA Todayhttp://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/surgeon-anthropologist-seek-to-244574.aspx

Today we are celebrating the wedding of one of our staff...Rodolfo....who is 28 years old and getting married today.He has been planning his wedding for a year now.He was so nervous for the past few days I thought he would collapse but late yesterday afternoon they had the civil ceremony and today ...in one hour is the church wedding. They are having the reception at the Mayan Families office...