Maya Health Initiative in Northwestern Guatemala

Organization information

Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim: Reinforcing Our Roots, Living Our Maya Heritage

Location: Omaha, United States of America

Summary

This project will hire a medical doctor to work in two clinics and see patients via telemedicine in Akateko, Chuj and Q'anjob'al Maya communities in the northern region of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The medical doctor will work alongside community health workers and practitioners of Maya medicine to improve the health and well-being of thousands of people in remote, impoverished, indigenous communities.

Project locations

Guatemala