Yes.

We became a legal non profit 501c3 in the USA, with NHF with our base clinic in Guatemala in October of 2003. We have been operating under this NGO until 2008. In 2005 we became a legally registered non-lucrativo (NGO) foundation here in Guatemala. Currently we are processing our donations though another NGO umbrella for tax exemption statis. 

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Our clinic has five running programs which support the community in various ways. Our base clinic, Clinica Naturista, uses medical equipment,supplies and materials. Our Orphan program which supports 26 Mayan children and their mothers or guardians, need financial donations as well as dry goods such as clothes, shoes and school supplies. The Midwife training program uses specific medical supplies as we distribute them amongst 8 villages, and 59 Indigenous midwives. Gloves, guazes, scissors, hemostats, birth supplies just to name a few. Emergancy Transport and Ambulance program uses mostly disposible materials. Lastly Outreach centers around surrounding communities with particular needs, We coordinate with visiting medical teams who perform surgeries, dental work, trainings, and general clinics for those with greater needs.

You can find a LIST OF NEEDS on our sitemap on the homepage. Monetary donations click
Donation for more info.

Due to the politics here in Guatemala, we have found that the best way to get us the donations is to make arrangements for visitors and volunteers to carry them down in their baggage. You can email us, tell us what you got and we will make the connections for your donations to get to us. Over the years we have found that some materials or supplies are better bought here in Guatemala.
All monetary donations go into the general fund and get distributed to the areas of greatest needs. 
We are looking for assistance with our orphan program, ask how you can help.

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YES  

We do accept the help of volunteers.  We get many inquiries from volunteers looking to offer their skills, so we have made a list of some requirements to help in your decision: We ask that all volunteers pay their own expenses, have moderate to good Spanish skills, be a team player, volunteer for a minimum of 3 months,(although we do make exceptions), be self motivated individuals, Internship experience, or specialty skills in medical, alternative medicine, midwifery, administrative or fund raising, computer skills, must be adventurous and have a sence of humor.  Sometimes we get persons who want to come for a shorter time and offer a specific skill; for example, first aide,CPR, emergency transport, first responder, firemen, trainers for health care and birth control, etc.   
We invite such individuals or groups for this purpose.  FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact us by email

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With the aide of many NGO`s from all over the world our immmediate in San Marcos for food , drinking water and clothes were addressed very quickly.  Over the long haul it had been months of moving rocks, meters of rocks, soil and distruction. It was a tremendous effort by everyone together to clean the mess. We still have families who have no land left to build on. 

Clinicas Maya is assisted in this effort to get everyone housed and back to their regular life style.  The people are still experiencing stress and post hurrican trama everytime we get a hard rain that goes for more than one night.  There are mud slides that continue to block  road ways and move down in small areas after a day of hard rain tipical of this time a year.  We are organizing disaster groups in our area and doing a bit of training, stocking needed supplies in case we have another scare. 

Clinicas Maya pulled through the disaster as the walls of rushing water, boulders and trees, made there way down but went around our clinic on both side.  We shoveled out about a meter of mud and sludge from our bottom floors as soon as was possible.  Of course our gardens all were waterlogged and ruined but this was a small price to pay for what could have been.  The town people said we were blessed, God had spared us. We seem to think so,too. It is May of 2009 and our spirits are high and it`s business as usual

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We are primarily a health care clinic who service
90% indigenous Mayan people. We currently accept volunteers who speak Spanish, interns or have medical experience, also in womens health practicing naturopaths, midwives, acupuncturists,chiropractors, Experience in medicinal plants and gardening, homeopathy, teaching birth control, hygiene and nutricion. office and computer skills. In the course of your volunteering, many training experiences become available due to your proximity.  We are dedicated and service minded people who`s focus is offering reliable and sustainable resources for the shoreline villages of Lake Atitlan.  So how you fit into this lifestyle is entirely up to you.
For more information, go to our site map on the home page and click on LIST OF NEEDS.

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Currently, MAY 2009, we are experiencing various questionable situations in the capital due to politics.  I will add that This sort of thing has been occuring on and off over the past 9 years and probably will continue.  As far as safety for travelers in our location, we are not experiencing any threats or injuries to fellow travelers at  this time.  It seems there is a frequency of events around the time of the elections here in Guatemala. 
It is recommended by the US Embassy to first check the internet for any current travel advisories before you begin your journey into foreign countries.

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We are located on Lake Atitlan, in the shoreline village of SAN MARCOS LA LAGUNA, about 80 miles east of our capital city off of the trasamerican highway that runs from Guatemala City to the boarder of Mexico. Check our sitemap on the homepage for a map of our location.

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