•  The Inter-American Health Alliance is partnering with Ch'ina us li Amaq'ink (CHILA inc.) to assist them in their efforts to create a clinic in the Chisec area in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. CHILA is a volunteer-run organization based in Johnson City, Tennessee and is affiliated with ETSU School of Medicine.

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• CHILA works closely with Asociacion Q'ana Tz'uul Taq'a "The Women of The Spirit of The Hillside"- a Maya Q'ech'i womens group from the villages surrounding the town of Chisec. They have experience working with traditional Mayan medicine and are eager to work on a collaborative project to improve the quality of health care services in their area.

• Our Goals For the Clinical Program:

• Construction/Maintenance of A Clinic
  
• equipped exam rooms
• laboratory
• pharmacy
  
• sanitation infrastructure

• Healthy Schools Program
  
• Training members of women’s group to facilitate dynamic classes with children in local elementary schools on basic health topics

You can make a tax-deductible donation to the CHILA/Chisec clinic program below.  You will receive your tax receipt from the Inter-American Health Alliance.

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Donations by check should be made payable to "Inter-American Health Alliance"

Please make sure to write CHILA/Chisec on the "For:" line.

 

Our mailing address is:

Inter-American Health Alliance

PMB #351804

2301 Vanderbilt Place

Nashville, TN 37235

United States of America

Budget For Program In Chisec:

 

Chisec, Alta Verapaz is located 76 kilometers north of the city of Cobán, the state capitol, and 289 km north of Guatemala City.  200,000 people live in Chisec, 98% of which are Maya Q´eqchi and speak and understand limited Spanish. 180,000 of these live in hamlets of 20-100 families. The county seat of Chisec is a 6,000 person town with basic services that include electricity, water, commerce and a paved road connection to larger cities.

The Maya Q’eqchi’ in Alta Verapaz suffer some of the worst poverty and health conditions in the country. Many of these problems are rooted in the recently-ended 36-year civil war which affected the area particularly hard. Nearly 90% of the very poor are indigenous, subsistence farmers living on mountainous terrain.

Accessing quality medical care is extremely difficult for the Maya Q’eqchi population in Chisec . Health outcomes for this specific population are some of the worst in Guatemala.