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The Family Support Center
The Family Support Center serves indigenous, mostly single-parent families by providing a safe environment for 36 children while parents work outside the home. We provide holistic care through educational support, homework help, medical assistance, and hot lunches and snacks.
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32 Volcanes Clinic
The 32 Volcanes Clinic does not just treat illness. They focus on prevention, education, exercise, and improving habits and diets. Serving hundreds of patients each year, the Clinic provides care for patients with chronic illnesses, including diabetes and hypertension; well care for the children and families at the Family Support Center as well as for all students in the Scholarship Program. The Clinic now also offers mental health treatment and physical therapy.
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Environmental Projects
Asociación 32 Volcanes continues to develop and improve several agroecological projects including family and community gardens, reforestation, oyster mushroom modules, and environmental education.
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Photo by Jeff Leventhal
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The Nutrition Program
Guatemala’s rate of chronic malnutrition, also known as stunting, in children under age 5 is almost 50%, the highest in Central America and among the highest in the world. Each year the Nutrition Program treats approximately 120 babies in four rural, indigenous communities near Xela where the chronic malnutrition rate is even higher. Participants receive 18 to 54 months of treatment for malnutrition and any other illnesses as well as education and additional support to participating mothers. |
