About Health&Help
Health&Help is a humanitarian aid organization, dedicated to improving the quality of life of people by organizing and providing medical care to those in need around the world.
Health&Help is a charitable clinic in Guatemalan mountains. More than 700 patients are examined in the clinic every month; the majority of them are pregnant women and children.
Our organization is existing thanks to donations; nobody gets paid here. Money is spent on medical supplies and volunteers’ basic needs.
The clinic in Guatemala
Our primary line of work is to provide Totonikapan area - home to 15, 000 people - with medical attention. The clinic is located in the village of Chuinajtajuyub. We are developing special programs simultaneously:
Child Hunger Solutions
Child malnutrition rate is one of the highest in Guatemala: 56, 9% of children under 5 years old are suffering from food insecurity in rural communities. Together with The Department of Health, we offer solutions by overseeing infants and toddlers on a regular basis, providing their families with appropriate information as well as malnutrition treatment, vitamins and anthelmintic medication. All children in critical condition are treated under our doctors' supervision at the clinic. Nobody is left behind.
Birth control
Birth control
More than 80% of women in rural communities enter into a marriage as teenagers - at the age of 12 - and become a mother of six children on average. More than 90% of them would rather not have such a big family. We are introducing birth control methods to the local community, offering family planning options - including long-term contraception - to prevent unwanted pregnancy. We believe that every woman has the right to choose when to become a mother and how many children to have.
Motherhood and childhood
Motherhood and childhood
The majority of women find out they are pregnant in the second trimester. This is a very dangerous situation for both the mother and the child as the mother hasn't been receiving the necessary care and nutrition on time, probably, has been even taking unsafe medication. Improper communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions are cause of death for 34% of the population. We are fighting for women's right to visit a doctor during the early stages of pregnancy in order to protect her and her unborn child's health. We believe that every life matters.
Diabetes
Diabetes
There are a lot of people, suffering from type 1 diabetes, in Guatemala. This is a genetic disease, disconnected with eating habits, which cause 5% of all deaths.
The government is not able to provide treatment for all diabetes patients, therefore we are helping them to overcome the disease with insulin treatments. Most of the patients arrive to our clinic in critical condition and need to be hospitalized. We are doing all we can to stabilize and rehabilitate them. At the same time, we are providing the local community with appropriate information, giving lectures on public health.
Who do we help?
We makes other people’s lives better. Our patients’, our volunteers’ and our own lives. The main rule is ‘do not harm’. This commandment help us make the right decisions whether taking patients or volunteers. We believe each person has the right to live without pain. We believe every woman has the right to have access to birth control, have a safe pregnancy and delivery.
Mayan Indians are ancestors of our patients, who have been discriminated for a very long time, suffering genocide and bullying of all kinds. An average woman in Guatemala has seven children; the majority of the population works on plants, cultivating corn and trying to survive on 1$ a day.
People we work with are unlikely to get to another medical facility as they don’t have money or they are afraid of racial discrimination. We help everybody, never seeing their skin tone, religious preferences or sex. Our patients are the most precious things we have. We take care of each child as if it was our own; we treat each old woman as if she was our mother. We do not reject anybody, offering any help a patient might need.
The government is not able to provide treatment for all diabetes patients, therefore we are helping them to overcome the disease with insulin treatments. Most of the patients arrive to our clinic in critical condition and need to be hospitalized. We are doing all we can to stabilize and rehabilitate them. At the same time, we are providing the local community with appropriate information, giving lectures on public health.
Who do we help?
We makes other people’s lives better. Our patients’, our volunteers’ and our own lives. The main rule is ‘do not harm’. This commandment help us make the right decisions whether taking patients or volunteers. We believe each person has the right to live without pain. We believe every woman has the right to have access to birth control, have a safe pregnancy and delivery.
Mayan Indians are ancestors of our patients, who have been discriminated for a very long time, suffering genocide and bullying of all kinds. An average woman in Guatemala has seven children; the majority of the population works on plants, cultivating corn and trying to survive on 1$ a day.
People we work with are unlikely to get to another medical facility as they don’t have money or they are afraid of racial discrimination. We help everybody, never seeing their skin tone, religious preferences or sex. Our patients are the most precious things we have. We take care of each child as if it was our own; we treat each old woman as if she was our mother. We do not reject anybody, offering any help a patient might need.
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