International Service

For our final day of volunteer work, we visited the HIM Nutrition Center in Gualan. This facility is home to children who have been found severely malnourish...

We visited another new place today, the HIM clinic in Zacapa. It was another day of the “regular patients” with a few new evals sprinkled in for good measure...

Today we returned to the clinic where we hosted Sunday’s patients, but today we worked with the Regulars. This was a mix of children and adults, with diagnos...

Today we set our sights a bit farther and traveled an hour and a half by bus to Asociación Paz y Bien in Chiquimula. This facility was founded by a Jesuit pr...

Today was a distinct change from yesterday! We set up shop at one of HIM’s clinics and welcomed children from a small village located 6 hours away. The focus...

We started the day off right with a great breakfast of bacon, eggs, beans, and lots of fresh fruit. The papaya was especially tasty! And it was a good thing w...

After a midnight flight out of Seattle, a 3+ hour layover in Houston, and a quick 2.5 hour flight to Guatemala City, I am here! It was a long trip, but it wa...

After months of planning, the day is finally here... I begin my travel tonight and arrive in Guatemala tomorrow morning! This is my second trip through GROW ...

Hola! This happened to be our last weekend here in Cusco. After our emotional goodbyes at Camino Nuevo, we had a visit to a local orphanage planned. Unfortun...

Today was our last day at Camino Nuevo. The rec team had one more chance to practice movement activities with both classes and the repetition was helpful. Th...

Today was the culmination of all of our projects and we had the opportunity to present our projects to the parents, teachers, and administration of Camino Nu...

Our weekend was packed full of adventures of so many different kinds. On Friday, we travelled to Aguas Calientes via Ollantaytambo. In Ollantaytambo, some of...

We are starting to find our rhythm here in Cusco and at Camino Nuevo. Today each team continued to fine tune our projects. Each team has been working in the ...

Today was another great day spent at Camino Nuevo! We immediately split into our three focus groups to get started on implementing our projects in the classr...

Today was a long and rewarding day. It started with a bumpy bus ride to Camino Nuevo. The school serves children with cerebral palsy, microcephaly, epileptic...