At 84, Dr. Paul Quintana has completed 176 medical mission trips around the world, specializing in cleft lip, palate repair and burn reconstruction. He and his wife have also been GPA donors since 2002.

GPA is honored to be selected as one of twelve 2026 Featured Grantees by Together Women Rise!

María García Hernández, GPA's Program Coordinator - Women Caring for Women program. María, what’s your role at GPA? I do a little bit of everything at GPA, but my main program is Women Caring for Women and our Men’s Program, which works with adults and young people. We include young people because in Indigenous communities, people get married young and often leave school. It’s important to work with them on maternal health, gender issues, violence, and rights, because someday

For women like Doña Leonida in Quintana Roo, midwifery is not just a calling—it is an act of love and resistance.

Listen to Doña Maria's inspiring story about her life as a midwife in this 3-minute video. More than 80 years ago, Doña María was born into the hands of her grandmother, Mercedes, a Mayan midwife from the Tzeltal region of southern Mexico. And just like her grandmother, mother, great-aunt and great-grandmother, Doña María became a midwife. Her mother used to say: “How could you not be a midwife, when you carry the lineage of all the midwives and healers in the family?”   She

Dr. Saúl Madrid and Eduardo Cabrera seated to the right talk to representatives of the Nich Ixim Midwife Movement of Chiapas at GPA's office in Chiapas, Mexico With 642 health units and nearly 2 million people enrolled—almost 40% of the state’s population—IMSS-Bienestar in Chiapas serves more people than any other public state health program in Mexico. Most of these individuals live in rural areas and face significant poverty and marginalization. Over the past two years, GPA

Global Pediatric Alliance is pleased to announce our newest partner in our Community Designed Health Grants program—Primeros Pasos, a community-based health organization located in Llanos de Pinal, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Founded 22 years ago by a medical student from Nashville, TN, Primeros Pasos (Spanish for 'First Steps') began as a mobile clinic focused on reaching school-age children. Over time, the organization has expanded and is now operating a health clinic that p

"GPA focuses on facilitating positive outcomes for kids and families in a way that’s not top-down but organic. That’s what makes their...

Paulina, a midwife in Yucatán, Mexico, has recently participated in GPA's midwifery initiatives. Enriching the skills of midwives has...

"Supporting women's reproductive health in rural and Indigenous communities is critically important." We recently had the good fortune to...

“Our dream is for women to be empowered and make their own decisions” Berta Cúmez, pictured above on the left, is the extraordinary...

"We're all where we are because somebody helped us. We all stand on the shoulders of giants." Ralph Sklar is a financial advisor based in...

"This is what we accomplished as women." The Mayan women who form the collective Sbelal Kuxlejalil, are building ecological stoves. In...

What I learned at GPA is that you can make changes. They don't have to be great big ones. Just simple things can be incredibly impactful.

Traditional Mayan midwives are transforming maternal healthcare delivery, placing the needs and experiences of Indigenous women at the fore.

2 million people have better access to equitable care due to our programs We’re delighted to share our 2023 Annual Report, the first...

Global Pediatric Alliance (GPA) has long contemplated how powerful and important it would be to unite the efforts and voices of...

Traditional midwifery has a very special and ancestral role in women's health in both Mexico and Guatemala. According to Mexico's...

Women in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca will help construct their stoves. We're excited to announce that we have awarded a...

Traditional midwife Lucía Girón Pérez, of Tenejapa, Chiapas, after attending a home birth. Photo Courtesy of Janet Jarman, a Mexico...