Thanks to Primeros Pasos & Your Support, Hundreds of Guatemalan Families Now Have Access to Medical Services
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For over 20 years, Primeros Pasos has been the difference between "no doctor for miles" and real healthcare for families in Guatemala's Palajunoj Valley, where 85% of residents live in poverty or extreme poverty. As a grantee of GPA's Community-Designed Health Projects Fund — which supports local organizations working to improve maternal and child health in the most remote and Indigenous areas of Mexico and Guatemala — Primeros Pasos brings free medical, dental, and nutrition care directly to people who would otherwise go without.
This year, through your support, our partnership funded Mobile Clinic services in Bella Vista and Las Majadas, where over 100 people received medical consultations, dental care, and medications at no cost. For many families, isolated by both poverty and geography, it was the first time they'd ever seen a healthcare provider.
Most of those served are women and children — and at the heart of that work is Primeros Pasos' Women's Health Initiative, which offers free Pap smear screenings for early detection of cervical cancer, along with follow-up care and treatment when needed. So far, 67 women have been screened, putting the program on track to reach its year-end goal of 100.
Last month alone, Primeros Pasos ran two outreach events made possible by your support: a Women's Health Day in Chuicavioc on July 22nd offering free cervical cancer screenings, and a Mobile Clinic visit on July 23rd to Tierra Colorada Alta — one of the valley's most remote communities — that brought medical care, dental services, and medications to over 100 people.
We've partnered with Primeros Pasos for two years now, and their impact keeps growing. This is the kind of grassroots investment that drives GPA's mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality forward — and we're grateful to stand alongside a partner so committed to reaching those who need care most.
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