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OUR HISTORY IN GUATEMALA
1992 Scout Team is sent to Guatemala to research possible projects. 1993 The first section of the Ruth & Naomi Building in Chichicastenango is erected to serve as school and workshop. 1994
1995
1996 Two houses were completed for widows and heir families. Funds were left behind for Guatemalan construction crews to compete 4 more. Our medical team visited 3 sites and treated 625 patients. 1997 We bought land and construced the exterior of a home to serve 45 severely malnourished children annually. The home will involve the parents/guardians of he childrenin an educational program stressing nutrition and sanitation. 1998 Added shelves, beds, ceilings and picket fences to the reovery home for malnourished children. Our effiient medical team treated 926 patients in 4 1/2 days. 1999 Equipped the interior of the recoveryhome for malnourished children, sealed he tile of the leaking roof and played and worked with the children. 2000
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Over an 18 year period, the Guatemala Project has provided teams of volunteers to help the Mayan communities near Chichicastenango, in he Highlands of Guatemala. We have built homes, schools, church buildings, trade schools and clinics. In addition, the teams have provided school supplies, medicines and medical services, English classes, musical instruments and recreational opportunities.
A two story dormitory, kitchen and showroom is added to the Ruth & Naomi Building. The medical clinic in rural Camanchaj gets ceilings, interior doors, bettr lighting and tile floors.
We completed construction work on the medical clinic. In 5 days our medical team, comprised of 12 medicl personnel plus translators, treated 777 patints.
Established a village bank or indigenouspeopl for micro business development; Began construction of a community primary school for disadvantaged children; provided medical services to remote villages.
We completed the Warren Heyer Rural Health Clilnc in Patulup, a ruaral community about 1 hour in the mountains above Chichicasenango. This clilnic provides medical and dental services to a previously unserved population. We also built a community kitchen and dinning room at Chontala, a community about a half a hour in the other direction from Chichi. 
We installed 148 wood efficiency stoves in 74 homes in five different communities outside of Chichicastenango. We provided six hours of training on the use and maintenance of the stoves along with basic sanitatin methods. We also completed the new church kitchen at the Dios Con Nosotros (God With Us) Methodist Church in Chichicastenango.