My Nonprofit Reviews

Briefly, I am a Family Doctor who also has a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. I have gone on at least two dozen volunteer medical missions in my 20 years of practice and have seen the proverbial "give a man a fish and he eats only for a day", "spit in the ocean", "band aide care" given by most short term volunteer organizations, until I experienced a trip with Xela Aid in Guatemala. The greatest difference was Xela Aid has consistency in listening to the community they serve, then help THEM make their own changes. Xela Aid provides a consistent base of support in knowledge, trust, financial and friendships that have endured over twenty years and through a civil war. There is now a highly successful school scholarship program and a local clinic manned by a local doctor year round with a laboratory and pharmacy. It has branched into micro loans and youth entrepreneur mentoring programs creating new businesses by the next generation of "movers and shakers" in the political world of Guatemala.

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