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Empowering Guatemalan communities to live healthier lives We are a 501c3 non-profit organization.

We are a group of health workers, engineers, teachers, administrators, college students and kids, working to help improve the health of a group of villages in the Departamento Izabal in Guatemala. We started in 2008 and continue to return with teams of volunteers twice a year. At each visit we update community assessments, conduct health care screenings, provide clinical care and health education and work at ongoing village improvement projects.

09/16/2025

🇬🇹 Happy Guatemalan Independence Day!

Today, we send warm wishes and solidarity to our beloved Guatemalan community — both here in the U.S. and across Guatemala — as we celebrate the strength, beauty, and vibrant cultures of the Guatemalan people, who give this day its meaning. 💙🇬🇹💙

This past Friday, we gathered in Seattle for a small but meaningful celebration. Together, we shared delicious food, danced to music by DJ Johnny, and honored Guatemala’s rich heritage with:

🎶 A flag ceremony and the Guatemalan national anthem
👗 A fashion show of traditional dress from different departamentos
💃🏽 A baile folklórico lesson by Emcee Luis Amado of Amigos de Seattle Radio
🎉 Community, laughter, and love

Dinner included pollo guisado with cilantro rice, sopa de frijoles, tostadas de salsa roja, ensalada mixta, and frescos of tamarindo and rosa de Jamaica — with a dessert table full of treats like Gabi’s famous tres leches cake!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this celebration possible — and to all who carry Guatemala in their hearts today and every day.

09/12/2025

Guatemalan Independence Day is Today!
It’s not too late to join us today from 6:00pm-10:00pm for a fantastic night of Guatemalan food, dancing, drinks, and more to honor Guatemalan Independence Day. Please join us for this annual family friendly event. Tickets are available for purchase online or at the door. We hope to see you there!
Come enjoy Diana’s cooking & take a moment to relax!

08/08/2025

🎉 Celebrate Guatemalan Independence Day with Us! 🇬🇹

Friday, September 12th • 6–10 PM

Join us for an unforgettable evening of delicious food, refreshing drinks, music, and dancing as we celebrate Guatemala’s rich history, vibrant cultures, and resilient communities. 💃🏽🕺🏽✨

🎶 Music by DJ Johnny
🎨 Cultural traditions & vibrant community
💜 All are welcome!

📲 Get your ticket & event info:
– Visit the link in our bio
– Go to https://bit.ly/GVHFiesta2025
– Or scan the QR code on the flyer

(Proceeds support Guatemala Village Health’s community programs)

07/12/2025

Honoring 15 Years of Impact in Rural Guatemala 💛

July 8, 2025, marked the 15th anniversary of Guatemala Village Health!

Thanks to your support, we’ve expanded access to health, nutrition, and education across dozens of rural and indigenous communities. 🌿

Together with local health workers, we’ve:
✔️ Supported moms and babies with prenatal care & supplements
✔️ Built smokeless stoves, water filters & composting toilets
✔️ Planted permaculture gardens and taught nutrition
✔️ Provided essential chronic & clinical care
✔️ Trained and empowered local healthcare providers
✔️ Finished construction on our Development & Training Center in Chinachabilchoch!

Help us celebrate 15 years of service — and grow our next chapter — by donating today 💫
https://bit.ly/DonateToGVH

06/20/2025

💙 Thank you, Costa’s crew!

We’re still feeling the love from Tuesday night’s dinner benefit at Costa’s Greek Restaurant — and we want to thank everyone who showed up, shared a meal, and supported GVH. With about 45 folks in the room, it felt like a true friend-raiser — filled with great food, warm conversations, and deep community care.

Special thanks to Costa’s, a U-District institution since 1975, for donating 20% of the evening’s proceeds to support our work in rural Guatemala. And shoutout to our board VP Carolyn Bain, who used to work at Costa’s back in the ’90s and helped bring this event to life!

Your presence meant everything. ¡Gracias!

06/16/2025

🌟 We’re still celebrating — and still fundraising!

In the whirlwind of the past month, we didn’t get a chance to say this loud enough:
💥 THANK YOU to everyone who made our Health, Hope, and Progress Gala such a success!

Together, we raised $105,000 to fund community-led healthcare, nutrition, and public health work across rural Guatemala. Your generosity fuels everything we do.

Let’s keep it going. Join us tomorrow night for an easy (and delicious) way to support GVH:

🍽️ Dinner at Costa’s Greek Restaurant
📍 4559 University Way NE, Seattle
🗓️ Tuesday, June 17
⏰ 6:30–8:30 PM
💻 RSVP here: https://bit.ly/GVHCostaDinner
20% of all proceeds go directly to GVH programs!

No ticket needed—just show up hungry and mention GVH when you order!

Fun fact: Costa’s has been a U-District staple since 1975, and our own board VP Carolyn Bain was a server there in the 90s. We’d love to see you there! 💙🥙

05/14/2025

Join us this Saturday for the 2025 GVH Gala!

We’re just days away from Health, Hope, and Progress, our annual fundraising gala in support of sustainable, community-led health care in rural Guatemala!

Come for the cause — stay for:
✨ A wood-fired pizza dinner for 10 in a stunning backyard
✨ A summer dinner party for 30 (with Guatemalan food + pool access!)
✨ A weeklong stay in a hilltop ocean-view home in Costa Rica
✨ Mojito Seattle’s legendary catering
✨ Live Guatemalan marimba
✨ Hosted bar + auction led by Larry J. Snyder

Every ticket, every bid, and every donation helps fund year-round care provided by our Guatemalan health and projects teams in over 15 rural villages.

🗓️ Saturday, May 17, 5:30 PM
📍 Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Seattle
🎟️ Get your tickets now: bit.ly/GVH2025Gala
💛 Can’t attend? Donate: bit.ly/GVHDonate2025

05/05/2025

🎤 Meet Larry J. Snyder — Auctioneer, Coffee Guy, and Friend of Guatemala

We’re honored to welcome Larry J. Snyder back as the auctioneer for this year’s GVH Gala!

Larry’s connection to Guatemala runs deep. Years ago, he spent time in Pastores, where he helped build homes alongside local families — but came home with something more than calloused hands. He writes:

“When you go into service with the intent of doing something good for someone else, more often than not, you come away changed.”

Larry is also a longtime advocate for ethical sourcing and Latin American coffee growers. He’s worked with Starbucks and others to uplift producers across the region — blending community connection with big-picture impact.

He’s a TEDx speaker, MOTH storyteller, and three-time author who understands the power of stories to bring people together. Last year, Larry brought heart and energy to the GVH stage, helping us raise vital funds for rural health care — and we’re thrilled to welcome him back.

🗓️ May 17, 2025 | Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
🎟️ bit.ly/GVH2025Gala
💛 bit.ly/GVHDonate2025

🔗 Read his reflections from Pastores:
larryjsnyder.com/the-give-and-take-in-pastores-guatemala

04/28/2025

🌟 Meet Liset Olivet – Director of Aldeas Sanas Guatemala

We’re thrilled to welcome Liset Olivet, Executive Director of Aldeas Sanas Guatemala, to Seattle for this year’s Health, Hope, and Progress Gala!

Liset joined GVH’s local partner organization in June 2024, bringing a powerful blend of experience in public health, international development, and nonprofit management. She holds degrees in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, and International Commerce — and is deeply committed to building sustainable health solutions in rural Guatemala.

Working closely with GVH’s Director of Programs, Liset helps lead technical, operational, and community-based initiatives across the villages we serve.

We can't wait for you to meet her in person and hear her reflections from the field!

🎟️ Early bird pricing ends May 1 — get your gala tickets now:
bit.ly/GVH2025Gala

💛 Can’t attend? Support GVH with a donation:
bit.ly/GVHDonate2025

04/18/2025

🌿 Did you follow along with our Spring Jornada?
If those stories moved you — the rural clinics, the health promoter trainings, the comadronas in action — here’s your chance to support that work.

Join us for Health, Hope, and Progress, Guatemala Village Health’s annual fundraising gala!

🗓️ Saturday, May 17, 2025
🕠 5:30pm
📍 Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199

Enjoy:
✨ Dinner by Mojito Latin American Restaurant
🎶 Live Guatemalan marimba performance
🍷 Hosted bar
🎉 Live auction

🎟️ Early-bird tickets available through May 1:
https://bit.ly/GVH2025Gala

Proceeds support GVH’s work with Indigenous communities in rural Guatemala:
• Nutrition and permaculture family gardens
• Ongoing healthcare in 10 villages
• Training for health promoters and midwives
• Clean water, composting toilets, and smokeless stoves

💛 Can’t attend? You can still make a difference:
https://bit.ly/GVHDonate2025

🌐 Learn more: www.gvhealth.org
📧 Contact: office@gvhealth.org

04/15/2025

Thursday, April 3 – Capacitación de Promotores y Comadronas

The final day of the Spring 2025 jornada brought together community health workers from 15 villages across the region for a day of training and skill-building at the GVH health post in Chinachabilchoch.

In this part of Guatemala, rural healthcare depends on the leadership of local promotores de salud (health promoters) and comadronas (traditional midwives) — trusted community members who provide essential care year-round, in their own languages, and often in hard-to-reach places.

Most villages in this region have two promotores — one man and one woman — many of whom are bilingual in Q’eqchi’ and Spanish. They are often joined by 2-3 comadronas who support prenatal care, birth, and postpartum health.

For this capacitación, the group divided into two:
— The promotores met in the school to practice vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, oxygen saturation, blood glucose) and review their roles and responsibilities within their villages. They also received equipment to take home — so they can provide care in their communities, not just at the clinic.

— The comadronas met in the aldea’s old church with GVH staff to review prenatal care, identifying high-risk pregnancies, and supporting safe deliveries.

Together, about 70 people gathered — from Chinachabilchoch, Chabilchoch, Semanzana, Seacacar Arriba, Seacacar Abajo, Nimlabenque, Chinabenque, Esperanza Túnico, San Marcos, Ceibita, Marcajam, Saquiquib, Zapotal, Tikalito, and Nuevo Nacimiento Sexan.

GVH staff prepared lunch for everyone — a small act of care for those who care for so many.

It was a fitting way to close the jornada — honoring the knowledge, dedication, and leadership already present in these communities.

04/13/2025

🧑‍🏫✨ Wednesday, April 2 – Capacitación del Equipo

After a week of clinic days in the aldeas, Wednesday was set aside for capacitación del equipo (team training) at Hotel Viñas del Lago, near Río Dulce. This was a dedicated time and space for reflection, learning, and connection among the teams that carry this work forward all year.

This wasn’t just about the jornada — the medical team and projects team of Aldeas Sanas Guatemala are working every day in Santiago and in the aldeas, providing care, health education, and community support long after the U.S. volunteers head home.

The morning focused on open conversation — sharing what’s working well, what could be improved, and how to keep building stronger communication and collaboration across all parts of the organization.

There was also practical training on using the electronic medical record (EMR), especially for managing chronic diseases. A new update this year: The EMR will now also include information about the families participating in community health projects — like permaculture, smokeless stoves, and composting toilets — allowing for better tracking and follow-up all in one place.

In the afternoon, teams divided into smaller groups for focused training. The projects team worked on strategies for health education, community engagement, and improving the delivery of their development projects. The medical team worked on clinical skills — including how to respond to emergencies during pregnancy, how to identify high-risk pregnancies, and how to communicate effectively and respectfully with patients and community members.

It was a day of listening, learning, and recommitting to the shared work of community health — both in the clinics and beyond.

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600 First Avenue, Suite 112
Seattle, WA
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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 1pm

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+12062377577

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https://www.gvhealth.org/

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