Hi to all of the friends of the Mayan Health Initiative. We are happy to report that a very generous donation from Edesia, maker of the famous Plumpynut™; and a grant from Global Support and Development (GSD) NGO allowed for the delivery of ready-to-use-therapeutic food to support our MHI nutrition program.
After several delays due to the world-wide shipping crisis, three containers loaded with 2500 cartons of Plumpy’Doz, Nutributter and Plumpy’Nut, finally arrived to the port on the Atlantic side of Guatemala last Saturday. Fortune was on our side, and the containers were released from customs in a record one day!!!
All three containers traversed the eastern part of the country and arrived at “Los Encuentros”, a road intersection which means “the meeting place” because it connects various provinces of the country with each other. There, teams from the provinces of Retalhuleu, Tecpan, and Quiche met with our team from San Marcos, and unloaded about 1/3 of the product. Two containers continued on to San Marcos, to the western highlands where we work.
This collaborative effort between The Maya Health Initiative, our sister NGO Bitol, Edesia and GSD will make it possible to treat several thousand malnourished children over the next year. We are all very grateful for everyone’s help in making this possible.
In addition, the support of all our donors has allowed us to hire another nurse to assist in identifying and treating malnourished children on the coast of San Marcos, working with our colleagues at the Hospital de la Familia, in Nuevo Progreso. The pandemic, inflation, and the rising food prices are hurting families in and contributed to an increase number of malnourished children. We cannot thank everyone enough for your generosity.