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RICARDO’s FAMILY We met Ricardo’s family in 2002 when his wife started coming to the clinic with their youngest child, a small baby girl....

I want to thank all of Hands of Hope supporters that have been so faithful to help the people of the villages we have worked in since ...

The following week after prenatal clinic in the furtherest village of Yalu, we had an outreach to the elderly people in two other...

Most of us wouldn’t think of insulin as a Christmas gift, but to Miguel it was the best gift of all. The Monday after Christmas, Maria...

We had our first Christmas miracle on the Saturday before Christmas. I got a late-night call Wednesday, and learned that a mother who was...

At 11 am in the hospital, Paco said he was fine, had no pain, except for a sharp pain in his stomach. He said he was feeling peaceful....

Paco is the husband of Rosario, who has worked with us in the clinic for ten years. We rely on Paco so much, and he is in the hospital in...

We received access to 1,000,000 bananas (and one container was stolen)  thanks to the Chiquita Banana Company; the program is managed...

This family might qualify as perhaps the poorest family we’ve met.  The father was a “helper” on a bus, but fell off and was run over. He...

It’s a blessing to be able to provide general health care to thousands of indigenous families in “our” villages. But so many times, the...

Paco – along with his wife Rosario and their two teens Alejandra and Paco, Jr. – work all day each Saturday to hold a day of activities...

A group from Kentucky Adoption Services came to visit for a day and were a great blessing to the people of the village. This group ...

The reality of the life of a child in the villages is that there simply is no money for the ‘basic’ needs of life. Many don’t have ...

. . . Good Christmas Gift –  more than 1,100 children in our one village must sleep on a cold, damp dirt floor? The same in the other two...

Stan, our very mission-minded friend from Colorado, came to visit, help and work for two weeks at end of April, first week of May. The...

Carrying firewood in rural Guatemala It seems like we notice something new and interesting each time we drive up into the mountains to...

The houses that needed floors were up the side of a mountain and for one, we had to walk along an open sewer. And for each, we had to...

It wouldn’t seem like such a big deal for most of us – but she thanked us with tears in her eyes. Don't go by her smile - Enecia was very...

The construction of the new school kitchen in our village is coming along. We received a generous donation from the Mike B family which...

We sent out the word in our village that our clinic would be doing lice shampoo treatments. Dozens of children raced to get in line, and...