About us

Our co-founders initially started Heal A Village foundation with the purpose of taking medical professionals to Guatemala to perform medical interventions. However, what they discovered after their first visit to Guatemala was a need far greater than just medical poverty. The villages and the people of Guatemala needed "healing". This is where our motto was born, "heal every aspect of life".  Understanding that every aspect of live directly affects the other. We would not be successful long term if we did not take the time to observe and collect data to develop a program to specifically target disfunction and or lack of resources 

Our foundation works with willing and eager members of villages primarily located on the coast of Guatemala. Our goal is to cultivate programs and tools to work along side willing participants raise their standard of living. Focusing our efforts and annual projects on a simple motto, "heal every aspect of life". Each trip has its own unique goal of healing.  Some trips are simply building homes along side families in need of adequate shelter. Others are complicated, involving education and medical treatments. Our foundation is working on building a medical facility that will serve as the only clinic to treat four villages, helping thousands. In 2019, we took local youth to build homes and also started working on clean and sustainable toilets for the local school houses. 2020 brings projects that include: gardening and nutritional classes, medical clinic, bringing proper learning materials to the schools, certification and education for locals on basic life saving interventions, and a clean water project. Many GREAT things coming for our future volunteers and recipients in Guatemala.

El' Rosario/ El' Dormido

This village is located on the coast of Guatemala approximately 3.5 hours from the city. El Dormido has a very tragic past. Approximately 13 years ago in 2005 hurricane STAN, hit the little village and devastated the land and the people. The hurricane carved out a large channel connecting river and ocean, and submerging 90% of the village. This destroyed their clean water wells, and permanent buildings and homes. Many were lost and washed out into the ocean among the lost were approximately 6 children. The rainfall also caused other villages to flood and loose structures through out the coastline and villages closer to the city.In Guatemala, Hurricane Stan caused more than 650 deaths, destroyed 35,000 homes and affected nearly 500,000 people. Damages totaled close to US$100 million. This may seem like along time ago but to countries like Guatemala they are still suffering from the effects of this storm and others since then.
Many families moved away, but for those that stayed they tried to rebuild temporary homes and public buildings. These families on average make about 2 dollars US a day. In order to feed their families, and try to save enough to move or build sustainable homes it becomes almost impossible. On average the adults in the villages might have a 5th grade education level. Many children from this village have to walk about 1 hour each way to go to school, there is a small school that is closer, about 15 min walking distance but is not staffed regularly and only houses a few desks. There is not much there for them and most of the parents can not afford to send all of the children by bus to school, it is roughly .50 cents US for 1 child , 1 way to go to school.
This village's shores is slowly eroding and many structures have nearly been claimed by the ocean once again. After visiting this village we knew that this was a group that we had to help. No clean water, and temporary shelters mixed with unsanitary living conditions all around them we at first were unsure where to start. But as we move forward we find that anything big or small that we do is a great improvement and that the people of this region and our selves are forever changed.