In collaboration with El Centro de Paz Barbara Ford, Global Healthworks Foundation medical volunteers joined local health promoters to provide medical services to nearly 600 indigenous patients from the rural Guatemalan communities of Santa Cruz del Quiché and Chichicastenango. Our treatments included acupuncture and moxibustion, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic massage, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative exercises, and nutritional counseling. Importantly, all these services were offered free of charge to patients. Thanks to all who participated!

In collaboration with El Centro de Paz Barbara Ford, Global Healthworks Foundation medical volunteers joined local health promoters to provide medical services to nearly 700 indigenous patients from the rural Guatemalan communities of Santa Cruz del Quiché and Chichicastenango. Our treatments included acupuncture and moxibustion, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic bodywork, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative exercises, and nutritional counseling. Importantly, all these services were offered free of charge to patients. Thanks to all who participated!

In collaboration with El Centro de Paz Barbara Ford, medical volunteers from the Global Healthworks Foundation teamed up with local health promoters to extend our medical outreach efforts. Together, we safely delivered acupuncture and moxibustion treatments, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic massages, nutritional guidance, and various other healthcare services to several hundred patients in rural Guatemalan communities within the Department of Quiché, Guatemala. Patients were also provided instructions for at-home body-movement exercises. Additionally, we conducted informational talks addressing domestic violence prevention and offered counseling support when needed. A special thanks to all the dedicated individuals who played a vital role in making this possible!

In collaboration with El Centro de Paz Barbara Ford, GHF North American medical volunteers joined local health promoters to safely deliver acupuncture and moxibustion treatments, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic massage, and other healthcare services to several hundred patients in the rural Guatemalan communities of Patzité, Chichicastenango, Chiché, and Santa Cruz del Quiché. Patients also received instructions for at-home body-movement exercises, informational talks about domestic violence prevention, and counseling support, as appropriate. Thanks to all who participated!

In collaboration with El Centro de Paz Barbara Ford, GHF North American medical volunteers joined local health promoters to safely deliver acupuncture and moxibustion treatments, therapeutic massage, and other healthcare services to several hundred patients in the rural Guatemalan communities of Patzité, Santa Cruz del Quiché, and San Antonio Ilotenango. Patients also received instructions for at-home body-movement exercises, informational talks about domestic violence prevention, and counseling support as appropriate. Thanks to all who participated!

To celebrate ten-plus years of service in Guatemala, GHF Founder, Dan Wunderlich, and a small team of North American Alumni volunteers joined local health promoters to safely deliver acupuncture treatments, therapeutic massage, and other healthcare services to the rural indigenous communities of Chinique, Chichicastengo, San Antonio Ilotenango, and Santa Cruz del Quiché. This video provides a glimpse into the ways in which we're shifting healthcare with kindness and compassion with our patients of all ages (including young children, youth, adults and senior citizens), and with all those who cross our path. We hope you enjoy it!

To celebrate ten-years of service in Guatemala and Spring-2022 as a season of renewal, GHF Founder Dan Wunderlich and veteran volunteer Julie Ing Stern joined local health promoters to safely deliver healthcare services to the communities of Xatinap, Chichicastengo, San Antonio Ilotenango, and Santa Cruz del Quiché. In addition to providing education on the prevention of COVID-19, the team provided medical treatments based on acupuncture and Chinese medicine, including moxibustion heat therapy, therapeutic massage, special suction cupping, body-movement exercises, and natural herbal remedies.

In light of the ongoing pandemic, in this summary video, Dan also discusses the importance of all community members continuing to take measures to prevent the spread of the COVID virus.

A short video of our day treating in San Antonio Ilotenango, a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

Expanding on our previous healthworks delivering quarantine kits and coronavirus prevention materials to families in need in rural Guatemala, Global Healthworks Foundation (GHF) piloted a fine-tuned set of mobile clinic services and treated approximately one hundred patients per day in each of four different communities in the Department of Quiché. In addition to receiving “Stop the Spread” Coronavirus Prevention Kits, our patients safely received comprehensive medical treatments which included acupuncture, therapeutic massage, body-movement exercises, natural herbal remedies, nutritional guidance, and psychological counseling support.

Dan Wunderlich, Global Healthworks Foundation Founder, is interviewed by the local Channel 4 television station to discuss the Mobile Clinic Reboot Initiative to safely deliver healthcare services and wellness kits for the prevention of COVID to families in need in Guatemala.

This particular clinic was held in Chichicastengo, Guatemala at the facilities of local health Promoter Sebastiana Pol Suy, who has collaborated with GHF since the organization first began its outreach efforts in 2012.

Global Healthworks Foundation has been working in Guatemala for 5+ years. During that time, we've treated more than 56,000 patients from rural indigenous communities throughout the Department of Quiché. The following video provides a glimpse into the ways in which we're shifting healthcare with kindness and compassion with our patients, health promoters, and all those who cross our path. GHF Founder & Executive Director, Dan Wunderlich, describes our team of dedicated volunteers as “The Best Team Ever!” We hope you enjoy the video!

Global Healthworks Foundation thinks beyond immediate treatment and healthcare delivery by planning for the sustainable accessibility of our community-based medical outreach programs. This short video clip explains how we train local health promoters in our Quiché-based activities to ensure the prolonged impact of our work.

This short video explains how Global Healthworks Foundation thinks beyond immediate treatment and healthcare delivery by planning for the sustainable accessibility of our community-based medical outreach programs. Two-three times a year, GHF volunteers and our Quiché-based team of local health promoters participate in large-scale medical missions, which offer services to some twelve-fifteen hundred patients in a span of just five or six days. Our Mobile Clinic program expands acupuncture accessibility by literally bringing the medicine of acupuncture to these underserved communities. This short video includes several volunteer commentaries and patient testimonials attesting to the impact of their high-quality, cost-free treatments.

As one can imagine, the effects of Covid-19 added further hardship on a population already suffering extreme poverty and violence - and this is especially the case in the Mayan communities in Guatemala. To continue our humanitarian goals, Global Healthworks Foundation (GHF) launched our Covid-19 Response Initiative to deliver Coronavirus Prevention and Wellness Kits to families in need. The kits are designed to minimize the effect of the global pandemic on families, and they contain healthy food staples, face masks, natural plant medicines, and instruction materials to help educate people on steps they can take to prevent and respond to the spread of the coronavirus. This short video highlights our outreach efforts to deliver the wellness kits to families in need following strict physical distancing and sanitation guidelines.

Who can treat 483 patients in THREE days? THIS Super Star Team -- small, but incredibly efficient!! We provided much-needed medical services to the wonderful community of San Andrés Sajcabajá, Quiché -- with acupuncture, therapeutic massage, suction cupping, body-movement classes, Reiki energy, and herbal remedies.

Global Healthworks Foundation has been working in Guatemala for 5+ years. During that time, we've treated more than 56,000 patients from rural indigenous communities throughout the Department of Quiché. This video provides a glimpse into the ways in which we're shifting healthcare with kindness and compassion with our patients, health promoters, and all those who cross our path. We hope you enjoy it!

Nearly 1,650 patients treated by THE BEST TEAM EVER! Please view a brief video describing our healthworks services.

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¡Alrededor de 1,650 pacientes tratados por EL MEJOR EQUIPO! Por favor, ver un breve video que describe nuestros servicios de salud.

Dan Wunderlich, GHF Founder, is interviewed by the local Channel 4 television station to discuss the Jornada de Salud Integral (medical outreach) in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.

Global Healthworks Foundation is an all-volunteer, charitable 501(c)3 organization that provides sustainable integrative healthcare to medically underserved communities domestically and internationally. Typically, our healthcare services include acupuncture, Chinese herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative body movement exercises (e.g., qigong, yoga), and nutritional and lifestyle counseling.

A BIG THANKS to all who participated – Shifting healthcare with kindness and compassion!

A small (but excellent!) team of seven acupuncturists & two massage therapists, were joined by a terrific group of local translators and Health Promoters (therapists) – and in less than five days we treated more than 1,250 patients in the communities of El Quiché and Chichicastenango.Our patients received: blood pressure and diabetes testing, auricular and full-body acupuncture, therapeutic soft-tissue massage or special suction cupping, herbal/ natural plant remedies, nutritional and life-style counseling, and instructions for at-home body-movement rehabilitation exercises ("movimientos de sanacion").

GHF Volunteer Liz Getman is interviewed by the local Channel 4 television station to discuss the Jornada de Salud Integral (medical outreach) in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.

Global Healthworks Foundation is an all-volunteer, charitable 501(c)3 organization that provides sustainable integrative healthcare to medically underserved communities domestically and internationally. Typically, our healthcare services include acupuncture, Chinese herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative body movement exercises (e.g., qigong, yoga), and nutritional and lifestyle counseling.

Dan Wunderlich, GHF Founder, is interviewed by the local Channel 4 television station to discuss the Jornada de Salud Integral (medical outreach) in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.

Global Healthworks Foundation is an all-volunteer, charitable 501(c)3 organization that provides sustainable integrative healthcare to medically underserved communities domestically and internationally. Typically, our healthcare services include acupuncture, Chinese herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative body movement exercises (e.g., qigong, yoga), and nutritional and lifestyle counseling.

The local television Channel 4 television station interviewed Benita Us Ixquin, the mother of Brian, one of our favorite young visitors to Global Healthworks Foundation outreach clinics in Quiché, Guatemala. Brian originally presented a few years ago with limb pain, unable to walk without using a chair as crutches. Local doctors were unable (or unwilling) to help him, and luckily his Mom brought him to a GHF jornada (Medical Health Camp). He has received regular treatments from our mobile clinic team and today he is active in playtime activities, walking just fine!

North American-based volunteers with Global Healthworks Foundation completed our integrative medical outreach initiative in Guatemala – Shifting healthcare with kindness and compassion!

A great team of acupuncturists, massage therapists, yoga instructors, and Reiki practitioners were joined by a terrific group of local Health Promoters (therapists) – and we treated more than 1,250 patients in the communities of El Quiché and Chichicastenango. A BIG THANKS to all who participated!

With deep sadness, Global Healthworks Foundation expresses its sincere condolences for the passing of one of our great leaders, Chris O’Connor – an awesome humanitarian who brought such depth of kindness & compassion to our medical outreach initiatives in Guatemala.

Often with simple words and gestures, you made each of us feel extremely special. We are especially grateful to have been the recipients of your warm and frequent embraces that nourished our emotional well-being. You will always be remembered as a gentle giant with a generous spirit, and for your genuine advocacy for others – including the marginalized and less fortunate.

We have been truly honored and blessed to have your presence and guidance among us.

During the three-year period in which he served as GHF’s Central America Program Manager, Greg Radicone expanded the Foundation’s weekly mobile clinic program to provide healthcare services to new indigenous communities throughout the districts of El Quiché and Chichicastengo, Guatemala.  And more than 15,000 patients received comprehensive treatments with acupuncture, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, nutritional and lifestyle counseling, and rehabilitative body movement exercises!

As Greg transitioned to other opportunities, his fellow team members presented him with this tribute video to acknowledge the great contributions he made to GHF’s outreach efforts in Guatemala.

Dan Wunderlich, GHF Founder, is interviewed by the local Channel 4 television station to discuss the Jornada de Salud Integral (medical outreach) in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.

Global Healthworks Foundation is an all-volunteer, charitable 501(c)3 organization that provides sustainable integrative healthcare to medically underserved communities domestically and internationally. Typically, our healthcare services include acupuncture, Chinese herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, rehabilitative body movement exercises (e.g., qigong, yoga), and nutritional and lifestyle counseling.

In April 2017, volunteers with Global Healthworks Foundation treated many very happy patients during our recent jornada de salud integral (integrative health mission) in Guatemala.  A great team of North American based acupuncturists, massage therapists, yoga instructors, and Reiki practitioners were joined by a terrific group of local Health Promoters to treat the communities of Chichicastenango and El Quiché -- shifting healthcare with kindness & compassion.

We did it! Don Francisco, the handsome gentleman featured in the cover photo here, was our 26,000th patient! We celebrated with a "Zumba" dance party and a song led by three of our local health promoters. We hope you can feel our joy wherever you are!

Gastón was left in the trusted hands of the amazing Global Healthworks Foundation mobile clinic team to cover for Greg during his well-deserved two-week vacation.   The team traveled to multiple villages in Quichè, Guatemala – setting up camp for the day and providing Integrative Healthcare treatments to many, any & all.

This short video clip provides a glimpse of our medical outreach in Quiché, Guatemala where the indigenous populations have limited or no access to modern healthcare services.  Our Integrative Healthcare services include acupuncture, natural herbal remedies, therapeutic soft-tissue bodywork, Reiki energy healing, nutritional and lifestyle counseling, and rehabilitative body movement exercises, such as yoga and Qigong.

During the 18-month period in which he served as GHF’s Central America Program Manager, Peter Caron spearheaded the launch of the Foundation’s weekly mobile clinic program which provides much needed healthcare to indigenous communities throughout the district of Quiché, Guatemala.  During his tenure, the GHF mobile clinic provided comprehensive treatments to nearly 7,000 patients.

As Peter transitioned to other opportunities back in the U.S., his fellow team members presented him with this tribute video to acknowledge the great contributions he made to GHF’s outreach efforts in Guatemala. 

In October 2014, our talented team of dedicated practitioners volunteered tirelessly at the Bárbara Ford Peacebuilding Center in Santa Cruz del Quiché to provide Integrative Healthcare treatments to the wonderful indigenous people of Guatemala.

Accumulating tons of experience from four prior trips here, 15 returning team members were joined by a few more newbies to form an EXTRAORDINARY team of volunteer practitioners.  By week's end, more than 1,500 patients were treated with acupuncture, massage and other integrative healthcare modalities!

In April 2016, a talented team of dedicated GHF volunteer practitioners joined local health promoters in Chichicastenango, Guatemala to provide Integrative Healthcare treatments to the wonderful indigenous people of Guatemala..

One of our veteran volunteers, Gastón, prepared daily video blogs capturing the activities of our GHF team members in action!  Enjoy!