Health & Wellness

The importance of basic healthcare cannot be understated. Poor preventative health and lack of health services impede an individual’s ability to function in a community, affecting school attendance, employment and social activities. Through our Women’s Health and Child Sponsorship programs, we strive to integrate health and wellness into our holistic approach to community development.

Women's Health

Our Program Directors conduct exercise classes twice weekly for women over fourteen who live in Cedro Galán and Chiquilistagua. Each class offers a mixture of strength training, aerobics, and yoga while providing a safe environment for women to relax, socialize, and take care of themselves. In addition, monthly health talks, or “charlas”, are held where local professionals address topics of interest, such as machismo, mental health, first aid, or nutrition.

Both the classes and the charlas feature an incentive system. Regular attendance at exercise classes earns a woman a pair of exercise shoes, and for each subsequent ten classes, a piece of exercise clothing.

Children's Health

Working in conjunction with our Child Sponsorship program, Program Directors coordinate weekly health talks given by the nurse on staff at the clinic, with occasional guest speakers. Attendance of these health talks is a requirement of the mothers whose children are enrolled in our Child Sponsorship program.