Our Stories

To the Coast Year after year, Guatemalan farmers pack up their families and livestock onto trucks and move to the coast to help with the coffee, cotton and sugar cane harvests. For some, lending a hand on these coastal farms is their only chance to make it through the winter. [...]

Trekking for Trouble San Sebastián Coatán is a rural area nestled in the Guatemalan highlands and a full day’s travel from the “neighboring” city of Queztaltenango. To get there, every week Doctor Mario takes a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride from Quezaltenango, and then treks another six hours before arriving on a [...]

This quarter marks another period of great success for Impact Global Health Alliance Global. Every day we help save the lives of women and children in 7 different countries. We are particularly excited about several significant milestones in our Casa Materna project in Guatemala, generously supported by Ronald McDonald House [...]

In June of 1996, our doctor in San Sebastian Coatán, Guatemala was in the middle of a pickup soccer game, when he was interrupted by a panicked woman urging him to come help her daughter. Upon arriving, the doctor found that the woman's daughter was giving birth to a premature baby, which stopped [...]

In early June, Impact Global Health Alliance had the privilege and honor to work with two incredible, Fayetteville Academy volunteer students, Jasmine and Sabeeka. These students travelled to Guatemala to volunteer in our Casa Materna clinics and worked with a group of volunteers to assist the community in saving the [...]

Finding the Best in Community Health We are very honored to announce that Impact Global Health Alliance’ Project Directors, Dr. Mario Valdez of Impact Global Health Alliance Guatemala and Dr. Ramiro Llanque of the Andean Rural Health Care, were two of the seven participants invited to attend the Pan-American Health [...]

Meet Breanne Lesnar Breanne Lesnar is currently pursuing her Masters degree in Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is spending the first part of her summer volunteering in Guatemala at our Casa Maternas. After her internship with Impact Global Health Alliance Global, Breanne will head to [...]

We love our Interns! At Impact Global Health Alliance Global we value our interns who volunteer their time, energy, and education to help us achieve our goal of hope through health. We are excited to welcome three new interns who will be working with us throughout the summer. These young women [...]

Youth in Action Two students from Ravenscroft high school  worked with Executive Director Andrew Herrera for 35 hours in the office. They provided support and learned about the work of Impact Global Health Alliance Global. Below are two short notes from their experience. Thank you Alex and Reed!   Global [...]

Happy Mother’s Day from Impact Global Health Alliance Global! Since the vision of our organization is healthy mothers and children around the world, we consider this to be a very important day. Important for both the recognition of mothers and all that they do, as well as to raise awareness [...]

With nothing to hold but the pockets of my own pants, I step onto the rooftop and gaze into what I can see of the mountains. They fold into the distance enshrouded, swallowed by a fog that replaces the dust every morning and night. How stark is the contrasting night [...]

Happy World Health Day! This year’s focus is depression. You might be wondering how the maternal and child health work of Impact Global Health Alliance Global relates to depression, but maternal health and depression are actually closely tied. Depression impacts people of all ages, however women after childbirth are one [...]