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En buenas manos: La travesía de una partera en la Yucatán rural
Paulina, a midwife in Yucatán, Mexico, has recently participated in GPA's midwifery initiatives. Enriquecer las habilidades de las...
17 mar


Anunciamos a nuestro nuevo socio de salud comunitaria: Primeros Pasos
Global Pediatric Alliance se complace en anunciar a nuestro nuevo socio en nuestro programa de subvenciones de salud diseñadas por la...
17 mar


Spotlight on Sebastiana Pale, Coordinator of the Midwife Movement of Chiapas and GPA's Newest Member
Sebastiana Pale Pérez, originally from the rural community of Chimpil, in the municipality of Huixtán, Chiapas, speaks two Mayan...
13 may 2022


GPA Expands to the Yucatán!
This fall, GPA launched its Midwife Enrichment Course in Mérida, Yucatán with two groups of Maya midwives. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
30 dic 2021


GPA’s Racial Justice Work Recognized by New England International Donors
GPA has been selected as a recipient for the 2021 Global Racial Justice Giving Grant by New England International Donors (NEID), a...
8 sept 2021


GPA Launches Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign in Collaboration with the Committee for Safe Motherhood
The #COVID19 pandemic is far from over, with cases on the rise in both Mexico and Guatemala. Less than 22% of the population in Mexico is...
10 ago 2021


GPA Awards Community Grant to Mayan Women's Organization in Guaquitepec, Mexico
GPA is happy to announce we are awarding a Community Grant to the impressive organization Mujeres Tseltales para la Autogestión...
10 ago 2021


Spotlight on Sebastiana Pale, Coordinator of the Midwife Movement of Chiapas and GPA's Newest Member
Sebastiana Pale Pérez, originally from the rural community of Chimpil, in the municipality of Huixtán, Chiapas, speaks two Mayan...
10 ago 2021


Guatemala Housing Alliance to Feed 300 Families
GPA has provided an emergency grant to Guatemala Housing Alliance (GHA), which is based in San Juan la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala, near...
20 may 2020

Colectiva Cereza to Help Imprisoned Indigenous Women and Their Children with Basic Supplies
Colectiva Cereza, an organization comprised of 8 women who defend the rights of indigenous and migrant Mexican and Central American women...
20 may 2020


GPA Launches Social Media Campaign
On May 5, International Day of the Midwife, and in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, GPA launched the social media campaign to the...
20 may 2020


Delivering More Midwife Kits Through Partnerships
53 additional midwife kits with personal protective equipment delivered!
20 may 2020


Buy A Beautiful T-shirt and Help Threatened Communities in 2 Quick Steps
100% of proceeds go to GPA's Covid-19 Emergency Action Fund
21 abr 2020


Midwives Take a Stand During Covid-19
More than 500 traditional midwives representing 30 municipalities make up the Nich Ixim Midwife Movement of Chiapas, which was formed in...
18 abr 2020


Guatemalan Villages Face Food Insecurity
We have been in contact with our partner organizations in Guatemala to monitor the situation on the ground. Berta Cúmiz, the Executive...
18 abr 2020


Making Masks and Midwife Kits
With a shortage of availability of face masks both in the US and Mexico, GPA board president Kate Kentfield-Kessner in California, and...
18 abr 2020


The Reality of Covid-19 in Rural Mexico
At times, it seems to me that what we are telling people about Covid-19 is aimed first and foremost at the middle class living in urban...
11 abr 2020


"I Gained So Much Knowledge that I Can Now Share with my Community"
At 26, Andrés Guacash Vazques is both a community health promoter working in the indigenous community of Zitin, Chiapas (Mexico), and a...
11 sept 2019


"I want girls to see that they learn skills and get ahead...."
Meet María García Hernández, one of our outstanding young leaders from the community of Iwiltic, Chiapas who became a GPA intern in 2018....
9 may 2019

GPA-Trained Midwives in TV Video
TV Azteca, a Mexican media company, produced the video "The Work of Midwives," which features several midwives that GPA has trained. It...
18 dic 2018
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