HISTORY of the HOSPITALITO
The idea to form a group of Friends of the Hospitalito came from the K’aslimaal’s Board of directors and with the support of K’aslimaal’s President and the Development Coordinator from
TODAY’S SITUATION.
Nowadays a Project called “A block for you Health” is functioning. This is a Project that promotes the community’s participation as an active part of the construction of the new Hospitalito Atitlán.
We have planned to work with different sectors of the population such as: education, organized groups, evangelic churches, catholic churches, among others. We already started working with teachers and children from different educational schools from Santiago Atitlán, public and private, from all levels of education. The Friends’ Club has been organized in small groups to visit the schools in the urban and rural area and as a result 15 schools already gave their contribution of cinder blocks for the Hospitalito.
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
The Plan includes working with other sectors of the population and also there are strategies and activities planed. Some of them are making little radio adds in the local language Tz’utujiil and also making a video for the local cable company about the Hospitalito Atitlan’s Friends’ Club, who where the first ones donating cinder blocks for the construction of the Hospitalito.
Thelma Andrea Cortez Rodriguez
Coordinadora de Desarrollo Comunitario
Pueblo a Pueblo
