Common Hope Blog

The following guest post about the response after Tropical Storm Agatha was written by Laura Hernon of Link for Health, a blog that strives to improve the health potential of Guatemalans by connecting people with medical efforts throughout the country. Over the past few days, people on both sides of the border have pondered two [...]

Earlier this month the Jacoby family traveled to Guatemala, where Dr. Brad Jacoby and his wife Anne Jacoby, an ophthalmology technician, conducted eye exams in San Rafael. The pair completed 327 exams, most with students at the school, finding 17 children that needed glasses and/or surgery. Rocio Gonzalez, San Rafael satellite coordinator, said they also [...]

This Tuesday was the last testing day of the ophthalmologists from Landivar University that have been working with us. They went out to the school in Guardiania el Hato, and tested kids there.  More pictures on our Flickr feed, linked on the right-hand column.