New team Home from Guatemala — Mission Accomplished, But Never Complete

Our team has returned from what stands as the most successful Guatemala mission to date. Over the course of this deployment, Emergency Project reached new heights — both in volume and impact — reaffirming our commitment to delivering emergency care where it’s needed most.

Operating from our rural Mayan clinic, we cared for more patients per day than many large U.S. emergency departments — delivering urgent medical care, point-of-care blood testing, and EKG diagnostics to communities that have long been underserved. With expanded services, improved systems, and new clinical capabilities, this mission represents the continued evolution of a project that didn’t exist just one year ago.

Outside the clinic walls, our teams made house calls to those too sick or elderly to travel, brought resuscitative care to critically ill patients with no other access to emergency services, and partnered with our friends at DIG to install clean ventilated stoves in the homes of families in need — improving both respiratory health and daily living conditions.

What made this mission even more remarkable was the shared spirit that powered it. Multiple family teams — parents and children, siblings, spouses — worked side by side across triage, pharmacy, logistics, and patient care. Their unity embodied what this work is all about: people showing up for one another, across borders and backgrounds, to bring healing where it’s needed most.

This mission wasn’t just a step forward — it was a leap. And we’re just getting started.