Team Allentown Joina Guatemala Healing Hands 2025

Jay Talsania / Guatemala Healing Hand's November 2025 Service Trip

JEN DAVIS SURGICAL TECHNICIAN, MARY DOUGHERTY, CERTIFIED HAND THERAPIST, ALEC TALSANIA MD ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY RESIDENT, JAY TALSANIA MD HAND SURGEON

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  • Laurie A Cohen

    $25.00 / Yesterday

  • Jay Talsania

    $145.00 / 7 days ago

  • Gregory Herbine

    $50.00 / 12 days ago

    Well done 👏🏻

  • Barbara Schulman

    $1,000.00 / 26 days ago

  • Lew Grant

    $25.00 / 26 days ago

    Thank you for your for those in need. Prayers for good health for everyone. Lew

  • Karl Scherzberg

    $102.90 / 26 days ago

  • Teresa Cook

    $30.87 / 37 days ago

  • Anonymous

    $37.04 / 37 days ago

    Your work changes lives—thank you for changing the world one person at a time.

  • Maria Kucharczuk

    $51.45 / 37 days ago

    May God bless the work of your hands Praying for the team

  • Lori Caffrey

    $102.90 / 37 days ago

    Thank you for the care you provide at home and areas of need.

  • Kristin Doyle-Edmondson

    $51.45 / 38 days ago

  • Faizal Hussein

    $205.80 / 38 days ago

  • Eileen Doherty

    $20.58 / 39 days ago

  • Desiree Sindo

    $10.29 / 39 days ago

    Good Luck! Thank you for all you do!

  • Michael Fagan

    $257.25 / 40 days ago

  • Rosemarie Missmer

    $102.90 / 40 days ago

  • Kamil Atta

    $80.00 / 41 days ago

  • Mark Mattschull

    $20.58 / 41 days ago

  • Kamil Atta

    $102.90 / 41 days ago

  • John Marino

    $20.58 / 41 days ago

    Have a safe and successful trip!

  • Gene Johnston

    $50.00 / 41 days ago

    Blessings and prayers for much healing and safe travels

  • Anonymous

    $514.50 / 42 days ago

    Thank you for the generous gift of your time to care for people less fortunate than we.

  • Erica Rega

    $51.45 / 43 days ago

    You’re doing wonderful things!!!!!

  • Margaret Franko

    $51.45 / 43 days ago

    Thank you all for the important and heartwarming work you are involved with.

  • Donna O'Rourke

    $20.00 / 44 days ago

    thank you Mary and team for all that you do. you inspire me to be a better person. the world is better with you in it!

About Team Allentown Joina Guatemala Healing Hands 2025

We are excited to be going with the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF) on their 21th anniversary service trip to Guatemala in November 2025.  GHHF is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality and availability of healthcare in Guatemala through education, surgery, therapy, and community development. Each trip is led by a team of surgeons, therapists, anesthesiologists, and dedicated volunteers. We treat pediatric patients with congenital hand anomalies, burns and other traumas to the hand and upper extremity. We are respectfully asking for your support. 100% of donations go towards surgeries, therapy, education and community development (none used to cover personal expenses). Donations are in USD and a US tax receipt will be issued. All patients are treated free of expense. Because of the generosity of people like you, the organization has been able to impact hundreds of deserving Guatemalan families. All volunteers commit their time and expertise as well as cover personal travel expenses and the full expense of a child's surgery. Thank you so much for your generosity, support, and kindness. I cannot wait to tell you about my trip!

To learn more about GHHF please visit www.guatemalahands.org.

Below also find a summary of GHHF’s work over the last 19 years: - Evaluated 1,925 patients for hand surgery and therapy - Completed surgery on 739 patients - Fabricated 1,453 orthotics - Educated over 3,500 MDs, therapists, and students - Brought one child to New Mexico to receive extensive hand surgery and three children to Shriners for surgery In 2010, GHHF began to implement community development initiatives to advance the health and wellbeing in the village of Chichoy Alto. GHHF has successfully: - Completed the construction and expansion of Chichoy Alto’s brand-new elementary school and first ever middle school - Constructed 55+ latrines and 21 efficient ONIL stoves - Funded the digging of hillside trenches to lay piping to supply fresh water throughout the village - Distributed crucial fertilizer to replenish Chichoy Alto’s disappearing crops - Distributes emergency maize to families struggling with malnutrition - Purchases school supplies to the 100+ elementary aged children - Sponsored 16+ children to attend high school and 15+ teenagers to attend post high school program - Distributed 32 Ecofilters in the village of Chuchuk’a Alto - Established a chicken program to provide sustainable protein to students - Funds an emergency food program that began as a result of COVID-19 - Currently working on funding the construction of multiple safe concrete family homes and have completed 5 of 30

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