Team Gretchen & Spencer 2025

Gretchen Bachman / Guatemala Healing Hand's November 2025 Service Trip

DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND AVAILABILITY OF HEALTHCARE IN GUATEMALA THROUGH EDUCATION, SURGERY, THERAPY, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  • $788

    Raised

  • $6,000

    Goal

  • 7

    Supporters

  • 78

    Days Remaining

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About Team Gretchen & Spencer 2025

I have been fortunate to have been a part of the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation since 2005, and I am privileged to travel again with the group this November. This will be Spencer's third mission! He doesn't remember the first one because he was so little, and his last mission was in 2019. When we were all quarantining during the pandemic, I asked Spencer, "What is one thing you would like to do after we are on the other side of this?" His response - he wanted to return to Guatemala. And here he gets to volunteer again during his senior year of high school! Spencer has a goal to raise at least $6000 to commemorate his 18th birthday!


ALL PROCEEDS  go directly to the organization to support these efforts.  No part of the money raised will go toward personal costs of the trip. Our trip is completely self-funded. No contribution is too small, and we appreciate your consideration!

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We are raising money this year to honor and celebrate GHHF for its sustainable service,  and to help meet the organization's mission of improving the quality and availability of healthcare in Guatemala through education, hand therapy, hand surgery, and community development. 

Over the years, we have:
  • Evaluated 1,925 patients for hand surgery and therapy
  • Completed surgery on 739 patients under 18
  • 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 select community development initiatives to advance the health and well-being of the village of Chichoy Alto.  GHHF has successfully:
  • 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 needed to replenish Chichoy Alto’s disappearing crops
  • Distributes emergency maize to families struggling with malnutrition
  • Purchased school supplies for the 100+ elementary-aged children (and continues to do so)
  • Sponsored 16+ children to attend high school and 15+ teenagers to attend post-high school programs
  • Distributed 32 Ecofilters in the village of Chuchuk’a Alto
  • Completed the construction and expansion of Chichoy Alto’s brand-new elementary school and first-ever middle school
  • Established a chicken program to provide sustainable protein to community students
  • We continue to fund an emergency food program that began as a result of COVID-19 in March 2020
  • We are currently working on funding the construction of multiple safe concrete family homes and have completed 5 of 30. 

I hope you can share your love and generosity to support the 22025 GHHF mission. 

ALL PROCEEDS  go directly to the organization to support these efforts.  

We appreciate your consideration!