Wayland Resident Spending Year Volunteering in Guatemala

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She’s raised $3,280 of $5,000. Forty percent of her fundraising goal-a year-long trip to help make things better in Guatemala.

O’Mara Taylor erected a GoFundMe page in order to help fund her volunteer trip to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala at Primeros Pasos, which is a nonprofit health organization that works to improve quality of life in rural communities with integrated health programs and medical services.

Taylor will be working as a development associate, a role that will require writing grants and developing relationships.

“I wanted to share some facts about where I’ll be volunteering and what your donations will be supporting,” she writes. “The leading causes of mortality in Guatemala are pneumonia and diarrheal diseases. Many of the communities Primeros Pasos works with have inadequate access to potable water and lack means of sewage disposal, which predisposes them to many diseases and parasites. The organization runs a Healthy Schools Project, in which field trips are hosted at the clinic and health education outreach is conducted at local schools.”

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