Background

I have started this blog in an attempt to understand the current and recent history of health care among the Mayans in Guatemala. I encourage posts so that we can learn together how to help these wonderful people achieve their potential. These indigenous groups have suffered from a condition known as "medical pluralism": that is, Western medicine has been competing with the traditional healing medicines and herbs instead of trying to understand and adapt to the Maya culture. It is my hope that we can understand more clearly what has happened/is happening so we can resolve conflicts and empower the Maya communities to be able to take care of the problems and issues they face.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Why K'iche?

Someone commented about why I am focusing on the Mayan population in Guatemala that speaks the K'iche dialect. This is a great question. There are two reasons for this: One, the research that I have found focuses on this under-served group, and so ease of access is one reason. The other, and more important reason, is that I am preparing to present a business plan for the BYU sponsored Social Venture Competition in 2011, and I needed a specific, narrow group to focus on as we prepare to work with other local organizations and the population to create four health clinics that over time will eventually be run by them.
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