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Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
What we do

Four programmes in two municipalities, since 1994.

Health, education, early childhood and community. Always with the public system, never instead of it: we support the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education services where they do not reach.

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Where

Antigua Guatemala and San Pedro Yepocapa

Two municipalities fifty kilometres apart. Community days also reach other communities in Acatenango, Patzicía and Yepocapa.

Photo: Not So Dusty, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Antigua GuatemalaSacatepéquez · Rekko 8 clinic since 2008
Photo: Mardoqueo Sagastume, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
San Pedro YepocapaChimaltenango · Rekko 7 clinic since 1997, the Escuelita and the scholarships
The communitiesAcatenango, Patzicía and Yepocapa · outreach with the Ministry of Health
The programmes

What we do, programme by programme

Health

Rekko 8 in Antigua and Rekko 7 in San Pedro Yepocapa: primary care with specialties for people who find no answer at the public health centre and cannot afford private care. Patients pay a token fee; those who cannot are exempt.

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Education

In San Pedro Yepocapa, where more than half the population has not finished primary school, the Escuelita Gian Carlo Noris and the scholarship programme accompany children from preschool to secondary school, and work to reduce drop-out.

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Early childhood

A five-year programme so that children in Yepocapa grow up in a safe, protective and stimulating environment, with families, schools and the health centre. Piloted in 2025, it starts in full in 2026.

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Community

Outreach days in the communities with the Ministry of Health and other organisations, and training of local health staff so that what starts with Rekko stays in the community.

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How we work

Four rules that do not change

Complement, never replace

Agreements with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. We refer to the public health centre and take its referrals.

Patients sustain the clinics

Every consultation has a token fee; those who cannot pay are exempt. It pays most of the clinics’ running costs; donations cover the rest and the programmes without fees.

Local staff, volunteers who add

The team is Guatemalan. International volunteers, clinicians and teachers, reinforce for a season and leave; the programme stays.

Measure and report

Each programme has indicators, an annual report and, when there is a funder, technical and financial reporting.

Rekko in numbers

What changes, year by year

  • 25,592
    patients attended · 2024
  • 116
    children in the education programme · 2025
  • 678
    women screened for cervical cancer · 2025
  • 29
    health professionals across the two clinics · 2024

Numbers from the Memoria de labores 2024 and 2025 and the 2025 Community Health Programme report. Every number carries its year. See all results

Ready to help?

There are many ways to be part of it. Pick the one that suits you; they all reach the same place.

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A few times a year: what happened at the clinics and the school, with photos and numbers.