WINGS Reproductive Healthcare for Every Guatemalan

WINGS IN THE NEWS

The challenges facing Guatemala as a result of rapid population growth have caught the eye of the international media. Several agencies have contacted WINGS to learn more about our work and how we are tackling the issue.

• WINGS Founder, Sue Patterson, makes the link between environmental degradation in Guatemala and lack of family planning (2011).
• Al Jazeera’s David Mercer follows WINGS Family Planning Educator, Evelyn, for a day (2011).
• PBS NewsHours’ Ray Suarez documents the barriers to family planning in Guatemala, interviewing members of WINGS to get an inside perspective (2011). 
• WINGS kicks off its 10th Anniversary “It all begin with family planning…” celebration in Antigua (2011).  
• WINGS’ Founder, Sue Patterson, and Development Director, Laurel White, reflect on the alarming public health toll cervical cancer is having in Guatemala (2009).

GUATEMALA IN THE NEWS

These pieces provide an overview of the many development issues facing Guatemala, which are underpinned by a lack of reproductive health services, including family planning.

• Guatemala and hunger, Al Jazeera, David Mercer (2011).
• Guatemala’s leaders face hunger crisis, Financial Times, Deborah Bonello (2011).
• Malnutrition plague’s Guatemala’s children, PBS NewsHour, Talea Miller (2011).
• Right to life Guatemala, Al Jazeera, Greg Brosnan (2011).
• Población crece y perpetúa pobreza en el país, según la ONU (Population grows and perpetuates poverty in the country, according to the UN), Prensa Libre (Major Guatemala newspaper), Leonel Días Zeceña (2011).
• No Woman No Cry (a documentary film focused on maternal health issues internationally with coverage of Guatemala), Every Mother Counts, Christy Turlington Burns (2010).