Faith In Practice

This week, Team Wani # 908 served Guatemala with extraordinary compassion and dedication, providing:
✨ 81 ENT surgeries
✨ 21 Gynecology surgeries
✨ 67 General surgeries

A total of 169 life-changing surgeries were performed, bringing healing, hope, and renewed dignity to patients and families across Guatemala.

We are deeply grateful for the unconditional service, expertise, and love this team shared throughout the week. Thank you for answering the call to serve and for making a lasting difference in the lives of so many. 🙌🇬🇹

Cesia’s story

Behind this toothless little grin is a little girl who loves cats, sings songs she learned in school, and shyly looks to her father for reassurance before sharing her voice with the world. 💛

But behind her smile is also a story of pain, resilience, and hope.

At just a toddler, Cesia suffered a devastating hand injury that changed the course of her childhood. As years passed, severe scarring slowly stole the use of her tiny fingers turning everyday moments like coloring, playing, and holding toys into painful challenges.

For nearly two years, her father Luis searched tirelessly for help. Then, hope arrived through Obra Social Hermano Pedro and Faith In Practice.

This week, Cesia underwent her second surgery with our Plastics surgical team, bringing her one step closer to healing, freedom, and the chance to use her little hands the way every child should. Her journey is far from over, but each surgery gives her more movement, more comfort, and more possibility for the future.

What moved us most was not only Cesia’s courage, but her father’s unwavering love. Traveling 8 hours each way, sitting alone in waiting rooms while trusting strangers with the hands of his daughter, Luis reminded us of what faith truly looks like.

Stories like Cesia’s are only possible because people choose to care. Because volunteers show up, who believe in the mission, whose compassion travels across borders and reaches children who need it most.

Your generosity is not just funding surgeries it is restoring childhoods, dignity, hope, and healing for families like Cesia’s. 💙

A special thank you to Team T. Davis 906, and to Michelle and Daniel Montes, whose storytelling and photography helped bring Cesia’s journey to life and share her story with the world.

Read Cesia’s full story here: https://www.faithinpractice.org/blog/day-3-tuesday-may-12th-2026/

The Clegg Surgery #907 team impacted 56 lives through compassionate orthopedic care at Obras Sociales, working tirelessly to restore mobility, relieve pain, and bring hope to patients in Guatemala through:

✨ 26 Knee Surgeries
✨ 14 Hip Surgeries
✨ 16 Hand Surgeries

Every procedure represents a renewed opportunity for healing, movement, and a better quality of life.

Don’t miss the chance to read the incredible journey of service! Visit the link to read the full mission blog and experience the stories and how this team transformed lives.

https://www.faithinpractice.org/blog/category/907/

Thank you to every surgeon, volunteer, and staff member who made this mission possible through service and compassion. 💙🇬🇹

Before sunrise, they began a journey of more than 12 hours crossing long roads and remote terrain with one purpose: making sure women are not forgotten. 💜 Between 27 nurses and doctors from Guatemala united by one purpose: learning the IVAA technique to bring lifesaving women’s healthcare back to their communities.

This week in Playa Grande Ixcán, Quiché, healthcare professionals from across Guatemala are training together to strengthen cervical cancer prevention efforts and serve nearly 800 women from remote villages.

For many women, access to preventive care is limited by distance, resources, and opportunity. Through this training, these providers are helping change that reality bringing education, early detection, and compassionate care closer to home.

Every lesson learned, every mile traveled, and every patient served is part of a greater mission: ensuring women in rural communities are seen, cared for, and protected.🇬🇹✨