This month, one week says a lot. Team Hope, our largest volunteer team of the year, treated 615 clinic patients, performed 138 surgeries, and installed smoke-free stoves and water filters for 126 families, across two regions of Guatemala at once. Inside that same week was Aldo, an ocular prosthetics specialist whose hand-painted work gave patients back more than their sight. Close behind, Team Honor reached 40 more families, and the women of HILARTE kept weaving opportunity out of thread.

Join us for An Evening in Paris on November 7 as we celebrate lives transformed and raise support for the work still ahead. Individual tickets are now available, and we would be honored to have you with us.

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This has been a summer of arrivals and returns. Teams landed in Guatemala to serve alongside families, surgeons returned to a hospital that had been waiting for them, and educators gathered to sharpen their craft. In this month’s issue: a week of care measured in patients and homes, the partnership that reopened an operating room, and the people whose steady presence makes all of it possible.

None of it happens without you. Thank you for walking alongside these families.

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This month we’re looking back, and forward. Nine years ago, IEP’s work in Guatemala started small: leftover food from a mission trip that led us to a rural schoolhouse, and a single volunteer medical team that spent one week seeing patients. This issue shares our brand-new 2025 Annual Report, the fullest picture yet of what showing up and staying has built, along with the origin stories behind it.

None of it happens without you. Thank you for walking alongside these families.

With gratitude,
The IEP Team

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Free medical care reaches Guatemala's western highlands June 21, new clean-water and cookstove partnerships take shape, and three MangoChango Academy graduates land their first jobs in tech.

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Dear IEP Friend,

May brought milestones worth celebrating. Students earned diplomas they worked hard for. Midwives strengthened skills that protect mothers and newborns. We sat with families in their homes and listened before anything else. And volunteers reflected on the kind of love that crosses every border.

This is what strengthening communities from the inside out looks like in practice — practical, relational, and built to last. Thank you for making all of it possible.

With gratitude,
The IEP Team

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