Old Yellow School Bus that Became a Mobile Medical Clinic

		Part 1 - Fundraising, Refitting and Delivering In 2006 the Ottawa chapter of the Guatemala Stove Project, decided to focus their fundraising energies on acquiring a large 66 passenger school bus and converting it into a Mobile Medical Clinic (MMC) to be donated to CEDEC (Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la cooperaciÃ³n), a Guatemalan community health organization the GSP has worked very closely with for the past nine years. After several fundraising dances and events held with the support of the Ottawa/Gatineau Guatemalan Community Association, a suitable retired school bus was found and donated in August 2007, leaving several thousand dollars that could be used for the refurbishing and outfitting of the Clinic.
		Part 2 - The Clinic Arrives - Providing Services - Journal by Vivianne Rotondo January 31: Rita Redner reports: The Mobile Medical Clinic arrived in Guatemala on Tuesday Jan 29. Regan, Paul and Luis were met by JosÃ© Yac at the border, el Carmen. It took them 10 hours to get through the Guatemalan border and pay taxes and duty on the Mobile Clinic and goods (everything on the bus made it through). The Mobile Clinic is now securely parked in Cantel and will be unpacked when we get to Guatemala in a couple of days!
		Part 3 - Dr Lyall Black's Journal - Life in a Highland Village and Observations of Medical Services On Friday Feb. 11, Vivienne Rotondo and I, Lyall Black, spent the day in a Mayan village, in the western highlands of Guatemala working in the converted school bus. To start off, some relevant background information will be helpful. San Francisco el Alto is a large rural area, about a one hour drive west of Quetzaltenango, our home base for the stove building trip. The area contains a number of villages. Our village, which is fairly typical, is 10,000 ft above sea level. It is reached by a rough dirt road, with dirt walking trails to individual houses.

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