This isn’t self-indulgent it’s a chance to test your strength, to get a little scared doing something new and to see your efforts take shape in a very real way. Voluntourism is a cultural exchange that’s great for the soul, but not in the style of Eat, Pr ay, Love. This experience lends a whole new dimension to travel. We’re told entire families live in a single room held together with wood and tin.Ī common sight in Guatemala: children taking care of even younger kids. Smoke from unseen fires swirls into the thin mountain air, carrying the faint scent of corn tortillas. On the doorstep of cozy Casa de los Abuelos, our lodge, bony goats and cows are tethered to rotting fences. Pulling into Tecpán feels like a sock to the gut. Then it’s onward to grittier Tecpán, a Mayan city near our building site, with dirt roads and a vigilante justice system because there are few police. We spend our first day walking Antigua’s cobblestone streets, taking in Spanish baroque architecture and eating tortilla soup at the 16th-century Café Condesa. Stray dogs dodge cars a man beside us rides a motorbike with a toddler on his lap and a woman at the back no one wears helmets. The next thing I know, I’m in a bus barrelling down a twisting highway toward Guatemala’s old capital city, Antigua, with a group of like-minded travellers.
I explain that I’m here to help build a “children’s village.” I heave on my backpack and head toward border control, patrolled by men with guns on their backs. So I have no idea what to expect when the plane touches down in Guatemala City. I’ve never been to a developing country my passport is sparsely stamped with imprints from places where tap water is drinkable, roads uniformly paved and dogs leashed. The project promotes use of procurement mechanisms that reliably deliver low cost, high caliber products that meet or exceed international quality standards to achieve the best value for money.Volcán de Agua (Volcano of Water), one of 22 volcanoes in Guatemala, forms the backdrop to the city of Antigua. In Central America, the project provides technical assistance in forecasting and supply planning, procurement, and warehousing and inventory management. GHSC-PSM ensures the uninterrupted supply of health commodities to improve people’s lives worldwide. GHSC-PSM’s expertise in market dynamics played a critical role in bringing these entities to the table and highlighting the benefits of purchasing together to optimize future financial resources, thus putting them on the path to lasting self-reliance. COMISCA is armed with harmonized product lists and combined forecasts, and therefore better able to identify vendors and source products. For now, the combined purchasing power of these entities is bolstering their negotiating power. With the MOH and IGSS procurement budgets already committed through 2020, the benefits of this new arrangement will truly be seen in 2021. Additionally, the regional study of procurement options has potential to benefit other countries in Central America looking to follow Guatemala’s example. The MOH and IGSS have used COMISCA's services individually in the past but will now combine procurements for larger volumes and more competitive prices. GHSC-PSM brought COMISCA together with the MOH and the IGSS for a workshop, further empowering these institutions to cooperate, harmonize lists, and work together to secure competitive rates. As a result of the assessment, the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMISCA) procurement agent was selected.
0 kommentar(er)
