Hospitalito Atitlan

In 2005 there was a great hurricane that caused mudslides all over Guatemala. At that time, the Hospitalito Atitlan in Panabaj had recently been restored when a mudslide came and carried it away, destroying it totally and causing such havoc that it(and all of Panabaj) were declered legally uninhabitable. Kaslimaal, the comittee to rebuild the Hospitalito immediately arranged for and set up a temporary hospital in a rented house. Since then, it has served as the temporary Hospitalito Atitlan.

Meanwhile there is a community project to rebuild Hospitalito Atitlan in a safer place. It has evolved into a project that will make the hospital one of the best equipped facilities in Solola.

Since four years ago Festival Atitlan has donated ALL of our proceeds to Kaslimaal to help with the construction of the new Hospital. In 2009 we managed to donate Q15,452 directly. Besides that amount, another Q5000 came from the Raffle/auction and another Q750 from art sales in the Gallery. There were a couple of donations directly to the Hospitalito as well. Since any donations will be duplicated by the Kendeda fund... the Festival Atitlan generated approx. Q42,000 this year...You see that we can make a difference?!.

I went for a walk the other day to the site where they are building the Hospitalito. The foundations for the main building are going in, and they already finished the storage building and the containing walls that circulate the property. They also finished the parking lot. There were lots of masons and activity all over. You can see a nice slideshow of the current work at the Hospitalito here You can find more information at http://www.puebloapueblo.org

The Hospitalito plans