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Executive Director Alex Galvez Reflects on a Great Day

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Today is just another morning here in Antigua — a brisk morning with where the trees' green leaves are flourishing after all of the rain the city has received in recent months. The flowers are more colorful than usual and there are clear views of the volcanos that tower over the horizon.

Today is also the day Transitions planned a small party with our patients from our prosthetics and orthotics program, and invited our students from our education and scholarship program. There was something different about today, even after knowing each one of these friends, we were pleasantly surprised to see them happier than before. It was today, at that moment, we could see why we are here with our mission.


 

LEGO Workshop a Success

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Jannicke Rogne, who is one of the Norwegian members from Design Without Borders working with Transitions Foundation here in Antigua, decided to make the Wheelchair Workshop a little more fun — with LEGO toys. Of course, there was a serious purpose behind the activity.

"I brought boxes of LEGO from Norway for us to use in our project," Rogne said. "LEGO can be used for testing ideas which allows for us to easier make mock-ups and test our ideas without building a complete chair."

However, she also wanted to involve the Guatemalan staff at the workshop.

"We had to come up with a way of letting all the guys have a go as well," she said.

So, the Design Without Borders team arranged a building LEGO day, with the goal to see how technical they could make things before it got too complicated.

"And yes, we managed to make it way too complicated for even us to manage to do it ourselves ... but nevertheless, we had a great time and we hope the guys did too. We will be doing this regularly to see whether we are able to explain the concept of technical drawings by the use of LEGO."



 

Open Letter About the Tragic Loss of Julio Ramirez

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Hoy es un día para celebrar la vida de nuestro querido hermano Julio Ramírez. Julio ha sido llamado desde el cielo el día Sábado 28 de Mayo para cumplir con la voluntad de Dios, regresar a él.

El ha compartido con nosotros mas de la mitad de su vida, esto es algo muy especial ya que nos lleno de alegría sin medida. Julio fue ese líder, héroe que miraba cada día su vida con una finalidad, ayudar a su prójimo antes que a el mismo, ayudo a muchos niños en nuestro taller siempre con una sonrisa, fue ese líder y ejemplo que tanto buscamos en nosotros. Fue el cristo en vida que a veces buscamos en lo alto del cielo y lo tuvimos al lado de nosotros, tuvo tantos retos en su vida pero mas alegrías que llenaban su mundo de amor para todos nosotros. El siempre tenia una sonrisa para nosotros, siempre hacia que las cosas malas no fueran tan malas como las alegrías enfrente de nosotros. Tenia una familia y una querida esposa quienes lo queríamos mucho y al que el respetaba y admiraba, eso lo podíamos ver en su rostro.


 

Transitions Staff Has Successful Trip to Boston

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Transitions Foundation staff members Hugo Aquino and Pedro Joel Ajanel traveled to Boston and Cambridge the first week of May to meet with students and faculty at MIT as the two groups continue to work on designs for wheelchairs that can not only be used more effectively in developing nations, but also constructed affordably in those same countries.

Dos miembros de Transiciones - Hugo Aquino y Pedro Joel Ajanel - viajaron a Boston y Cambridge de EE.UU. la primera semana de Mayo para reunirse con los estudiantes y la facultad de MIT para platicar sobre el tema de como mejorar las sillas de ruedas para la gente de Guatemala.

"It was a great experience to see how they worked. Most of what they do for the design process is on the computer as opposed to what we do which is in the workshop physically making the chairs," said Ajanel. "I feel like we learned a lot and we were able to pass on our experiences to them."

"Fue una gran experiencia ver como trabajaron. La mayoria de lo que hacen es en la computadora a diferencia de lo que hacemos en el taller donde trabajamos con las manos," dijo Ajanel. "Creo que aprendimos muchisimo y pasamos nuestros experiencas a los estudiantes de MIT."


 

Transitions Staff Meets with Government

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Transitions Foundation's senior management held several meetings with Guatemalan government officials over the last few weeks to discuss our organization's mission to help improve the lives of disabled Guatemalans, and how Transitions can provide the administration with different mobility devices.

Transiciones tuvo varias reuniones con politicos del gobierno de Guatemala en las últimas semanas para discutir la misión de nuestra organización para ayudar a mejorar la vida de los guatemaltecos con discapacidad, y cómo transiciones pueden proporcionar a la administración con diferentes dispositivos de movilidad.

"It was a great opportunity for Transitions Foundation to speak with the politicians in charge of policy in our country in order to further impress upon them the importance of taking into the consideration of the disabled in our society as Guatemala continues to develop," said Alex Gálvez, executive director at Transitions Foundation.

"Fue una gran oportunidad para la organizacion para hablar con los políticos a cargo de la política en nuestro país con el fin de impresionar aún más en ellos la importancia de tomar en la consideración de las personas con discapacidad en nuestra sociedad como Guatemala continúa desarrollando," dijo Alex Gálvez, director ejecutivo de Transiciones.


 


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