(Women’s International Network for Guatemalan Solutions),  focuses on women’s health issues.  Wings provides information, financial resources and access to reproductive health services for impoverished Guatemalans enabling them to plan their families, and thereby improving their reproductive health and their quality of life. WINGS does not provide funding for abortions.

WINGS was recently (Oct. 2007) awarded recognization as the best humanitarian organization currently working in Guatemala.

World Links role with WINGS is to provide health and management consultation, and procurement of funding. Programs include:

Family Planning:  Provides family planning education and training, as well as funds necessary to  pay for family planning methods sought by those who cannot afford them.  WINGS works closely with APROFAM (a Guatemalan non-profit organization with 40 years experience in health), the Ministry of Health, and a number of other non-profit organizations.

Cervical cancer prevention, detection and treatment: Provides education, pap smears, and follow-up treatment to prevent cervical cancer.

Youth WINGS: Works to insure that youth have reliable information regarding reproductive health and family planning.

Costs:

$1,000 buys cervical cancer prevention and detection for 200 women

$500 pays for tubal legations for 31 women

$250 pays for vasectomies for 15 men

$50 provides 16 depo shots, which prevent pregnancy for three months

In 2004 WINGS:

Enabled tubal legations for 5,397 women and provided 101 vasectomies

Provided 1,627 pregnancy-prevention shots (valid for 3 months) and birth control pills

Arranged and supported Pap smears and follow-up treatments (when necessary) for 4,113 women