Consider sharing our mission with a group of your friends.
Here's a sample of what you might put in the body of your first email.
Dear friends,
I have worked with the Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership (GMRP)
for (one year) (10 years) and want to tell you what a huge impact it has had on my life. It has shown me that one group of committed professionals and volunteers can actually make a life-changing difference in the quality of people's lives. I have seen the results, and it makes me feel hopeful that common people like ourselves can make the world a better place.
We have hired a Guatemalan health care promoter (Flory) to arrange surgeries for patients in need in Guatemala. She also negotiates reduced prices for our patients.
Patients, their families and neighbors are asked to contribute what they can to their care, as well, so they are also invested in following through with therapies, etc. This also allows us to serve more people. We pay whatever the patients can't.
In the attached pages, I'd like to share some photos and stories about the people we've helped in Guatemala. I hope they will inspire you to also have hope that there is good in our world.
If you'd like to join us in this work, donations are always needed and will be used for patient surgeries and care.
If you aren't able, prayers for our work and sharing our story and photo pages are also great ways to support our mission. Part of our work is educating people in Guatemala and the US about the possibilities of working together.
Donation info is on the photo pages, if you are interested in helping.
(Sign off and attach some photo pages.)
Of course you can make any changes you want to make this more personal, It's just a place to start.
I have a group of around 300 friends I send the pages to.
Maybe 15-20 of them contribute,
a few more reply to my emails with words of encouragement and thanks, and over the past years, maybe 3 or 4 have asked to be taken out of the group.
So I'm educating many people and bringing in some donations, prayers and sharing of the mission.
Any of you could do the same thing.
I've found that personally getting a message from me and the photo pages is much more likely to produce results than a blurb on my Facebook page.
People like the personal touch.
(By the way, photo pages can NOT be shared on Facebook. They contain way to much personal health info with a patient photo.)
Hoping many of you will take the time to try this. Flory is getting MANY calls from people who know we're not coming this year, but who are hoping we will still support surgeries and care that is needed. I have told her we have to more or less triage and only do the most dire, or at times maybe the cheapest, cases, to make our $$ last. Any donations will mean another person can be helped.
💞 Barb
We have had a very good response to these first two pages for 2021 which I will be sharing soon. They would be great pages for you to start your sharing with ! 😀
