Guatemala city: A Taiwan government-funded foreign aid agency’s collaboration with an American NGO launched earlier this year that provides mobile medical clinics to rural mountainous areas in Guatemala has so far helped over 7,000 underprivileged women and children.

According to Focus Taiwan, the TaiwanICDF joint project with the U.S.-based charity, Food For The Poor (FFTP), was launched in February 2025 to address the critical health care needs of impoverished families in the remote municipalities of Guatemala, Chimaltenango, and Sacatep©quez, in the Central American ally, the agency said in a Wednesday press release.

Since its initiation, the Taiwan Technical Mission in Guatemala and the FFTP have successfully provided mobile medical clinics covering Obstetrics and Gynecology, pediatrics, dental prophylaxis, and general medicine.

The press release quoted Peifen Hsieh, deputy head of TaiwanICDF, as saying that in addition to the mobile medical service, the agency is also working with Guatemala’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance on another project promoting medical technology to improve maternal-neonatal health in the country.

The ongoing project offers much needed health education to Guatemalan women as part of a female empowerment campaign that seeks to give them more autonomy in making decisions related to self-healthcare and healthcare for infants and children, it added.