Our Story
Charlotte and Rodrigo have participated with NGO´s for many years in projects that focus on helping people in different areas (health, social, economy). Charlotte has participated as a volunteer and paramedic in Germany and Rodrigo as a translator, constructor, administrator and doctor in Guatemala, El Salvador, Switzerland, and Germany. They share a common passion for helping people in need whenever it is possible.
In 2021 during Charlottes first time visiting Guatemala, she witnessed the difficulties that a big part of the population confronts on a daily basis. Rodrigo was active with a Swiss foundation which focuses on providing primary-level education for children in Nicaragua (Amigos Nicas) and they were looking for a way to help these children have a high-school and university-level education. This is how Facilitamed was born with the aim of helping medical students finish their studies and be factors of change in their communities.
Charlotte and Rodrigo are both doctors who live and work in Germany, which is why they decided to start this project together with other doctors and help medical students complete their studies. Rodrigo is Guatemalan and lived most of his life there; so they decided to take advantage of his contacts in El Salvador and Nicaragua and not limit Facilitamed´s help to a single country, but expand it to a whole region, Central America!