More than 35 years ago, Las Obras Sociales del Santo Hermano Pedro first began tending to poor and sick people in rented care homes and handing out provisions to the most needy, led by Fray Guillermo Bonilla. Nowadays, Las Obras Sociales (as it is known) houses 239 people with different chronic degenerative diseases in their 8 permanent care homes and fights against chronic malnutrition in Guatemala through their Center for Nutritional Recovery.
Many people go through the doors of Obras Sociales every day looking for help, whether through their general medicine or specialist consults, or through their laboratory service, diagnostic center or ophthalmology clinic. The services on offer also include an annual surgery program with pre- and post-operative areas. In 2015 alone more than 300,000 patients were attended to and over 5,000 surgeries were carried out.
Through their external centers Las Obras Sociales provides services such as a child daycare center, a rehabilitation home for substance abusers (Hogar el Renacer in Sumpango Sacatepequez) and an elderly-people’s home (San Juan Bautista) in Jutiapa.
All the good work and services that they provide is possible thanks to hundreds of people who contribute with donations and through the volunteers who help to keep the center on its feet. In the hope of touching more hearts and thus providing more help the ‘Virgen de Socorro’ expansion project has been created, with the idea of providing a better quality of life for the permanent residents of Obras Sociales.
Obras Sociales is made up of 6 buildings fully-equipped with all the necessary medical equipment to provide quality attention to the residents, as well as physiotherapy and rehabilitation areas. The project also boasts a provincial infirmary – the ‘Edificio de la Fraternidad’ – where old and infirm monks from the Minor Order of Monks who need specialized treatment live.
Through this project in La Antigua there will continue to be general medical and specialized consultations and an annual surgical program available for those who need it.
Obras Sociales del Santo Hermano Pedro
6a. Calle Oriente #20, La Antigua
PBX: 7931-2100
