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This is the story of how a pair of glasses gets donated - processed - and dispensed to a patient in the Ixcán.

 
ENFOQUE IXCÁN
eye care and health education for
the people of the Ixcán region of Guatemala
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Board of Directors


 


Dr. Scott Pike
President of Board and Corporation since 2005
Founding Board Member
Portland, Oregon

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Dr. Scott Pike is a graduate of Pacific University College of Optometry.  In 2006 he retired from private practice and is now an assistant professor at the College.  Scott has served as a volunteer and member of several local non-profit organizations.  He started his eye care project in Guatemala in 1997, and has visited the Ixcán once or twice a year since then.


Amanda Terhes worked as program manager for the 13 years before returning to post-graduate study.  She received her Masters Degree in Applied Anthropology in 2007.  She has volunteered for fundraising and program planning activities with multiple area non-profits and is currently an instructor in the Business School at Oregon State University

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Amanda Terhes
Secretary of the Board since 2005
Founding Board Member
Eugene, Oregon

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Cyra Koupal
Board Member since 2010
San Francisco, California

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Cyra Koupal is originally from San Jose, California, and first became passionate about Latin America while living in Uruguay as a high school exchange student nearly 15 years ago. Since, Cyra has lived in Guatemala, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil and holds a Bachelor's degree from Tulane University in Latin American Studies and Brazilian Studies. Cyra served as a human rights accompanier in one returned refugee community and conducted monthly visits to six communities containing witnesses in a legal case against former military dictator General Romeo Lucas Garcia in the Ixcán region of Guatemala from 2004 to 2005. Since 2007, Cyra has helped monolingual clients access necessary legal and social services by serving as a volunteer interpreter in the areas of family, immigration, bankruptcy and landlord/tenant law. Cyra has also trained new volunteer interpreters thus lending her expertise to ensure the growth of volunteer interpreter projects in San Francisco. Currently, she works as a freelance medical interpreter and is a student in the Spanish/English Legal Interpretation Program at San Francisco State University and in the Healthcare Interpreter Program at City College of San Francisco.

Dr. Debbie Billings is a researcher on women's health and rights, has worked throughout Latin America for over 20 years on issues related to family planning, migration, social justice and women's organizing. Debbie lived and worked in Guatemala during the early 1990s working with women's weaving cooperatives and then moved to Chiapas, Mexico where she conducted workshops with refugee women about their health. She also conducted life histories and wrote her PhD dissertation about women's organizing in exile. She, her husband and son currently live in Columbia, South Carolina.


Dr. Debbie Billings
Board Member 2008
Columbia, South Carolina

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Dwight Fleck
Treasurer of the Board since 2005
Founding Board Member
Fort Worth, Texas

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Dwight Fleck has been employed in risk management for over 37 years as an analyst, manager and consultant. He has also served as a leader in a boys camping based program for over 20 years. For over 15 years he served as Treasurer and member of the Board of two churches.


 Council of Electors

J. Eric Anderson
Ali Durbin
Suzanne McCann
Maureen L. McCrae
James Harrison Pike II
Ronald Craig Stout

 
Enfoque Ixcán is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization