The grand opening of the Roger William Lytle Eye Clinic in Chichicastanengo, Guatemala was on March 22, 2018.  The Sponsel Foundation sponsored a team of 11 volunteers to work on this very successful mission trip. That team was able to examine a total of 164 patients and perform 43 surgical procedures in 3 days with 1 surgeon, Dr. William E. Sponsel.
       Optometrist Amy Schnegg, was able to assist with the patient exams along with our ophthalmic technicians, nurses and other volunteers. The RWL clinic is housed in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Chichicastenango. We would love to thank the gracious Mark Snoddy and family for providing the space and hospital staff support. 

      The RWL clinic will be a permanent Ophthalmic clinic/surgical area for Ophthalmic teams worldwide to utilize for their mission work in Guatemala. We already have a team from Arkansas in place to go in July 2018 that will be utilizing the clinic and Dr. Sponsel will be visiting again in June 2018 to run a small clinic/surgical trip with 2 optometrists from Lloyal University.
      Thanks to 2 amazing young women, Naomi Bauman, RN a newly graduated nurse living in Guatemala and Mayra Sofia Duran, a psychologist from Guatemala who worked with our team as translators, the RWL clinic will continue to run smoothly whenever a team can be utilized and the clinic will be able to uphold the standard of care that mimics our care here in the U.S.