The Cadaniño Foundation works to serve vulnerable children in their communities through spiritual formation, educational reinforcement and family strengthening programs.
A non-profit association with a humanistic spirit. Founded in 2013, our work focuses are the prevention of violence, the process of transformation of lives, community development to improve the quality of life, and promoting the defense of equality and human rights.
Peronia Adolescente is an association legally constituted in 2004, working for a fairer reality for Guatemala. It facilitates spaces of integral formation, using games, art and alternative sports, promoting leadership and volunteering of adolescents and young people of scarce resources who are vulnerable in Ciudad Peronia.
Visibles is a community-based organization that works to achieve full inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people and to position diversity as a value in Guatemalan society.
We are a non-governmental organization that mobilizes youth and communities to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence and forced migration. We build partnerships with government, the private sector, and civil society to act in support of the community. We build on existing strengths and provide high-impact resources and sustainable solutions through:
Diálogos is a space for analysis, training and innovation that promotes evidence-based solutions to social problems at the regional level. All actions are aimed at encouraging public authorities, members of civil society organizations and journalists in training, research and innovation based on data and evidence to address and make decisions on social problems, in order to devise solutions and improve people's quality of life.
FUNDAECO is a Guatemalan organization established in 1990 and dedicated to nature conservation and the promotion of sustainable community development. In a context of high vulnerability to climate change, we seek to protect natural ecosystems and the environmental services they provide, as well as to promote the sustainable development of poor and vulnerable communities in regions of high biodiversity.
We are a Salesian Educational Community, integrated by lay people and Salesians of Don Bosco who form and educate for work the youth of Guatemala, our preferential referents, with the pedagogical principles of Don Bosco, using instruction based on competencies, entrepreneurship and life skills in order to have a positive impact on the reality of the country.
PENNAT We are an organization that fights for the rights and welfare of Guatemalan children and holds the State responsible for guaranteeing their protection.
We promote an alternative education that responds to the expectations, needs, interests and rights of working children in the markets, streets, avenues and parks of the metropolitan area and some municipalities in the department of Guatemala.
CuéntaNos is an interactive platform that contributes to empowerment through access to information on different types of direct care provided by different governmental and civil society entities that make up a network. People in need of care can make decisions and obtain support tools. We contribute to the emotional recovery of people in crisis, through psychosocial care via chat.
Non-profit association, with more than 20 years of work in Guatemala through the Futuro Vivo project, which seeks to provide tools and opportunities for a better future to families in extreme poverty in zone 16 of Guatemala City and in Samac Cobán, Alta Verapaz. A project strengthened by the spirituality of the Carmelite Sisters of the Teaching Missionaries, which provides quality education, food, health, community development, productive workshops, literacy to the families that are part of the project.
We are an organization formed by activists for the rights of children, adolescents and youth, with recognized trajectory and experience. We are a multidisciplinary organization with gender equity. We are an association that works with and for children, with a focus on girls and gender equity.
There is a growing gap in learning and economic opportunities between rural and urban areas worldwide, with the largest disparity in low-income countries. Project Alianza is looking to change that in Latin America through our women-led, community-driven initiative to close the region's rural-urban education gap. Our adaptive learning model upskills and hires local women as educators to create and curate experiential, interactive learning for children in remote communities.
Like many other Latin American countries that share the Pacific and Caribbean coastline, Guatemala is experiencing a crisis of development and overfishing, exacerbated by the lack of opportunities, income alternatives and the scarcity of scientific knowledge about the true state of the different fishery resource populations, mainly chondrichthyans. Faced with this situation, Mundo Azul Foundation has initiated its efforts to generate scientific information that advances the level of knowledge about sharks, rays and other fisheries.
Guatemala Youth Initiative (GYI) serves the youth in the marginalized communities that surround the landfill in Guatemala City, offering education and services so that they can achieve their goals. GYI offers three programs: comprehensive sexual education, free access to modern contraceptive methods, and empowerment for young mothers.
For over 36 years, Potter's House has walked alongside individuals, families and communities living in poverty and extreme poverty to develop long-term relationships and provide opportunities for holistic development through our 5 programs: Family Development, Education, Health and Nutrition, Microenterprise and Community Development.
From physical and mental transformation to spiritual transformation, we want to empower people in poverty throughout Guatemala and make significant changes in their lives and communities.
We are a foundation whose nature is private, non-partisan, non-profit, with social projection and humanitarian assistance.
Our vision is to educate the population through training and research on gender, ethics and human rights issues, promoting sustainable empowerment for the youth and women of the Central American region, shortening gender gaps and reducing violence based on in gender.
We promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing a support network in professional clothing and tools to thrive on the job.
Acción Humana NGO was born from the commitment of a group of young entrepreneurs who believe that human beings, through their will, can be responsible and participate in achieving their own goals and objectives, but that in most cases they do not have the economic tools or the opportunities to access educational programs that facilitate the processes of starting ideas, developing skills, acquiring knowledge and much less creating the necessary networking to make their own dreams come true.
Girl Rising works with local partners by providing customized tools and curricula to build confidence and agency in girls and to change attitudes and social norms so that entire communities stand up for girls and against gender discrimination.
Our story-based tools and curricula engage, energize and motivate young people to see beyond their borders, value their education, understand their rights and believe in their capacity to change their lives, communities, and even the world.
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