Since 1996, Cooperative for Education has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. Our sustainable textbook, computer, reading, and youth development programs have transformed the lives of more than a quarter million students. We empower rural Guatemalan communities to transform their own quality of education, with a focus on evening the playing field for girls, who are typically excluded from education.
Asociación EDUSI is a non-profit organization that works in Sacatepequez to change the lives of the most vulnerable people through education, health and economic development.
We are a community of missionaries serving and living in low-income communities.
Escuela Integrada de Niños Trabajadores is a school that started almost 20 years ago as a way to provide accessible education to children who were working on the streets.
Lead-Up is a 501c3 registered non profit whose aim is to reduce violence by creating peaceful leaders through workshops with horses. It works principally, though not exclusively, with the young between the ages of 15-24 to provide a compassionate and non-judgemental environment, removed from the violence, abuse and addiction often experienced at home. Lead-Up’s programs have now also led to additionally the implementation of vocational opportunities for participants in its programs through the vocational program as well as actively developing employment initiatives.
We are an organization focused on providing inclusive education, through the educational center Síndrome de Amor, classes from pre-primary, primary, basic and diversified, garden, cooking classes, nursery and farm animals.
ADUS is a non-profit, humanitarian-minded, altruistic, and mostly youth organization.
Sonidos Para La Vida is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote the practice of a musical instrument in children and youth with limited resources or at risk, as a means of prevention and as a means of creating better opportunities in the lives of all these children and youth. We provide study programs of different musical instruments, as well as musical instruments themselves, so that children and youth have free access to these resources and thus can progress in their study.
Partner for Surgery serves with the goal to improve health, empower communities, and overcome barriers. We are on the front lines of medical and surgical care in rural Guatemala focusing on bringing quality health care and surgical solutions to where most impoverished Guatemalans live. Our service model allows us to bridge language, distance, and cultural barriers. And our health promoters, staff, volunteers, and donors all partner to ensure our programs secure the solution each patient needs, from the time we meet them in their communities until we return home with them after surgery.
Academia de Salud Integral is a non-profit scientific association that brings together professionals from different areas and disciplines with the aim of promoting mental and integral health through various teaching, research and assistance programs.
One of our fundamental objectives is the promotion of personal, family and social mental health based on an absolute respect for the life and dignity of the person.
We carry out all our academic work based on a defined and solid anthropological criterion with a personalist foundation.