WJI is building a more equitable world for Maya women and girls by combating gender inequality and violence against women and girls. Through an innovative community-based approach, WJI is improving the lives of women and girls by increasing their access to justice and improving their ability to exercise their rights to live free from violence.
We aim to contribute to the construction of a just and inclusive society by facilitating processes that enable and promote the empowerment of people with disabilities, their families, and their community to advocate for, demand, and fully exercise their 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.
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.
ENTREMUNDOS fosters and consolidates the capacities and competencies of local development organizations in Guatemala - respecting their values, ethics, principles, policies, strategies and work methodologies.
We are an organization of feminist women working for women's human rights through comprehensive care, political advocacy, and leadership training.
We are a civil, non-profit organization made up of multidisciplinary professionals and merchants that works together with the rural population in search of comprehensive human development through comprehensive development and social assistance projects.
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.
Asociación Por una Vida Digna trains marginalized community leaders to promote their own development, actively participate in global networks to strengthen civil society organizations, and address citizen security, education and strengthening civil society.
Founded 2012 in Guatemala, as a private, non-profit, non-religious, non-partisan organization with its own assets. With the sole purpose of being a platform that promotes sustainable human development.
The Riecken Foundation promotes a network of innovative community libraries in Honduras and Guatemala that awaken the spirit of discovery and social participation through activities in the libraries. We have shown that community libraries are essential to a democratic society. Libraries are institutions that citizens use to make informed decisions and reach their full potential. They provide essential knowledge, encourage critical thinking, and encourage self-education and lifelong learning.
La Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena (The Ombudsman for Indigenous Women) promotes, defends and protects the rights of indigenous women towards the eradication of violence and discrimination in Guatemalan society.
Asociación K'amalb'e is an integral coexistence association inspired by the Mayan Cosmovision to open paths of transformation through integral and intercultural formation.
We are a civil organization of indigenous women of the Mayan culture, we support and work in solidarity with rural development, promoting the empowerment and autonomy of women in the various areas of their daily lives.
EDELAC is an association serving children in social exclusion who live in the west of the country of Guatemala.
As a fair trade organization, Sharing the Dream works with more than 20 groups of artisans around Guatemala, helping them to improve and sell their products. We operate an Elder Center in Santiago, where we provide meals, medical care, and care to more than 60 Maya elders. We also provide scholarships to a small group of promising students who must attend tutoring sessions, complete volunteer hours, and participate in reading activities in exchange for their scholarship.
MuJER is a feminist, community-based organization that works with and for women sex workers, migrant women, and survivors of violence against women through its programs that include development and access to classes, workshops, and Education and Training courses; taught with a popular education methodology, as an Empowerment tool for women with a human rights approach.
APEVIHS is a non-governmental and non-profit organization committed to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, research and humanitarian assistance and food and nutrition security, as well as projects in the areas of school education, entrepreneurship with women and local collaborations towards shared solutions to prevalent problems in the region.
Asociación Pop No'j is a non-profit, non-partisan civil organization that works with a focus on Indigenous Peoples. We promote reflection, analysis, research, exchange and learning. We facilitate and accompany processes of organization, training, promotion and participation of the Mayan People for the construction of "good living" in Guatemala. We were founded in June 2005. We have the following programs: Women, Youth and Migration. The work is supported by the Communication Unit and the Administration Department.
Alfaguat Association of Guatemala emerged as a non-profit civil entity in 2001 with the name Alfaguat of Guatemala, implementing educational literacy programs in different departments of the country, and then complementing its work with different types of community projects such as: preschools, primary education, HIV and AIDS prevention campaigns, technical centers for home electricity, improved stoves and reforestation, prevention of child malnutrition, occupational workshops for micro-enterprise, microcredit, human rights, social audits and others.
Wuqu ’Kawoq is innovating a healthcare model focused on providing high quality services with linguistic and cultural competence for indigenous, poor and marginalized communities in Guatemala.
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