Asociación Pop No'j

Non profit organization

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. Among the issues we address are: Migration, Prevention of Violence (mainly gender and child sexual abuse), Livelihoods, Protagonism of Indigenous Women and Youth, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Climate Change, among others.

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Target populations:

Women

Men

Girls

Boys

Entrepreneurs

Youth

Focus areas:

Children at risk

Human Rights

Immigration

Entrepreneurship/Business

Environment

Leadership/Capacitation

Key service areas:

Huehuetenango (Huehuetenango )

Organizational contacts & locations

Contacts

Karina Chogüix

President of the Board of Directors

(502) 2251 5716

mkarincita21@gmail.com

Juan José Hurtado Paz y Paz

Executive Director

2238 0905

juanjoseh@asociacionpopnoj.org

Johnatan Mejía

Management Assistant

2238 0905

info@asociacionpopnoj.org

Locations

3 Avenida 0-80

Zona 3, colonia Bran

Guatemala City

Guatemala

01003

Mission, vision & values

Mission

Promote, disseminate and accompany processes of organization, training and participation of the Mayan People according to their Cosmovision, identity and rights.

Vision

To be a reference in the development of political, socioeconomic and cultural capacities of the Mayan People.

Values

respect

reciprocity

simplicity

Honorability

transparency

co-responsibility

coherence

and gratitude.

Products, services, and programs

Services

Support for the return and reintegration of returned migrant children, mainly indigenous; support for women who suffer gender-based violence; promotion of family gardens and other economic initiatives; education and training for youth leadership and indigenous women.

Programs

Women's and Youth Programs, aimed at the social, political, economic and cultural empowerment of women and young people; and the Migration Axis, oriented to the promotion of the rights of people in contexts of human mobility.

Organizational detail

Founded

2005

Number of employees

26-50

Funding

Private donations

Primary issue(s) / need(s) addressed

Create conditions so that people are not forced to migrate; accompany deported migrant children, mainly indigenous, in their process of return and reintegration to their communities of origin.
Prevent different forms of violence, with emphasis on gender violence and child sexual abuse. Guatemalan society has been forged throughout history as violent. One of its expressions is gender violence and child sexual abuse. One of the indirect indicators of this is the number of pregnancies of women under 18 years of age.
Promote the participation of women and men, especially young people in different spaces.

Impact, adaptations & objectives

Impact to date

In 2021:

46 women leaders from 6 municipalities of Huehuetenango were trained as Mayan Women Defenders against Gender Violence. The leaders were integrated into the Network of Mayan Women Defenders.
104 teachers were trained in the prevention of child sexual abuse. Those trained replicate the knowledge acquired with other people in their community and in the case of teachers, with their students.
We trained 52 young people from the Mam Area and the Huista Region of Huehuetenango on their rights, political advocacy, theater and community youth organization.
We accompanied 11 youth groups and 3 networks of youth organizations.
We supported 18 individual and collective youth economic initiatives, including 2 community stores.
Integral accompaniment was provided to 113 children and adolescents - NNA - migrant returnees from the United States and Mexico and their families, of which 68 had been accompanied since 2020, to which 45 new cases were added in 2021. Of these, 64 cases were closed as the purpose of the accompaniment had been fulfilled, so we started 2022 with 49 cases.
We supported 28 families in the implementation of family gardens. We also supported 11 families with seed capital for animal husbandry and other enterprises.

Impact measuring

Reports, evaluations, and life histories.

Organizational adaptations

Size and/or structure

Key service offerings (i.e.

services

programs

products)

Location

Organizational adaptation details

Pop No'j has grown as an organization, with a larger number of staff. One area of work that began in 2010 is migration, which is the one that has had the greatest growth, mainly due to the interest that different actors are paying to the problem. We have focused on the department of Huehuetenango, specifically in the Mam Area and the Popti Region.

Short term objectives

We foresee our growth not in expanding the territory of coverage, but in improving the service we provide.
To provide better psycho-social attention to returned children and their families, as well as to improve the accompaniment of the development of the livelihoods of individuals, families and communities.
We promote a greater protagonism of the people and groups we work with.

Long term objectives

To be a reference in the development of political, socioeconomic and cultural capacities of the Mayan people. We seek to contribute to the processes of organization, training, promotion and participation of the Mayan people for the construction of "good living" in Guatemala. For this, it is essential to strengthen the organization and the development of alliances and networking.

Profile updated: 01/05/23

Asociación Pop No'j