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.
The Horizons Initiative seeks to regenerate and rejuvenate more than 36,000 hectares of agricultural landscapes in the border region of Guatemala's Western Highlands. Implementing Catholic Relief Services (CRS) flagship approaches and methodologies, Horizontes supports communities to have water and soil for agriculture, inclusive markets, territorial governance, financial services and other opportunities that enable them to achieve dignified lives.
Rights Action works in Honduras and Guatemala in support of community-based land, environmental and human rights defenders resisting harms and (often deadly) violence caused by different sectors of the global economy: mining and hydro-electric dams; for-export production of African palm, sugarcane and bananas; tourism and the ‘sweatshop’ garment industry.
An internationally supported organization, we work under the umbrella of Youth For Human Rights International providing human rights education and human rights education materials for violence prevention.
Fundación Defensores de la Naturaleza is a Guatemalan organization with 39 years of experience. We are responsible for the co-administration of 4 protected areas that represent 5% of the national territory. We work on 5 strategic pillars: Climate Action and Resilience, Natural Areas and Biodiversity, Environmental Education and Awareness, Citizen Advocacy and Internal Organizational Development. We are also part of the Alliance for the Conservation of Pine-Oak Forests in Mesoamerica, in which we actively participate to meet the specific demands of this ecosystem.
Our purpose is that more people, organizations and communities of the urban middle class in Guatemala recognize the importance of politics in their daily lives and opt for local, collective and sustained political action to build dignified living conditions for all people.
The Ak' Tenamit Association is a grassroots indigenous organization with more than 30 years of experience promoting training processes for decent employment. It has 1,036 rural indigenous interns taking Basic and Expert courses under a work-based learning methodology.
Pastoral Social Caritas de los Altos, is an entity of the Archdiocese of Los Altos, which began its social and humanitarian function 47 years ago, has sought the development of the promotion and dignification of the person, the family and the community by implementing its actions in the areas of land, health, women, humanitarian aid, organization, development and capacity building, education, etc..
ACD Guatemala (Asociación para la creatividad y el desarrollo de Guatemala) is a non-profit organization operating in Western Guatemala. Our mission is to serve children and families exposed to vulnerable conditions, violence and irregular migration in rural and complex areas of Guatemala. Our headquarters are located in Quetzaltenango.
We focus on education, development, medical and spiritual care, helping children and adolescents engage in life purpose, healthy relationships and participation to experience community growth.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BASIN OF THE LAKE OF IZABAL" "CODESCLI" and commonly called SA' KOMONIL ASSOCIATION which is a second level organization, civil, formative, educational, non-profit, apolitical and non-religious based, This allows us to interact in order to generate alternatives in the social, environmental, agrarian and productive areas, for the search of a sustainable development and the Good Living that allows to improve the living conditions of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous Communities; achieve an ecological balance and peaceful coexistence with the
ROMPIENDO LÍMITES -ASORO- was born from the initiative of people with and without disabilities, who joined forces to work with people with disabilities and their families, working in the department of Chiquimula, specifically in the municipalities of Jocotán, Camotán, Olopa and San Juan Ermita, which belong to the Chortí region and are located within the area recognized as the "Dry Corridor", as well as in Chiquimula, the capital.
We enhance the impact of organizations, governments and philanthropic funds, facilitating the identification of their challenges and building ways of working that allow them to maximize their value generation. Here's how we do it:
1) We embed agile frameworks in teams.
2) We design and facilitate events.
3) We assist in the development or strengthening of sustainable organizational models.
4) We promote the design and development of learning communities.
5) We facilitate the design of products and services.
We are an Environmentalist NGO that is constantly gathering scientific facts and sharing it with our audience to create a change that can not only save our planet but improve the every day lives of people and animals world wide. We fight against lack of knowledge and indifference. This is only achieved by informing people with the truth and connecting with their emotions.
Tikal Canal facilitates volunteer led workshops in San Felipe de Jesus, Tzununa La Laguna, and Nebaj, Quiché.
Guatemalan NGO, through social aid, seeks to improve the living conditions of families, children, education, preventive health and nutrition programs to reduce diseases and causes of death due to malnutrition.
We are a community of missionaries serving and living in low-income communities.
As a biblical Dutch foundation, Woord en Daad, together with local partners and actors from relevant sectors, connects people worldwide. In this way we want to take responsibility for shaping a dignified existence for the rich and poor and we create hope and opportunities to transcend poverty. Together with our loyal supporters and experienced partners, we have been working on sustainable change for 47 years.
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.
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.
We are an organization of feminist women working for women's human rights through comprehensive care, political advocacy, and leadership training.
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