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.
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.
SERES is a non-profit organization, founded in 2009, that works with marginalized and at-risk youth, at the forefront of climate change in Central America, training them to be agents of change, social entrepreneurs and leaders in sustainability capable of building more resilient and prosperous communities.
Planting Seeds is a non profit organization that seeks to eradicate the barriers that contribute to poverty by working with communities to provide high-quality comprehensive education for children and families throughout Guatemala.
CEIPA, the Ecumenical Center for Pastoral Integration, is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 as an extension of the San Marcos Episcopal Church. Directed by Reverend Ricardo García, it focuses on improving the conditions of working children and adolescents in Quetzaltenango. Initially, it guaranteed education, health and nutrition through programs such as street education and medical care. Beginning in 1991, it expanded its work with technical training and promotion of rights through media and public activities. Since 1996, it expanded to additional municipalities.
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.
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.
Jolu de Guatemala is an organization that works with adolescents and youth, the LGBT+ community and mental health, with a special focus on suicide prevention.
650 million people live in extreme poverty. We cannot solve this challenge alone. We work with incredible partners at different levels to help women lift themselves out of poverty. Our programs aim to reach the most marginalized communities, such as women, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities and internally displaced people. Our participants are the ones with the ideas and determination to end extreme poverty. Our approach allows us to partner with women starting their own microenterprises and improve financial inclusion.
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..
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.
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.
Since 2002, Asociación TAN UX'IL has worked for the well-being of adolescents and youth through sexual and reproductive health projects and programs that promote youth leadership and the defense of sexual and reproductive rights.
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.
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.
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.
Ocote is a media outlet founded in Guatemala and led mainly by women, which, from diverse perspectives, engages in journalism in dialogue with culture and thought in order to promote reflection, conversation and encounters among Central American citizens. It has a mixed sustainability model and is legally constituted as a non-profit association (Asociación Ocote) and a company (Agencia Ocote, S.A.).
The Departmental Network of Chiquimultecas Women was founded in 2002, with the union of women from different organizations in the department, in order to raise their voices for women and the protection of their rights; however, it was not brought to legal life until 2005, thanks to the support of the Italian Cooperation.
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