Creamos was initiated in 2008 as a social entrepreneurship initiative for 20 women who had historically relied on collecting, recycling, reusing and reselling items scavenged in the garbage dump, in addition to other forms of risky work, to make a living. In the years since, the organization’s offerings have expanded dramatically to include both a robust emotional support program and an accredited adult education program in addition to safe and sustainable income-generating opportunities.
Friendship Bridge’s history began with its work in Vietnam providing medical education and shipping medical supplies to impoverished populations in war-ravaged areas. While medical supplies were positively impacting the lives of recipients, Friendship Bridge was looking for a more sustainable solution to poverty reduction — the solution was microcredit. In 1994, we shifted our focus from medical supplies to microcredit and began offering small loans to impoverished women.
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.
Lan Vwa began when our founder went to Haiti to help deliver aid after an earthquake and became involved in educational efforts. Our name translates to “the voice” in Haitian Creole, reflecting our efforts to return what poverty has stolen from citizens of developing areas - their voice. As Lan Vwa grew, successful programs have been implemented in Haiti and Guatemala. By connecting communities to educational access and tools, we hope to continue empowering our students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Safe Passage works to bring hope, education, and opportunity to the children and families trying to make a living around the city’s garbage dump - one of the largest landfills in Central America.
Refuge International is a US-based non-profit organization focused on improving lives in rural communities by improving access to healthcare, education, nutrition and clean water, and also provides opportunities for mentoring of students who wish to become involved in humanitarian efforts.
Doulos Foundation promotes educational and cultural development to benefit the most excluded communities and groups in Guatemala.
littleGIANTS is a non profit organization, operating in the field of education and community building, that provides the tools to empower children and youth (4-18 years old) from distressed neighborhoods and their communities to unchain their dreams, unleash their potential, thrive and create lasting change in their communities. We achieve this through our integral after school learning experience which explores the uniqueness of each child and develops personal life skills that will lead to social transformation and children will act as agents of change for their communities.
Acción Humana NGO was born from the commitment of a group of young entrepreneurs who believe that human beings, through their will, can be responsible and participate in achieving their own goals and objectives, but that in most cases they do not have the economic tools or the opportunities to access educational programs that facilitate the processes of starting ideas, developing skills, acquiring knowledge and much less creating the necessary networking to make their own dreams come true.
For over 36 years, Potter's House has walked alongside individuals, families and communities living in poverty and extreme poverty to develop long-term relationships and provide opportunities for holistic development through our 5 programs: Family Development, Education, Health and Nutrition, Microenterprise and Community Development.
From physical and mental transformation to spiritual transformation, we want to empower people in poverty throughout Guatemala and make significant changes in their lives and communities.
Guatemala Youth Initiative (GYI) serves the youth in the marginalized communities that surround the landfill in Guatemala City, offering education and services so that they can achieve their goals. GYI offers three programs: comprehensive sexual education, free access to modern contraceptive methods, and empowerment for young mothers.
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 an organization formed by activists for the rights of children, adolescents and youth, with recognized trajectory and experience. We are a multidisciplinary organization with gender equity. We are an association that works with and for children, with a focus on girls and gender equity.
Non-profit association, with more than 20 years of work in Guatemala through the Futuro Vivo project, which seeks to provide tools and opportunities for a better future to families in extreme poverty in zone 16 of Guatemala City and in Samac Cobán, Alta Verapaz. A project strengthened by the spirituality of the Carmelite Sisters of the Teaching Missionaries, which provides quality education, food, health, community development, productive workshops, literacy to the families that are part of the project.
CuéntaNos is an interactive platform that contributes to empowerment through access to information on different types of direct care provided by different governmental and civil society entities that make up a network. People in need of care can make decisions and obtain support tools. We contribute to the emotional recovery of people in crisis, through psychosocial care via chat.
Partner for Surgery serves with the goal of transforming lives through medical care.
PENNAT We are an organization that fights for the rights and welfare of Guatemalan children and holds the State responsible for guaranteeing their protection.
We promote an alternative education that responds to the expectations, needs, interests and rights of working children in the markets, streets, avenues and parks of the metropolitan area and some municipalities in the department of Guatemala.
UPAVIM is a cooperative association of more than 75 members, with more than 70 members working as seamstresses and making handicrafts. UPAVIM also provides employment for women in the community as teachers, administrators, cooks, cleaners, secretaries, accountants, nurses and bakers. Our online store, UPAVIM Crafts is the heart of UPAVIM. UPAVIM Crafts exports beautiful gifts and fair trade crafts around the world and financially supports the Montessori Children's Center and K-6 Montessori School.
FUNDAECO is a Guatemalan organization established in 1990 and dedicated to nature conservation and the promotion of sustainable community development. In a context of high vulnerability to climate change, we seek to protect natural ecosystems and the environmental services they provide, as well as to promote the sustainable development of poor and vulnerable communities in regions of high biodiversity.
We are a non-governmental organization that mobilizes youth and communities to address the root causes and consequences of poverty, violence and forced migration. We build partnerships with government, the private sector, and civil society to act in support of the community. We build on existing strengths and provide high-impact resources and sustainable solutions through: