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.
Since 1996, Cooperative for Education has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. Our sustainable textbook, computer, reading, and youth development programs have transformed the lives of more than a quarter million students. We empower rural Guatemalan communities to transform their own quality of education, with a focus on evening the playing field for girls, who are typically excluded from education.
Enseña por Guatemala's theory of change is driven by the urgency of our mission to address educational inequity in the short term and building a network of inspired and empowered leaders dedicated to co-creating long-term solutions to address Guatemala's biggest needs. We recruit community leaders and professionals from diverse backgrounds and careers (including teachers and professionals from other fields) to teach full-time in classrooms in vulnerable areas of Guatemala for a period of two years.
Asociación Alas de Guatemala (WINGS Guatemala) is a non-profit organization that provides quality reproductive health education and services to underserved, primarily rural Guatemalan youth, women, and men.
Tierra Nueva is a non-governmental organization that operates in the Western Highlands area of Guatemala; it develops programs and projects focused on providing support to children, adolescents, youth and women, seeking that these age groups have the opportunities and resources necessary to achieve a comprehensive development. Tierra Nueva is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan, non-religious, non-religious, development and service organization, with gender equity and multicultural approach.
PODER Y LUZ MAYA ONG, was formally constituted in 2020 and is defined as a non-profit NGO that works for the protection of the environment, public health and economic development in communities, through education and distribution of appropriate and renewable technologies throughout Guatemala.
We are a mixed, interdisciplinary team committed to transforming the unequal reality of Guatemala; a team committed to artivism and digital media as tools to achieve it. Artivism as a recovery of artistic action for immediate social intervention; and digital media as a resource that has caused profound changes in the production of content and democratization of information and communication channels; giving rise to digital activism, community journalism and linking digital media with social collectives generating powerful and comprehensive alliances throughout Latin America.
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:
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.
New Sun Road Guatemala (NSR), is a corporation founded in 2019 that actively works in indigenous communities implementing Digital Community Centers (DCC), which have been funded by USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative, USAID-MujerProspera and Microsoft. The Digital Community Centers generate economic opportunities for indigenous women by providing access to solar electricity, internet connectivity and training programs in digital, financial and leadership skills.
Partner for Surgery serves with the goal to improve health, empower communities, and overcome barriers. We are on the front lines of medical and surgical care in rural Guatemala focusing on bringing quality health care and surgical solutions to where most impoverished Guatemalans live. Our service model allows us to bridge language, distance, and cultural barriers. And our health promoters, staff, volunteers, and donors all partner to ensure our programs secure the solution each patient needs, from the time we meet them in their communities until we return home with them after surgery.
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.
Educo is a global development cooperation NGO that has been working for more than 25 years in favor of children and in defense of their rights. We work through social projects in which more than 550,000 children and 150,000 adults participate. In Guatemala, we are present in the departments of Quiché, Huehuetenango and Totonicapán. The projection of our coverage area includes the western highlands of Guatemala, in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango and Sololá.
CARE works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. It is a leading global organization with more than 75 years of experience that puts women and girls at the center because it recognizes that poverty cannot be overcome until all people have equal rights and opportunities.
We support teachers for 2 preschool programs in Guatemala:Pequeños Pero Listos and Aula Magica.
LuzAgro is a Guatemalan foundation that was created in 2020 in order to improve the quality of life of families and agricultural communities through reliable programs and tools that will promote their development.
Food for the Hungry / Fundación Contra el Hambre is an international non-profit organization that works with the objective of facilitating holistic transformation in 215 communities in Guatemala. We work together with families to build self-sustainable communities in the departments of Alta Verapaz, Quiché and Huehuetenango, focused on ending chronic childhood malnutrition.
We are a secular organization with 501(3) status in the United States that works with a legal partner in Guatemala, "Fundacion Par el Desarrollo Comunal" de Huetenenango. We achieve our mission primarily through the management of two quality sustainable schools, teaching aid to outlying villages, an educational farm, and multi-village agricultural training programs.
Trama Textiles is an association of artisan women backstrap loom weavers in Guatemala. We work directly with 400 women from 17 weaving cooperations across 5 regions in the western highlands of Guatemala; Sololá, Huehuetenango, Sacatepéquez, Quetzaltenango and Quiché.
We are a non-profit hiking outfitter whose profits go entirely to support EDELAC - a school and home for street children in Xela.
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