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.
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.
The Foundation was created in 1996, in the context of the struggle of the survivors of the Rio Negro/Rabinal massacre, to build paths of hope for future generations, especially for the Mayan Achi people.
Conexión is a local Guatemalan NGO, with a Mesoamerican vision. It is the continuity of ICCO Cooperation in Latin America, gathering all the experience and track record that ICCO has worked in recent years in the region. There is documentation that systematizes and supports this transfer from 2010 to 2020.
Conexión's work focuses on rural and indigenous youth and women, economic empowerment and inclusive economic development, sustainable agroforestry systems, climate change adaptation processes and contributing to the fight against gender violence.
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.
Fundación Trece Aguas, a non-profit organization that began operations in 2007. Our actions in the communities are carried out in close coordination and collaboration with community leaders and public institutions. Our main purpose is to contribute to improve the living conditions of 24 communities in the municipality of Senahú, Alta Verapaz. For the development and implementation of our programs we rely on donations from Grupo Secacao, which cover administrative and operating costs and contribute to the execution of projects.
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.
We are a non-profit Guatemalan civil organization, created on March 1, 2010 in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with the purpose of promoting integral community development in rural areas of the country. We have a 100% local work team, dynamic, strengthened and committed to the scope of the development indicators established by the association; with intervention in the municipalities of the departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Quiche.
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.
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
Like many other Latin American countries that share the Pacific and Caribbean coastline, Guatemala is experiencing a crisis of development and overfishing, exacerbated by the lack of opportunities, income alternatives and the scarcity of scientific knowledge about the true state of the different fishery resource populations, mainly chondrichthyans. Faced with this situation, Mundo Azul Foundation has initiated its efforts to generate scientific information that advances the level of knowledge about sharks, rays and other fisheries.
We are a budding community center in the Chaimal Village, San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz. Our small center is constructed with some boards and sheets, with a compacted earth floor, benches made of wood with blocks, a table, and several children, women, and youth from nearby villages who use our space for workshops, storytelling sessions, reading hours, book loans, and some strengthening courses. Our services immediately connect with the communities through programs that promote reading, critical thinking, creativity, and the empowerment of women with cultural relevance.
Mathkind believes that math education creates a more equitable world. Founded in 2014, Mathkind was established to create summer travel opportunities for U.S. teachers to support their peers in developing countries. Since then, we have grown from a small group of committed educators to a global network of researchers and local leaders who collaborate year-round to transform mathematics education through high-quality, community-based programs.
ESAP is an organization that promotes the well-being of vulnerable families, their animals and the environment through the establishment of sustainable, community-driven ecosystems.
A non-profit, non-religious and apolitical organization. It is integrated by people with experience, capacity, mystique and vocation of service in the performance of their functions. Committed to promote the development of capacities and empowerment in integral projects that allow the socio-economic development of rural communities in the country.
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.
Fabretto Children's Foundation's mission is to enable children, youth and their families in the most disadvantaged areas to reach their full potential through innovative and relevant education programs to improve their livelihoods and communities. Fabretto is a 501c3 registered NGO in the United States, and currently implements Education, Nutrition, and Youth Empowerment projects in Honduras and Guatemala in collaboration with seven local NGOs (3 in Guatemala and 4 in Honduras).
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 are a foundation whose nature is private, non-partisan, non-profit, with social projection and humanitarian assistance.
Our vision is to educate the population through training and research on gender, ethics and human rights issues, promoting sustainable empowerment for the youth and women of the Central American region, shortening gender gaps and reducing violence based on in gender.
As a fair trade organization, Sharing the Dream works with more than 20 groups of artisans around Guatemala, helping them to improve and sell their products. We operate an Elder Center in Santiago, where we provide meals, medical care, and care to more than 60 Maya elders. We also provide scholarships to a small group of promising students who must attend tutoring sessions, complete volunteer hours, and participate in reading activities in exchange for their scholarship.
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