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.
Peronia Adolescente is an association legally constituted in 2004, working for a fairer reality for Guatemala. It facilitates spaces of integral formation, using games, art and alternative sports, promoting leadership and volunteering of adolescents and young people of scarce resources who are vulnerable in Ciudad Peronia.
DiverArte Guatemala is a private, non-profit, apolitical, social-type Civil Association that promotes processes of artistic awareness, from the opening of spaces for the defense and promotion of human rights, with the purpose of contributing to the eradication of contexts of stigma and discrimination that are derived from behaviors of violence directed towards Guatemalan children, adolescents and youth.
We are a community of missionaries serving and living in low-income communities.
MuJER is a feminist, community-based organization that works with and for women sex workers, migrant women, and survivors of violence against women through its programs that include development and access to classes, workshops, and Education and Training courses; taught with a popular education methodology, as an Empowerment tool for women with a human rights approach.
Our organization educates and supports vulnerable adolescents without family resources, who live in government institutions. We provide academic and occupational opportunities to prevent risk behaviors.
Colectiva Las Ninas de Guatemala is a feminist collective led by artists who use art as a tool for social change.
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.
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.