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.
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.
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.
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: