Chajulense Mayan Association (AMACHAJUL) AMACHAJUL is a Guatemalan Mayan Ixil non-profit organization located in Chajul, Guatemala. The Ixil region is a post-conflict community that suffered an ethical cleansing during the 36-year internal armed conflict. Schools were closed for 36 years. Today there is deep poverty and few opportunities for women and girls to break out of the cycle.
The Riecken Foundation promotes a network of innovative community libraries in Honduras and Guatemala that awaken the spirit of discovery and social participation through activities in the libraries. We have shown that community libraries are essential to a democratic society. Libraries are institutions that citizens use to make informed decisions and reach their full potential. They provide essential knowledge, encourage critical thinking, and encourage self-education and lifelong learning.
We implement holistic development programs through sustainable management of sustainable projects.
We are a non-profit hiking outfitter whose profits go entirely to support EDELAC - a school and home for street children in Xela.
TECHO is an organization present in 19 Latin American countries, which seeks to overcome the situation of poverty that millions of people live in overcrowded and under resourced settlements, through the joint action of its inhabitants and volunteers.
We are a civil organization of indigenous women of the Mayan culture, we support and work in solidarity with rural development, promoting the empowerment and autonomy of women in the various areas of their daily lives.
Our goal is to provide girls and adolescents in rural communities with a safe space to learn about their lives, strengthen their support networks and equip them with life skills.
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.
Odres Nuevos GT is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to support children, adolescents and their families living in poverty and extreme poverty with education, health, entrepreneurship and social assistance programs. The beneficiaries: children and adolescents work in the streets, selling products or shining shoes and by incorporating them into the different programs provided, it is possible to initiate a process of personal, family and community change, aiming to transform their future.
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.
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: