Niños de Guatemala operates three schools outside of Antigua, Guatemala helping over 500 children from low-income families a year. With our partnerships in the Netherlands, the United States, France, and volunteers from all over the world, we help provide innovative education and support to families. Niños de Guatemala core educational program 'Skills for Success' gives the children the tools they need to succeed in school and in life.
StoveTeam International promotes the placement of low-smoke, fuel-efficient, and safe cookstoves in collaboration with local communities to support families and protect the environment.
Yabal Guatemala is a Fair Trade organization, focused on sustainable fashion, that supports indigenous women’s weaving cooperatives in Guatemala, providing them with the opportunity to sell their hand-woven products through local and international markets.
Circula: Centro de Liderazgo Restaurativo (formerly Asociación para el Liderazgo en Guatemala) works to facilitate the transformation of leaders willing to grow personally and professionally in order to increase their impact in Central America, promoting a culture of learning in a creative retreat space that facilitates reflection and collaboration between leaders.
We are a professional consultant service with a holistic approach to human beings.
We are a civil, non-profit organization made up of multidisciplinary professionals and merchants that works together with the rural population in search of comprehensive human development through comprehensive development and social assistance projects.
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.
WWG is an organization that promotes the economic empowerment of women in Guatemala through entrepreneurial training programs. It also contributes to economic reactivation through alliances with different actors in the ecosystem. Since 2019 we have worked with more than 1,400 female entrepreneurs around the country. We promotes leadership, community building and training.
CVG provides a space for articulation, development and promotion of voluntary activity in Guatemala. We bring together several institutions committed to volunteering, as a service to the communities and the development of the country from their own vocations and resources. We have been working in Guatemala since 2006 and we focus our activities on the formation of a Network of volunteer organizations and on the promotion of the national voluntary movement, through different activities.
ASCATED, is a civil society association that has been dedicated for 30 years in Guatemala to promote the rights of people with disabilities, currently executes its actions through 3 programs including inclusive community development, inclusive education and labor inclusion and entrepreneurship, its 3 programs are aimed at improving the quality of life of people with disabilities, developing strategic lines of action such as education and training, research, development of educational materials, legislation and policies among others.
ROMPIENDO LÍMITES -ASORO- was born from the initiative of people with and without disabilities, who joined forces to work with people with disabilities and their families, working in the department of Chiquimula, specifically in the municipalities of Jocotán, Camotán, Olopa and San Juan Ermita, which belong to the Chortí region and are located within the area recognized as the "Dry Corridor", as well as in Chiquimula, the capital.
VIDE is a non-profit civil association founded in 2021 by professionals committed to the development of Guatemala and Central America. With a focus on generating a positive and significant impact on the lives of people and communities, we are inspired by new approaches to education, gender equity and sustainable development. Guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, we aspire to build an equitable and sustainable future with people and communities.
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.
We are a non-profit association who work with a human rights based approach facilitating processes for the inclusion of people with disabilities, focusing primarily on women with visual and hearing impairments in the areas of education, health, social, economic empowerment and advocacy. We are using the community-based Inclusive Development strategy. We have been legally constituted in 2017 and our territorial coverage are in the departments of Sololá and Quiche.
We are a non-profit organization that works with programs and projects for the benefit of Guatemalan children and youth. The areas we work in are education, health, nutrition, recreation and environment.
ACD Guatemala (Asociación para la creatividad y el desarrollo de Guatemala) is a non-profit organization operating in Western Guatemala. Our mission is to serve children and families exposed to vulnerable conditions, violence and irregular migration in rural and complex areas of Guatemala. Our headquarters are located in Quetzaltenango.
We focus on education, development, medical and spiritual care, helping children and adolescents engage in life purpose, healthy relationships and participation to experience community growth.
At the Connected Cities Foundation, we promote projects, initiatives and communication campaigns through mass, outdoor and digital media that promote, through the generation of multi-sector alliances, a transformation that promotes the construction of a better Guatemala. We do this through the generation of multisectoral alliances and communication campaigns in mass, outdoor and digital media.
The Ak' Tenamit Association is a grassroots indigenous organization with more than 30 years of experience promoting training processes for decent employment. It has 1,036 rural indigenous interns taking Basic and Expert courses under a work-based learning methodology.
The Manos Unidas Cooperative was organized as a result of a diploma course on youth entrepreneurship given by the Bárbara Ford Peace Center during 2013 - 2014. After the diploma course, the cooperative was founded and legalized on April 29, 2015. It has 61 members who have 11 apiaries (33 hives) which are located in the municipalities of Cotzal, Nebaj, Cunen, Santa Cruz del Quiché, Chinique and Canilla, mainly engaged in the production of honey, pollen and propolis eminently (organic / natural).
The Departmental Network of Chiquimultecas Women was founded in 2002, with the union of women from different organizations in the department, in order to raise their voices for women and the protection of their rights; however, it was not brought to legal life until 2005, thanks to the support of the Italian Cooperation.