The Observatorio de Eco-Educación / Research Foundation for the Innovation of Eco-Education researches, promotes and transforms education for ecological regeneration in Central America. We design and develop environmental and social sustainability and regeneration curricula for use in preK-12 schools and non-formal community organizations in order to promote and expand education practices and pedagogies related to environmental and social well-being and regeneration.
Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) uses the power of food to heal communities and strengthen economies in times of crisis and beyond. WCK has created a new model for disaster response through its work helping devastated communities recover and establish resilient food systems.
WCK has served more than 40 million meals to people impacted by natural disasters and other crises around the world in countries including The Bahamas, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Venezuela, and the United States.
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.
Asociación EDUSI is a non-profit organization that works in Sacatepequez to change the lives of the most vulnerable people through education, health and economic development.
We are a community of missionaries serving and living in low-income communities.
Lead-Up is a 501c3 registered non profit whose aim is to reduce violence by creating peaceful leaders through workshops with horses. It works principally, though not exclusively, with the young between the ages of 15-24 to provide a compassionate and non-judgemental environment, removed from the violence, abuse and addiction often experienced at home. Lead-Up’s programs have now also led to additionally the implementation of vocational opportunities for participants in its programs through the vocational program as well as actively developing employment initiatives.
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.
Our main objective of supporting women who had suffered physical, psychological and economic abuse, we created a self-sustainable program for selling our products made of 100% recycled material; at the same time that we teach women and teenager girls the art of sewing and tailoring we are helping to protect the environment, empowering working women gaining their own income.
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.
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.
Asociación La Casa is a space that was born during the pandemic and due to the increase in cases of violence and pregnancies in minors, which offers comprehensive health support (emotional, physical and mental), comprehensive health programs in sexuality, development program, nutrition, among other activities to girls and women in Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez.
Association dedicated to the welfare of the inhabitants of the country, for children, youth and people interested in self-improvement and development, the Association for Integral Development Tzanjuyub' (ADIT). Settled as an Association of civil nature, non-profit, whose purposes are eminently scientific and socio-cultural, consisting of young people, women and men. It contributes on its own initiative or when requested, in the facilitation and search for solutions to local, departmental, regional and national problems.
Academia de Salud Integral is a non-profit scientific association that brings together professionals from different areas and disciplines with the aim of promoting mental and integral health through various teaching, research and assistance programs.
One of our fundamental objectives is the promotion of personal, family and social mental health based on an absolute respect for the life and dignity of the person.
We carry out all our academic work based on a defined and solid anthropological criterion with a personalist foundation.
The Last Chance is an organization led by young people, who are dedicated to education and development of socio-environmental projects. In order to contribute to the Guatemalan development.