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The following excerpt is from an article published by the Rainforest Alliance. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. For Manfredo Lippman, whose family has owned Finca Ona since 1966, coffee farming is as much about people and the environment as it is about growing the aromatic bean. His estate farm in northwest Guatemala provides employment, education and basic healthcare to hundreds of families, whereas the streams that run through it supply drinking …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 26, 2010 article by The Abundance Farming Project (AFP), and hosted by Google News. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY — Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk. “There is already evidence of important changes” said Nestor Osorio, head of the …complete post In the past decade, nearly 4,000 women and young girls have been murdered in Guatemala. Many of them, including girls as young as 10, were tortured and raped, their bodies left in public places. As a result, women have coined the term “femicide” to describe these widespread, gender-based killings committed with impunity. Of the 383 women’s murder cases in 2003, more than 300 are still awaiting results from police investigations today. In response to the murders, …complete post Adopt-a-Village (AAV) in Guatemala is a small, grassroots non-profit that works with remote villages in the rugged Northwestern Highlands region. This is an area of extreme poverty with few public services or other forms of assistance. AAV partners with leaders of these Mayan villages to build a more promising and sustainable future for their children by providing education and other critical support. The goal of Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala is to empower through education. Less than …complete post Faith In Action (FIA) is a 501(c)(3) Christian organization designed to target isolated, remote people who have become lost and stagnant within their developing country. They primarily focus on mountainous highlands and the swampy waterways of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, Central America. Faith in Action takes the Good News into communities that have no church and have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. For the people in these extremely remote villages they construct safe houses, …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 25, 2010 article pubished by The Guatemala Times. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala – The green Gold of Guatemala is Cardamom. 23,000 tones of cardamom are cultivated in Guatemala annually. This makes Guatemala the world’s largest exporter. Guatemala’s cardamom production sets the prices in the global market. When the production of Cardamom decreases in Guatemala, the prices on the international markets go up. Guatemala …complete post here is an account of countries around the world with educational shortcomings. Guatemala is on the list of countries where over 30% of young adults have fewer than four years of education. I encourage everyone to skim the article as it’s really quite eye opening. I think some of the solutions discussed in the article would be a good start, but I question how well they would solve the root causes of a struggling …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 25, 2010 article published by The Wall Street Journal Online. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY (Dow Jones)–Harvesting of Guatemala’s current 2009-10 coffee crop continues at slow pace and weather problems are making a recovery more difficult, Guatemala’s National Coffee Association, or Anacafe, said Thursday. “We are still sticking to our last forecast, but the harvest in the eastern coffee producing regions has not …complete post The Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality and availability of health care in Guatemala through education, surgery, and therapy. Specializing in the treatment of congenital and hand injuries, they aim to reach Guatemalan children and adults through medical missions led by a team of specialized and skilled surgeons, therapists, and volunteers. GHHF offers physicians, therapists, nurses, students, and volunteers the opportunity to take part in a cross cultural …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 24, 2010 article published by Today Online. Click here to read the article in its entirety. Some 1,700 years ago, the great Mayan civilisation chose this country in Central America to set up their most impressive structures – it was on these sacred grounds that their priests would ascend the steps to speak to the gods. Today, Guatemala continues to draw the awe of travellers to the country with …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 24, 2010 article published by The Latin American Herald Tribune. Click here to read the article in its entirety. GUATEMALA CITY – Thousands of teachers from all of Guatemala’s 22 provinces occupied the capital’s Constitution Square on Wednesday to press the government for a 16 percent pay raise. While union official Rumulado Maldonado told Efe that some 70,000 teachers were taking part, the number in Constitution Square was closer to …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 24, 2010 article published by 7 News Belize. Click here to read the article in its entirety. The Belize National Teachers Union held a Council of Management meeting today – but at news time – we were unable to find out from the union what is the decision going forward. But in Guatemala, those teachers aren’t playing. Thousands of them have shut down all major roadways demanding a 16% …complete post The following article is an excerpt from the Vancouver Sun on February 22, 2010. To read the article in full, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan indigenous Maya people held religious and cultural ceremonies Monday to mark the start of the year 5126 under the ancient Mayan calendar. Culture Minister Emilio Ajquejay said that under the Mayan calendar, 5126 marks Kej, year of the stag or deer. The four-legged creature symbolizes four cosmic points of strength and …complete post Quality education, healthcare, and family development for the region’s poorest children Known for its beauty, culture, and history, the Panchoy Valley also has its marginal zones where homeless families and street children live. In these areas the unemployment rate is high, adolescents lack education, crime is prevalent, alcoholism is rampant, and familial violence is widespread. Taking these problems into mind, the idea of opening a specialized technical school amidst the Victorias, Bella Vista, and Papalillo neighborhoods …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 22, 2010 article published in the Los Angeles Times. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SG Biofuels on Monday revealed a proprietary variety of the jatropha curcas plant that the Encinitas-based company said will yield more oil at a more profitable rate. The newly launched JMax 100 has traits that make it optimal for harvesting in Guatemala, said the company, which also said it will produce …complete post The Valhalla Project is a Guatemala based organization that seeks to reverse global warming, assist indigenous people in developing self-sustaining agriculture, and educate the public about the environment. They accomplish this mission by planting trees. The Valhalla project introduces ungrafted Macadamia seedlings to indigenous people as an alternative to slash and burn agriculture, which contributes to global warming. Global reforestation of open genetic macadamia nut trees; MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women’s organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education and other human rights. They provide resources and training to enable their sister organizations to meet these goals by addressing immediate needs in their communities and developing long-term solutions to the crises they face. In Guatemala, MADRE is involved in these projects: Farming for the Future Indigenous Ixil …complete post To our bilingual friends…we have a volunteer opportunity that you can do from your couch! As you know, our blog currently profiles grassroots groups working on the ground in Guatemala. Eventually, our blog will be bilingual. Until then, we don’t want to miss out on the many groups that have websites only in Spanish. We are looking for a bilingual individual who can post profiles of Spanish speaking charities in English on our blog. If you are interested, please …complete post Teaching children to dream is the first step in their believing in a future. Fotokids was founded by ex-Reuters photographer, Nancy McGirr in 1991, with 6 children from the City’s vast garbage dump. Over the years, the organization has grown to include both rural poor and urban gang areas. Fotokids, including an environmental photo project in Honduras, now serves130 children from 6 distinct communities. Students are given educational scholarships covering primary school through university. The mission of The Aid & Education Project is to promote education in indigenous communities in Guatemala. Their primary program for promoting education in Guatemala is to offer scholarships to deserving students. They also have programs to promote computer literacy, to teach English, and to preserve the local culture. Additionally, there are special programs for women and girls. Street children stay alive by their wits – stealing and scavenging, begging and sleeping rough in parks, shop doorways and on dumps. These children have little or no access to education, care, food, shelter and their other rights. Many are drawn into a world of drugs or the sex trade. In some areas, they are known as the ‘disponibles’ – the disposable ones. Statistics vary widely but the United Nations estimates there could be as …complete post The following excerpt is from a February 18, 2010 article published by AudubonMagazine.org. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Last week, I returned from a Guatemalan birding extravaganza, the likes of which I’ve never before experienced, with four solid days—5 a.m. starts, sporadic meals, hours of fantastic bird watching—in a country smaller than the state of Tennessee. I personally saw 102 different species, 83 I’d never encountered, and at least a dozen …complete post |
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