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 [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Profile: The Aid and Education Project
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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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 [...]
Profile: Toybox
Posted by Laura on February 22, 2010
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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 [...]
Article: Five Days in Guatemala, 102 Species
Posted by Laura on February 18, 2010
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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 [...]
Article: Program Sees Stillbirths Drop
Posted by Laura on February 18, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a February 18, 2010 article published by CBC News. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The rate of stillbirths in developing countries fell more than 30 per cent after birth attendants received basic training in newborn care, researchers have found. The randomized, controlled trial included 62,366 [...]
Profile: Niños del Lago
Posted by Laura on February 17, 2010
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Niños del Lago is a unique children’s project designed to transform the lives of Guatemala’s most impoverished children. Their goal is to help at-risk children stay in school, and succeed in school. After extensive research, Niños del Lago was founded in 2004 to support and extend the work of privately-funded, not-for-profit educational programs created for [...]
Profile: Orphan Outreach
Posted by Laura on February 17, 2010
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Orphan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to glorifying the Lord through reaching out to the millions of at risk children throughout the world. Since their founding in 2007, they have acted as instruments of Christ impacting the lives of those they serve. Ministering primarily in Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Russia, they support a [...]
Volunteer Opportunity: Safe Passage (Camino Seguro)
Posted by Laura on February 16, 2010
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Help Safe Passage celebrate 10 years of success moving children and families beyond the Guatemala City garbage dump. Safe Passage is in search of 15 – 20 communities around the world that are willing to host a 5K walk/run as their community’s annual fundraiser for Safe Passage. ***Will you host an event?*** Their goal: to have thousands [...]
Profile: Project Seres
Posted by Laura on February 16, 2010
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“THOUGH THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD ARE INCREASINGLY MORE COMPLEX, THE SOLUTIONS REMAIN EMBARRASSINGLY SIMPLE…” – Bill Mollison, co-founder of the world-wide permaculture movement The mission of Project Seres is to help at-risk groups in developing countries build resistance to climate change threats using knowledge, tools and resources that are environmentally ethical, ecologically sustainable, [...]
Profile: The Children's Malnutrition Center of San Juan, Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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The Children’s Malnutrition Center of San Juan, Guatemala provides temporary care to infants and young children who are severely malnourished. The children range in age from infancy to 10 years of age. The children come from homes where they did not receive proper nutrition, primarily due to their parents’ lack of means to provide the [...]
Profile: The Children’s Malnutrition Center of San Juan, Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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The Children’s Malnutrition Center of San Juan, Guatemala provides temporary care to infants and young children who are severely malnourished. The children range in age from infancy to 10 years of age. The children come from homes where they did not receive proper nutrition, primarily due to their parents’ lack of means to provide the [...]
Volunteer Opportunity: Semilla Nueva
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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Semilla Nueva is a growing organization with many possible avenues for involvement. If you think you have something to offer the team, please contact us and let us know! Given that 2010 is our first full year of operation, we are focusing our volunteer recruitment efforts primarily on long-term volunteers willing to spend extended periods [...]
Profile: Global Dental Relief
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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Global Dental Relief brings free dental care to impoverished children of Nepal, northern India, Vietnam and Guatemala in partnership with local organizations. Volunteer dentists, hygienists, assistants and non-medical volunteers deliver treatment and preventive care in dental clinics that serve children in schools, orphanages and remote villages. Travel and logistics for volunteers are coordinated by Global Dental Expeditions, [...]
EU Invests in Sustainable Future for Guatemala
Posted by Jon on February 15, 2010
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Here is an article on recent support of Guatemala by the European Union (EU) to the tune of 33.8 million Euros. “Guatemala City. The EU new initiative supports the five strategic objectives of the Strategic Plan for Food Security and Nutrition (PESAN, Plan Estratégico de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional) from 2009-2012 and will benefit the [...]
Profile: Semilla Nueva
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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Semilla Nueva is an organization unified around a shared vision for an equitable and environmentally responsible society where people live in peace with dignity. Their mission is to help empower agricultural communities in Guatemala by jointly developing and implementing strategies that facilitate the achievement of community-defined objectives for natural resource conservation, economic prosperity, and social [...]
Profile: El Nahual
Posted by Laura on February 15, 2010
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El Nahual Community Center was founded in 2004 in order to address shortcomings in the Guatemalan national education system, particularly in Quetzaltenango and its surrounding communities. El Nahual is located on the outskirts of Quetzaltenango in a sector called Pacajá. This location, which straddles urban and rural areas, was chosen to allow El Nahual to serve as a [...]
Profile: Climb for a Cause
Posted by Laura on February 14, 2010
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…doing well while doing good Climb for a Cause (CFAC) is a non-profit Foundation that combines the breathtaking beauty of the mountains with the desire to make a positive difference in peoples’ lives. Since 1998, they have been making positive and meaningful differences in the lives of needy children and deserving adults around the world. [...]
Article: Good News from Ecoregion Lachua, Guatemala
Posted by Kari on February 13, 2010
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The following article was published in the Guatemala Times on February 13, 2010. By BARBARA SCHIEBER: From the characterization of subsistence hunting to its communitarian management. Applied participative research with Maya-Q´eqchi´ communities in the Ecoregion Lachuá, Guatemala How did it all start: Wildlife hunting for domestic consumption (subsistence hunting) is a very common activity that is part [...]
Article: Spanish Researchers Publish Work on Mayan Pictographs
Posted by Kari on February 13, 2010
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This is excerpted from an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune on February 13, 2010. GUATEMALA CITY – Spanish researchers from Valencia University presented in Guatemala a book analyzing the meaning of drawings and incisions on a Mayan architectural decoration in the form of a mask dating back to between 300 and 600 A.D. The [...]
Article: Construction of US$12bn Technological Corridor to Begin in June – Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 12, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a February 12, 2010 article published by Business News Americas. To read the entire article please click here. Guatemala’s US$12bn technological corridor project (CTG) to link ports on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will get underway in June this year, northeastern municipalities’ association head Álvaro Olavarrueth told BNamericas. The corridor [...]
Profile: Niños de Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 12, 2010
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Niños de Guatemala (NDG) was founded in 2006 to play a part in building a better future for Guatemala and its citizens. NDG aims to realize its mission by initiating and supporting small-scale development projects where they are most needed. Local involvement and community development are central to NDG’s projects. NDG runs by three [...]
Article: New Guatemalan Law Would Spur Local Community Radio Development
Posted by Laura on February 11, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a February 11, 2010 article published by America’s Quarterly. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. On a smoggy Thursday afternoon in late January, Mark Camp, director for U.S.-based Cultural Survival Project, drives a big red truck with Massachusetts plates through Guatemala City traffic toward Congress. Camp—who [...]
Article: Ensemble Lipzodes Resurrects 500-year-old Music from Guatemala
Posted by Laura on February 10, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a February 10, 2010 article published in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala and Renaissance music do not go together in many people’s minds. Nevertheless, Ensemble Lipzodes will explore that correlation at their concert Saturday, presented by Early Music Now. [...]
Volunteer Opportunity: As Green As It Gets
Posted by Laura on February 10, 2010
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Short term construction projects for groups and individuals: As Green As It Gets has a need for short term construction teams or individual workers. They have many projects right now that can use general laborers, mason workers, metal workers and welders, or trainable folks who will get their hands dirty. Projects range from 3 days [...]
Profile: MY2K Blog
Posted by Kari on February 9, 2010
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We’ve all heard the dire prediction: 2012, the end of the Mayan calender also signifies the end of the world. When there’s a movie about it with John Cusack, you know it’s getting serious. The MY2K blog takes a closer look at the symbols that make up the calendar (known as ‘glyphs’) and the meanings [...]