Partnership in Women’s Ministries (PWM) is a partnership of ministries serving abused and abandoned women in Guatemala. This partnership comes to fill a huge void in Guatemala, where women lack total control of their lives, and are powerlessly subjected to lives of misery. These women, who are lacking resources and education, are desperately trying to survive and provide for their families. [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Profile: Partnership in Women’s Ministries
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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Partnership in Women’s Ministries (PWM) is a partnership of ministries serving abused and abandoned women in Guatemala. This partnership comes to fill a huge void in Guatemala, where women lack total control of their lives, and are powerlessly subjected to lives of misery. These women, who are lacking resources and education, are desperately trying to survive and provide for their families. [...]
Profile: Gesundheit!
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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The Gesundheit Institute began as a group of twenty friends, including three doctors, who moved into a six-bedroom home and called it a free hospital. The hospital was open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for all manner of medical problems from birth to death. 500-1000 patients were seen each month, with [...]
Article: Guatemala: A guide for Beginners
Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a March 21, 2010 article published by the Telegraph UK. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Chris Moss offers a guide to Guatemala, ahead of this year’s celebrations to mark the bicentenary of Latin America’s fight for independence. Guatemala was once a major block of New [...]
Article: Google to Add Maya, Nahuatl Languages to Search Engine
Posted by Laura on March 19, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a March 19, 2010 article published by The Economic Times. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. MEXICO CITY: Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages — Maya and Nahuatl — to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday. Searches in these [...]
Profile: De Casas a Hogares (From Houses to Homes)
Posted by Laura on March 19, 2010
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From Houses to Homes (FHTH) aims to strengthen community harmony in highland Guatemala by building lasting, healthy homes, improving access to health care and education, and inspiring participation between the poor and civil society. From Houses to Homes is a New Jersey-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in September 2004 to build homes and improve the [...]
Urgent Need: Cleft Baby *UPDATED*
Posted by Laura on March 17, 2010
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Our friends at Casa de Sion have seen a baby today who needs some help. I believe that the family is in Solola, but we will have to confirm that with Vicki. Please read their report, and email Vicki at the address below, or click on the “Leave a Comment” link below, if you have [...]
Profile: Hope Through Healing Hands
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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Hope Through Healing Hands is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 whose mission is to promote improved quality of life for citizens and communities around the world using health as a currency for peace. Through the prism of health diplomacy, they envision a world where all individuals and families can obtain access to a skilled, motivated, and supported [...]
Article: Archaeologists – Maya Blue Pigment Recipe Moved Around
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a March 16, 2010 article published by USA Today.com. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. An archaeologist reports the ingredients of ”Maya Blue” pigment beloved by Central America’s ancients may have been widely mined, not traded as previously suggested. In the Journal of Archeological Science report, Leslie [...]
Profile: Pan en la Boca
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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Pan En La Boca is a not-for-profit corporation that was organized to help provide necessities and services to the people of Latin America who live in poverty. It is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Through its recent endeavors, various groups in Guatemala have received food, clothing, medical care and housing. All of the people who currently [...]
Profile: Safe Homes for Children
Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010
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Safe Homes for Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation set up to support Casa de Sion, an orphanage in Los Robles near Panajachel. On 17 acres of farmland, they have a 2500 sq. ft. building that is used for their orphanage. They take street children as well as children whose parents cannot afford to feed or [...]
Profile: Comunidad Nueva Alianza
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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Comunidad Nueva Alianza is an organic coffee and macadamia plantation owned and operated by a cooperative of forty Guatemalan families, located in a sub-tropical area 1000 meters above sea level 45 minutes north of the coastal town of Retalhuleu. The community is nestled amongst a 300 acre plantation of organic coffee and macadamia trees where [...]
Profile: Only A Child
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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Only A Child maintains a shelter and a carpentry shop for former street youth in Guatemala City, but the shelter is far more than just a place to sleep. The shelter provides its residents with a genuine home and a surrogate family in which the kids are taught accountability and responsibility. They must contribute time [...]
Article: Shrimp And Lobster Disappearing Fast
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a March 11, 2010 article published by Red Orbit. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Central American shrimp and lobster populations are being threatened by illegal fishing and climate change, experts said on Thursday. The decline of such species is a huge impact on the two-billion-dollar-a-year [...]
Profile: The MAR Fund
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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The Mesoamerican Reef Fund (MAR Fund) is a non-profit corporation created by four environmental funds from México, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, as a financial mechanism for conservation and adequate resource use in the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion. This new conservation finance mechanism is unique in that it is the first environmental fund in the Western Hemisphere [...]
Profile: Long Way Home
Posted by Laura on March 15, 2010
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Long Way Home’s (LWH) mission as a 501(c)(3) is to break the cycle of poverty among youth in developing communities by creating educational opportunities, cultivating civic interaction, and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Education, Employment, and Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: The intergenerational benefits of the opportunities provided by education have broken the cycle of dependency and [...]
Article: At Least 130 Minors Killed in Guatemala Thus Far in 2010
Posted by Laura on March 14, 2010
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The following excerpt is from a March 14, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – At least 130 children and adolescents have been killed in Guatemala thus far this year, a news agency that covers that segment of the population [...]
Profile: Proyecto Payaso
Posted by Laura on March 14, 2010
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The Asociación Payasos Atz’anem K’oj (“The Clowns”) gathers, trains and resources groups of youth peer educators and people living with HIV in sexual and reproductive health. These groups carry out the Clowns’ communication projects in sexual health, HIV and Aids and STIs to vulnerable populations (in rural indigenous areas, prisons, borders and ports, and others) [...]
Profile: Open Windows
Posted by Laura on March 13, 2010
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Open Windows is a dynamic children’s educational center (library, computer center, and more) in the town of San Miguel Dueñas, ten miles (15km) from Antigua, Guatemala’s famous Spanish colonial city. Open Windows Foundation is a US non-governmental organization (NGO) that currently provides 1,000 children in the community with important educational services and programs to help [...]