Horizons of Friendship is a federally-registered non-governmental organization, located in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. They are committed to eliminating the root causes of poverty and injustice in Central America and Southern Mexico (Mesoamerica) through the cooperation of people from the South and North. To accomplish this they work with local partner organizations that undertake local initiatives [...]
Category Archives: Non Guatemalan Orgs
Profile: Pop Wuj Medical Spanish Program
Posted by Laura on August 26, 2010
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Since June 2002, Pop Wuj has offered a Medical Spanish Program for medical students, providers, public health professionals, and other healthcare practitioners (e.g., doctors, nurses, paramedics, midwifery, and physical therapists). For years they have attracted a growing number of healthcare students and professionals who would like to learn Medical Spanish. The Medical Spanish Program provides [...]
Profile: Foundation for the Higher Good
Posted by Laura on August 24, 2010
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The Foundation for the Higher Good (FHG) is a fund-raising advocate for results-oriented charities that directly impact people’s lives. From alleviating hunger, disease and physical abuse to facilitating education, home-building and nurse training , they focus their efforts on helping to make a difference in the lives of children. Guatemala Project: FHG has been providing funding and [...]
Profile: Frontline SMS – Medic
Posted by Laura on August 10, 2010
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A lack of communication can be a major barrier for grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries. FrontlineSMS is the first text messaging system created exclusively with this problem in mind. By leveraging basic tools already available to most NGOs — computers and mobile phones — FrontlineSMS enables instantaneous two-way communication on a large [...]
Profile: Casa Shalom
Posted by Laura on August 4, 2010
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Casa Shalom, a Christian home for children in San Lucas, Sacatepéquez is offering help to the truly helpless. Started in 1987 by Dr. Rick and Janice Waldrop, Casa Shalom was birthed out of a vision of an orphanage that provided a home, food and education with the love of God enveloping in all aspects of their [...]
Profile: Mayan Hope
Posted by Laura on July 24, 2010
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Mayan Hope is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing educational, nutritional, medical, ecological, and other needed services to indigenous families, villages, and abandoned or abused children of Guatemala and other Latin American nations. They are a direct and hands-on charitable organization meaning that, as such, they work in close cooperation and side-by-side with the people [...]
Profile: Ties To The World
Posted by Laura on July 23, 2010
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Ties to the World (“TTTW”) is a 501 (c)(3) not for profit organization founded in Northern California, by Ibis Schlesinger in November 2006. Their goal is to promote self-sustainable orphanages in Latin America and worldwide thus breaking the cycle of their dependence on charity. Ties to the World wants abandoned children to have the tools [...]
Profile: Rotary Club of Ft. Collins Dengue Program
Posted by Laura on July 19, 2010
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Since 2005, the Rotary Club of Ft Collins, CO has been working with Rotary clubs in Guatemala on Dengue education and prevention programs. Dengue disease is caused by a virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes resulting in thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths each year in Guatemala. Unfortunately, there is no treatment or vaccine [...]
Profile: Enfoque Ixcan
Posted by Laura on July 8, 2010
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Enfoque Ixcán, founded by Dr. Scott Pike, is a non-profit organization which provides eye care to a remote jungle region of Guatemala. Dr. Pike is a professor at Pacific University College of Optometry. Their program is unique in that they train, equip and otherwise enable local eye health promoters to provide eye care so that [...]
Article: Stanford Students Bring Much-Needed Health Care to Rural Guatemala
Posted by Laura on July 2, 2010
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The following excerpt and video is from a June 30, 2010 blog article posted in the Stanford University News. It details the experiences of a team of medical students, led by Dr. Paul Wise, on an annual trip to San Lucas Tolimán. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. For more than [...]
Profile: Heartbeat International
Posted by Laura on June 23, 2010
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Heartbeat International is devoted to saving lives globally by providing cardiovascular implantable devices and treatment to the needy people of the world. Heartbeat international is proud of the history and lineage whereby one person’s compassion for his fellow countryman ignited a chain of events that is now taking the form of a global movement. Twenty-five years [...]
Profile: Convoy of Hope
Posted by Laura on June 22, 2010
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Convoy of Hope provides help and hope to people in need in the United States and around the world by providing food, clean water and supplies. To do that, they hold community outreaches, rendered aid to disaster victims, and implemented sustainability and nutrition programs in more than 120 countries. Each year in the United States [...]
Profile: Curamericas Global, Inc.
Posted by Laura on June 22, 2010
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Curamericas Global partners with underserved communities to make measurable and sustainable improvements in their health and wellbeing. Since 1983, they have been working to reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in regions that lack basic health services. They also organize short-term volunteer trips to their project sites in Guatemala, Bolivia, Haiti and Liberia, where [...]
Profile: Guatemala Aid Fund
Posted by Laura on June 21, 2010
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Guatemala Aid Fund (GAF) began 10 years ago when Bethany Eisenberg Zeeb, an adoptive mother of two Guatemalan-born children, decided to stop exchanging expensive Christmas gifts and instead began collecting necessities such as medical supplies to help Hermano Pedro Orphanage/Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala. What started out as one family’s effort in giving back, turned into the Guatemala [...]
Profile: Friends of WFP / WFP-USA
Posted by Laura on June 20, 2010
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WFP-USA (formerly Friends of WFP) is a U.S.-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focuses on building support in the United States for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and other hunger relief operations. WFP-USA unites organizations and individuals committed to solving world hunger. Their education, advocacy and fundraising efforts in the United States support WFP’s life-saving global [...]
Profile: MAP International
Posted by Laura on June 18, 2010
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MAP International envisions a world in which individuals, families and communities have the hope and capacity to build conditions that promote Total Health. They promote the Total Health of people living in the world’s poorest communities by partnering to provide essential medicine, promote community health development, and prevent and mitigate disease, disaster and other health [...]
Profile: CHOICE Humanitarian
Posted by Laura on June 15, 2010
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CHOICE Humanitarian is ending poverty by focusing on sustainable village development. Our goal is to connect motivated villages to resources and tools to change their lives. By building skills, capacities and leadership of the villagers – the entire community brings itself out of the cycle of poverty. CHOICE, which stands for Center for Humanitarian Outreach [...]
Profile: Heart to Heart
Posted by Laura on June 15, 2010
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Heart to Heart International has been creating a healthier world since 1992. Whether they are providing medical education, delivering medical aid to a hospital and clinic, responding to people in crisis or addressing community-health concerns around the world, Heart to Heart has one big goal: Making the world a healthier place to live and work. [...]
Profile: TEACH
Posted by Laura on June 14, 2010
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The mission of TEACH is to actively respond to the schooling needs of children in Mayan communities in Guatemala. The poor of Guatemala struggle every day to provide for their families. Education can bring hope where there now is little. TEACH is committed to equal education for both girls and boys in a country where [...]
Profile: Action Against Hunger
Posted by Laura on June 9, 2010
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Action Against Hunger’s 4,600+ field staff work in over 40 countries to carry out innovative, lifesaving programs in nutrition, food security and livelihoods, and water, sanitation and hygiene. Their programs reach some five million people a year, restoring dignity, self-sufficiency, and independence to vulnerable populations around the world. Action Against Hunger’s nutrition programs treat and [...]
Profile: Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni
Posted by Laura on June 1, 2010
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The Clinica Comunitaria Daniel Comboni (Daniel Comboni Community Clinic) located in Mixco, Guatemala, provides health, dental, and educational services. The clinic reaches out to the large population of indigenous people living in poverty and extreme poverty in Mixco by offering health and dental services for a nominal fee. Education and nutrition programs provide the people [...]
Profile: Transitions – UPDATED
Posted by Laura on May 28, 2010
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UPDATE: Everyone should check out Transitions’ great new website at www.transitionsfoundation.org. Mobilization, health, rehabilitation, education, leadership… The Transitions Foundation is committed to making a difference in the lives of Guatemalans who may otherwise have few opportunities to grow, to learn, and to become literate and productive contributors to their Guatemalan culture. They provide rehabilitation, vocational, [...]
Profile: New Life With Education
Posted by Laura on May 28, 2010
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New Life with Education, a school for children with special abilities, it is located in the village of Santa Maria de Jesus, Guatemala. In January 2000 the school, Nueva Vida, was founded for those with different abilities who were not allowed into public schools. It started in one room with one Guatemalan teacher and eight [...]
Profile: Water for the Americas
Posted by Laura on May 26, 2010
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Water for the Americas is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization founded in 2002 as a publicly supported charity. Their charter is to assist communities in the Americas in evaluating, developing and protecting water resources to ensure safe, sustainable water supplies and improve the living conditions and quality of life for people. They work directly with the [...]
Profile: Guatemala Friends Scholarship Program
Posted by Laura on May 19, 2010
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The Guatemalan Scholarship/Loan Program was founded by members of Guatemala’s small un-programmed Quaker meeting in 1973. Their mission is to provide access to in-country educational and community development opportunities in order to bring choice into the lives of poor Guatemalans and enable them to participate in their country’s growth and development. Over the decades the program [...]