Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. Using a unique combination of interest-free microfinance loans, mentoring from established designers, as well as a market in which to sell their crafts, Nest helps its loan recipients create successful small businesses. Nest instills pride of ownership, preserves ancient artistic traditions [...]
Category Archives: Non Guatemalan Orgs
Profile: ConstruCasa
Posted by Laura on May 17, 2010
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ConstruCasa is a non-profit organization offering basic housing to families living in extreme poverty. ConstruCasa always works in collaboration with local social organizations to identify families of exceptional need. Beneficiary families participate in the construction of their home and also pay back one fourth of the total cost of their house over four years. ConstruCasa [...]
Profile: Friends of the Deaf / LAVOSI
Posted by Laura on May 13, 2010
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The Friends of the Deaf, officially known as the Friends of People with Auditory Deficiencies, a non-profit 501(c) (3) tax exempt organization, founded in 2009, is dedicated to improving the lives of people with auditory deficiencies through their support of Las Voces del Silencio (LAVOSI). LAVOSI is an educational project for the deaf in Guatemala; [...]
Profile: Rotary Club & Maria Teresa Ordonez School
Posted by Laura on May 12, 2010
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The Rotary Club of Fort Collins teamed up with the Rotary Club of Cheyenne and the Rotary Club of Chiquimula de la Sierra, Guatemala to provide a computer lab for a school for deaf children in Zacapa, Guatemala. The Maria Teresa Ordonez School is the only school for deaf children in eastern Guatemala and serves [...]
Profile: Save the Children / Felix Aguilar Ramírez
Posted by Laura on May 10, 2010
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Save the Children and the Ad Council are working together to mobilize citizen action in the U.S. to help local health workers help save more children worldwide. Eye on the Future by Felix Aguilar Ramírez (local health worker in Xachmochán Village, Guatemala): This week I visited several children with diarrhea. Among them, a few already [...]
Profile: Charity Anywhere / 9-1-1 Guatemala
Posted by Laura on May 8, 2010
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Charity Anywhere Foundation’s mission is to give ordinary people the life changing opportunity to provide needed medical care, dental services and basic shelter to less developed countries while concurrently forever changing the mind and heart of the volunteer for good. They have organized service projects as close to home as Twin Falls, Idaho and as [...]
Profile: Mil Milagros
Posted by Laura on May 6, 2010
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Mil Milagros (“A Thousand Miracles”) was founded in 2007 by Margaret Blood, a bilingual advocate for children who is the Founder and President of Strategies for Children, Inc., an award-winning child policy and advocacy organization based in Boston. Mil Milagros was inspired by Margaret’s volunteer work at Proyecto Semilla, a school for child workers in [...]
Profile: Restoring Vision
Posted by Laura on May 4, 2010
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Restoring Vision is a non-profit which sources Reading Glasses and Sunglasses and supplies them at nominal charge to two distinct groups; groups going on missions to developing countries and domestic groups serving the underprivileged. All of us begin to experience blurry close-up vision around age 40. This is a common condition called presbyopia, and it [...]
Profile: Advocates for World Health
Posted by Laura on May 3, 2010
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Advocates for World Health (AWH) is run by a group of college students, backed by a professional board of directors and advisors, that seeks to understand the complexities of Latin American societies and confront them in such a way as to not hinder them. Part of AWH’s mission is to recognize and preserve the beauty [...]
Profile: Engineers Without Borders
Posted by Laura on April 28, 2010
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Dubbed the “Blueprint Brigade,” by Time Magazine, Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) grew from little more than a handful of members in 2002 to over 12,000 today. EWB-USA has over 350 projects in over 45 developing countries around the world including water, renewable energy, sanitation and more. These projects are completed in partnership with local communities [...]
Profile: Farming First
Posted by Laura on April 24, 2010
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Farming First is a global coalition of multi-stakeholder organizations representing the world’s farmers, scientists, engineers, and business. It is not an organization itself but rather exists to articulate, endorse and promote practical, actionable programs and activities to further sustainable agricultural development worldwide. The coalition exists to strengthen the voice of groups with shared views on [...]
Profile: CropLife Latin America
Posted by Marian on April 24, 2010
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CropLife Latin America operates a number of programs throughout the region. One project is a partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to provide training to farmers in the Cuchumatanes Highlands in Guatemala. The project aims to improve the livelihoods of 22,000 families with incomes below the poverty line. A needs analysis demonstrated that [...]
Profile: Rotaplast International
Posted by Laura on April 21, 2010
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Rotaplast is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides free multidisciplinary care for cleft lip and palate and other conditions requiring reconstructive surgery. They promote self-sufficiency in the countries where they work by training local physicians, counseling families, and collaborating with health officials on the development of sustainable cleft lip and palate programs. What is a [...]
Profile: University of Washington Guatemala Project (UWGP)
Posted by Laura on April 17, 2010
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The University of Washington Guatemala Project (UWGP) is a group of University of Washington students and recent alumni working to provide scholarships and vocational training for their peers in Guatemala. Their project is jointly designed and supported by UW students/alumni and the Movimiento de Trabajadores Campesinos (MTC), a non-governmental organization based in San Marcos, Guatemala. [...]
Profile: The Borlaug Institute / Texas A&M
Posted by Laura on April 14, 2010
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The Borlaug Institute provides the global outreach of Texas A&M Agriculture. Their faculty, scientists, and students are involved in over 100 countries around the world to better international agriculture. Funded by the USDA, the Borlaug has implemented a three-year agricultural extension program to benefit the indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala. Agriculture in Guatemala: Technology, Education, and Commercialization [...]
Profile: Books & Wings
Posted by Laura on April 7, 2010
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Books and Wings is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) non-profit, whose mission is to support community libraries and education in Guatemala. Books and Wings works in several under-served communities in the Departments of Esquintla and Suchitepéquez; including Tiquisate, Rio Bravo, and Chicacao. Community Libraries: They work with municipal authorities and library committees to strengthen their public [...]
Profile: Illini Prosthetics Team
Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010
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The Illini Prosthetics Team believes that every amputee around the world should be given a proper prosthetic arm replacement which is low-cost and functional. They are united in their cause to make this dream a reality. 25 million people around the world are missing one or more of their limbs due to landmines, violence, farming [...]
Profile: Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American Studies
Posted by Laura on April 3, 2010
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In 2006, The Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) was designated a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education. While maintaining one of the strongest concentrations of Brazilianists of any university in the United States, the Center’s renowned faculty also has particular strengths in Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology, the study of democracy [...]
Profile: GlobeMed
Posted by Laura on April 1, 2010
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GlobeMed is a network of university students that partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of the impoverished. Through their involvement today, students commit to a life of leadership in global health and social justice. Chapters are at the heart of GlobeMed’s model of engaging students to make an impact in the [...]
Profile: Hope Alliance
Posted by Laura on April 1, 2010
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Transforming Critical Need into Sustainable Change The mission of The Hope Alliance is to empower impoverished people with the skills and tools they need to create positive change in the lives of their families and in their villages. The Hope Alliance also educates and exposes volunteers to the situation of those in developing countries. The [...]
Profile: Project Concern International/Casa Materna
Posted by Laura on March 25, 2010
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Project Concern International (PCI) is a non-profit health and humanitarian aid organization dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. PCI began working in Guatemala in 1974, bringing basic health care to Mayan communities around Lake Atitlan. Throughout the 1980s, during the civil war that ravaged Guatemala, PCI trained an extensive network [...]
Profile: Roots & Wings International
Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010
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Roots and Wings International promotes elementary through university education in rural Guatemala. They work with indigenous youth whose families earn $2 per day growing coffee. Their work is rooted in recognizing the importance of culturally responsive education that empowers students to connect their cultural identity with sustainable social and economic development. Student Scholarship: Roots & Wings International [...]
Profile: Rotary Club of Le Roy – Water Filter Project
Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010
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Water, a necessity of life, is the commodity we can’t live without, yet one that over a billion people lack. They lack an adequate source and purity. Hundreds of children in Guatemala die each year from water borne disease. In the department of Izabal in eastern Guatemala, there are 4000 families, about 25,000 people who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]