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 [...]
Category Archives: Profiles
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: Wuqu’ Kawoq
Posted by Laura on May 26, 2010
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Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere. Decades of violence, corruption, and racism have stranded much of the population in poverty with uncertain prospects for the future. Although nearly 75% of the population in Guatemala is Mayan, and speaks one of over 20 different indigenous languages, there are no health care [...]
Profile: Primeros Pasos
Posted by Laura on May 20, 2010
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Primeros Pasos is a clinic in rural Guatemala that has a comprehensive outlook on health care. With the collaboration of health professionals, health educators, volunteers, and community leaders, Primeros Pasos offers quality and affordable health care and health education to the rural, underserved communities of the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Primeros Pasos works in [...]
Profile: IAHA
Posted by Laura on May 19, 2010
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The Inter-American Health Alliance (IAHA) is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports community health organizations working with marginalized populations in the western highlands of Guatemala. They provide financial, technical and organizational support to their partnering organizations They work to improve access to health care and health education through the development of innovative collaborations between [...]
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 [...]
Profile: VOSH
Posted by Laura on May 18, 2010
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VOSH is a non-governmental, non-sectarian, non-profit organization made up of optometrists, ophthalmologists, opticians, and other persons who have donated their time, talent, and money to help those in need to by building self-supporting eye clinics in the countries they serve. The VOSH mission is to empower local eye care specialists in developing countries by building [...]
Profile: Build a Nest
Posted by Laura on May 18, 2010
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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 [...]
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: Project HANDS
Posted by Laura on May 8, 2010
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Project HANDS is a group of people whose goal is to provide healthcare, education and other support to those who, by chance of birth, have lives less fortunate than their own. Their projects are aimed at improving the quality of rural Mayan life by providing healthcare and education. Healthcare: Because the Maya have little or [...]
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: Kids Alive
Posted by Laura on May 5, 2010
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Kids Alive International is a Christian faith mission dedicated to rescuing orphans and vulnerable children – meeting their spiritual, physical, educational and emotional needs. Kids Alive provides children with the love and care every child deserves, and raises them to be contributing members of their society and witnesses to their family and community. The Oasis: [...]
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 [...]