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 [...]
Tag Archives: Programs for Children
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 [...]
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: Reading Village
Posted by Kari on February 1, 2010
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To visit the Reading village website, please click here. Belief Statement: Every child should be able to grow up free to express their fullest self, give what they have to contribute to their families, their communities, their countries and the world. Access to books, the ability to read, and to think critically and imaginatively are [...]
Profile: Casa Jackson
Posted by Laura on February 1, 2010
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“Infants are the most vulnerable victims of poverty. Children come into the world ready to thrive and grow. When they are denied proper and sufficient nutrition in their diets, their systems are ill-equipped to prepare for it and the consequences can be permanent. Casa Jackson for malnourished Infants is rejuvenating the most defenseless victims of [...]
Profile: Project Somos
Posted by Laura on January 29, 2010
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Compassion Fruit Society, a Canadian based Non-Profit Organization is establishing the Project Somos Children’s Village in Guatemala. This village will be a safe and loving environment for orphaned and abandoned children. There will be homes with Guatemalan foster mothers each raising a household of children as a family. Education, leadership and arts will be integral [...]
Profile: Pueblo a Pueblo
Posted by Laura on January 28, 2010
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On the shores of Lake Atitlan in the southern highlands of Guatemala, surrounded by volcanoes is nestled Santiago Atitlan, a small indigenous T’zutujil Mayan community. This village of 43,000 residents represents one of the largest Mayan indigenous communities in the Americas. In past five years, devastating natural disasters compounded the bleak pre-existing educational and economic [...]
Profile: The Guatemalan Down Syndrome Association
Posted by Laura on January 15, 2010
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The Guatemalan Down Syndrome Association (AGSD) is a non-profit organization founded to help children with Down’s Syndrome in Guatemala. The program includes early stimulation, physical therapy, special education, language therapy, and in CECAP several different workshops including: baking, carpentry, horticulture, etc. They work in four different areas: Early Education: Birth to 2 years Preschool: 3 to 5 years [...]
Profile: Guatemala Literacy Project
Posted by Laura on January 11, 2010
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The Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) is a partnership between North American & Guatemalan Rotary clubs and the non-profit organization Cooperative for Education (CoEd). This initiative provides badly-needed textbooks, library materials, and computer labs to underprivileged children in Guatemala. The Project has been supported by over 300 Rotary Clubs. Since 1996, the textbook program has been [...]
Profile: Evelyn’s Baskets
Posted by Laura on January 5, 2010
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September 1, 2007: Evelyn arrived with a severe cleft lip and palate. She and her parents were given much support from the midwife, doctors and nurses from the minute she was born. They recommended and located a specialty bottle, made for babies born with cleft lip/palate, so she would immediately be able to get the [...]
Profile: Salomon’s Porch
Posted by Laura on January 3, 2010
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Porch de Salomon is a response to God calling a family into a life of love and service in Panajachel, Guatemala, by developing a multi-faceted ministry to reach not only the large population of expatriates, but to help mobilize the volunteer teams and individuals who come to minister to the indigenous population as well. Solomon’s [...]
Profile: Clínica Dental / Río Dulce – UPDATED
Posted by Laura on December 13, 2009
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This project, run jointly by the Anacortes (Washington) Rotary Club and Club Rotario de la Asunción of Guatemala, began in the early 1990’s and provides year-round dental service to very poor Queqchi Mayan people living in remote areas of eastern Guatemala. Volunteers serve for a minimum of ten days (although the group prefers a longer [...]
Profile: The Shalom Foundation
Posted by Laura on December 1, 2009
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The Shalom Foundation is dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and financial support to underprivileged children and their families with a focus on Christian values and service. The Shalom Foundation is supported through contributions from private citizens, businesses, churches and foundations. The Medical Program: The Medical Program is one of The Shalom Foundation’s most important [...]
Profile: Orphan Resources International
Posted by Laura on November 12, 2009
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Orphan Resources International (ORI) believes that every child is special and that God has a plan for each of their lives. Their mission and goal is to aid the children of this world, who through no fault of their own, have found themselves orphaned and alone. They wish to show them that God and many [...]
Profile: Food For The Poor
Posted by Laura on October 21, 2009
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Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. They provide emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with [...]
Profile: Beyond the Walls
Posted by Laura on October 21, 2009
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Beyond the Walls is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit corporation dedicated to making substantial long-term impact in the lives of the poor and disadvantaged through focused opportunities in their community, their country and their world. They believe meaningful impact is achieved by focusing on the physical, relational and spiritual needs of those they serve. This holistic approach [...]
Profile: Hogar Rafael Ayau
Posted by Laura on October 3, 2009
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“So we have a little basket at the door of the orphanage – which is a 150-year-old Home – and with a tradition of a little basket at the door,” she explained. In the year 1857, Don Rafael Ayau built the first orphanage in Guatemala City, known as “The Home of Mercy”. Because of broken homes, [...]
Profile: Compassion International
Posted by Laura on September 30, 2009
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Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. Compassion recently celebrated the milestone of 1 million children sponsored at one time. Child Sponsorship: Compassion’s work in Guatemala began in 1976. Currently, more than 33,300 children participate in 140 child development centers. The [...]
Profile: Hijas
Posted by Laura on September 24, 2009
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Hijas™ takes its name from the Spanish word for “daughters,” the demographic they seek to empower through a series of programs designed to provide both immediate and long-term relief. The residents of the Marta and Maria Orphanage in Jalapa, Guatemala come from various family situations, from girls who have lost both of their parents, to [...]
Profile: Behrhorst Partners for Development & Behrhorst Clinic
Posted by Laura on September 18, 2009
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The mission of the Behrhorst Partners for Development (BPD) is to strengthen and expand processes of community development and participation that enhance people’s lives. It has two major goals: To support sustainable development initiatives that improve the health and well-being of particularly vulnerable sectors of society. To promote through experience-based education an understanding of the [...]
Profile: Casa Guatemala
Posted by Laura on September 17, 2009
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Casa Guatemala is an orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. These children come from a variety of backgrounds; some have been abandoned, some have been abused, while still others come from families too poor to even provide the basics of a child’s needs. The project touches the lives [...]
Profile: Hearts in Motion
Posted by Laura on September 17, 2009
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The mission of Hearts In Motion is to provide care and medical treatment for children, families, and communities through its programs and sponsorships in the U.S., and Central and South America. An additional goal is to provide opportunities for individuals to participate in short-term mission experiences. The impact of the trip experience on each team [...]
Profile: Safe Passage (Camino Seguro)
Posted by Laura on September 10, 2009
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Safe Passage – Hope, Education, Opportunity At Safe Passage (Camino Seguro), the mission is to create opportunities and foster dignity through the power of education. Safe Passage works with the poorest at-risk children of families living and working in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Within a safe and caring environment, they provide a comprehensive and [...]
Profile: The Equilibrium Fund
Posted by Laura on September 2, 2009
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The Equilibrium Fund is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 2001. Their mission is to alleviate poverty, malnutrition and deforestation by teaching rural and indigenous women about the nutrition, uses and processing of Maya Nut (Brosimum alicastrum). Maya Nut is a nutritious, delicious, versatile and easy to harvest rainforest tree which can provide free [...]