Tag Archives: Schools

Project Update: Sharing the Dream

Posted by Marian on August 17, 2010 Comments Off

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala is a non-profit organization that promotes fair trade with cooperatives and small businesses in Guatemala. Sharing the Dream is working very hard so that through their work, families can afford to educate their children, provide health care, and promote healthy living in their own families. In late June 2010, Sharing the Dream hosted a [...]

Profile: Mayan Hope

Posted by Laura on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

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: TEACH

Posted by Laura on June 14, 2010 Comments Off

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: Transitions – UPDATED

Posted by Laura on May 28, 2010 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

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: Guatemala Friends Scholarship Program

Posted by Laura on May 19, 2010 Comments Off

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: Friends of the Deaf / LAVOSI

Posted by Laura on May 13, 2010 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

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: Mil Milagros

Posted by Laura on May 6, 2010 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

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: Maya Traditions

Posted by Laura on April 22, 2010 1 comment

In 1988, Maya Traditions founder Jane Mintz, an experienced social worker (MSW) and weaver, began working with indigenous women artisans living in poverty in Guatemala. She observed that their skill of backstrap weaving was a chance for them to earn a stable income for their families while working from home doing what they were already [...]

Blog Profile: She doesn’t speak Spanish

Posted by Kari on April 19, 2010 1 comment

“I’m moving to Guatemala, but I don’t speak Spanish… at all” The no habla Espanol “she” is Kerry Smith, a blogger from North Carolina who works in a school for the nonprofit Lemonade International. Kerry didn’t go to Guatemala to become a teacher; she want to be a student, in a Spanish language school this [...]

Profile: University of Washington Guatemala Project (UWGP)

Posted by Laura on April 17, 2010 Comments Off

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: Las Manos de Christine

Posted by Laura on April 9, 2010 Comments Off

Las Manos de Christine works within impoverished communities to broaden opportunities for local children by providing English language instruction . It is in its fourth year of operation and building new relationships with individuals and other charitable organizations. Currently, its primary relationship is with Camino Seguro, which both has helped Las Manos enormously in its [...]

Profile: Books & Wings

Posted by Laura on April 7, 2010 Comments Off

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: Hope Alliance

Posted by Laura on April 1, 2010 Comments Off

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: Let’s Be Ready

Posted by Laura on March 30, 2010 Comments Off

Let’s Be Ready’s mission is to prepare at-risk Guatemalan children for the first-grade by establishing preschools and training preschool and first-grade teachers. Their vision is to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala by reducing the high rate of drop-out and repetition of children in the first-grade. Their goal is to have 80% of [...]

Profile: CasaSito

Posted by Laura on March 24, 2010 1 comment

CasaSito increases educational opportunities in rural areas of Guatemala so that indigenous people living in poverty can attend school, receive quality instruction, and obtain the skills they need to improve their lives. CasaSito has two approaches for addressing educational needs, depending on location. In the Department of Sacatepéquez, they offer scholarships and work closely with [...]

Profile: Refuge International

Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010 Comments Off

Refuge International (RI) is a compassionate 501(c)3 volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives of families and individuals through the collaborative development of sustainable programs in areas where healthcare, adequate nutrition, clean water and education are lacking or non-existent. Refuge International also provides opportunities for mentoring of students who wish to become involved in humanitarian efforts. [...]

Profile: Ak’Tenamit

Posted by Laura on March 23, 2010 Comments Off

Ak’ Tenamit means “New Village” in the Q’eqchi Mayan language, because their organization is transforming life in the Q’eqchi villages of eastern Guatemala. Those villages are located around the Río Dulce, far from the nearest road – most are reached by a boat trips and hikes through the rain forest – and they lack electricity, [...]

Profile: Partnership in Women’s Ministries

Posted by Laura on March 22, 2010 Comments Off

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: De Casas a Hogares (From Houses to Homes)

Posted by Laura on March 19, 2010 1 comment

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: Safe Homes for Children

Posted by Laura on March 16, 2010 Comments Off

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 Comments Off

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: Long Way Home