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Project Update: Sharing the Dream

Marian — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:48 +0000

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 group that spent 10 days in Sololá studying fair trade and sustainability. The group visited numerous artisan cooperatives including the women of Flor de Campo ...complete post

Profile: Curamericas Global, Inc.

Laura — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:35:22 +0000

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 their local partners are in need of both medical and non-medical volunteers.

Since 2003, Curamericas Global has been working with their ...complete post

Profile: Primeros Pasos

Laura — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:56 +0000

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 the Palajunoj Valley, a rural valley in western Guatemala with high rates of communicable diseases, malnutrition, and untreated chronic diseases. ...complete post

Profile: Build a Nest

Laura — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:51:13 +0000

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 and successfully moves women from poverty to self-sufficiency.

To address some limitations to microfinance, Nest has developed a new way to ...complete post

Profile: A Thread of Hope

Marian — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:49:13 +0000

A Thread of Hope is a fair trade web store featuring items from Guatemala. Eliza Strode, the owner, is a clinical social worker who went to Guatemala in 1997 to learn Spanish. Previously a food co-op manager in Cambridge, MA, she visited a number of artisans’ cooperatives in Guatemala. Eliza started selling Fairly-Traded products from Guatemala in 2001. She has spent three to four months per year since 2007 in Guatemala working on a volunteer basis providing technical assistance to ...complete post

Profile: Maya Traditions

Laura — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:17:43 +0000

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 good at. Maya Traditions was founded to help these skilled artisans succeed and preserve their cultures through access to a ...complete post

Profile: Dr. Roselyn Costantino

Laura — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:57:41 +0000

Roselyn Costantino, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University Altoona, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spring Semester 2011 to do research in Guatemala and to lecture at the Universidad Del Valle Guatemala, Department of Anthropology.

During the six-month award, Costantino will conduct qualitative research on the internal organizational dynamics of civic organizations founded and led by women since the end of the Guatemala civil war in 1996; document alliance building ...complete post

Announcement: Shalom Foundation Upcoming Trips

Laura — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:45:42 +0000

The following trips are being sponsored by and/or are associated with The Shalom Foundation. To find out more information, visit their website.

All groups will work in Guatemala City.

Clean Water Trip – Living Waters for the World Franklin Breakfast Rotary & Kingsport First Presbyterian Church April 28 – May 3, 2010

Team members will bring clean water systems to Shalom School and The Moore Center for Children’s Health. This team will provide educational literature and classes for students, ...complete post

Profile: Project Concern International/Casa Materna

Laura — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:47:28 +0000

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 of volunteers and local leaders to deliver health services to families in need. Building on three decades of experience, PCI/Guatemala continues ...complete post

Profile: CasaSito

Laura — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:00:37 +0000

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 local learning centers to provide in-depth and extensive support for students and families. In more remote areas, they work with community ...complete post