Partial List of Guatemala Projects
Hospicio San José
This group operates an AIDS hospice for
children and adults in a town 30 minutes from
Antigua. There are currently 29 children
and 9 adults in the Hospice. The
adults have AIDS, have been abandoned
by their family and will spend their final
days in the hospice. All of the
children are
infected with the HIV virus but not all
have developed AIDS. Most of the children
have lost one or both of their parents to AIDS
and face fear, death, and abandonment
everyday.
The Hospice works to make all of its
patients as comfortable and as prepared for
the future as possible. It sponsors
group activities and provides medical care and love.
For terminal patients, the organization provides
psychological and spiritual guidance to
help them
face death with dignity and peace.
For the children who haven't developed AIDS,
they provide counseling to help the children
and if their families to understand the
disease.
Needs:
Diapers, baby & childrens clothes,
medicine, personal hygiene items
More Info:
http://aidscommunity.org/hivmeds/hospice.htm
Nuestros AhijadosThis group includes integrated social
workers, a psychology department, a clinic,
and a school. It is Antigua based, but is
also working with extended communities.
Sponsor programs are offered. They work to
encourage students to obtain good grades and
complete schooling. They provide a safe
haven for children of abusive families, and
besides the hundreds of children they
currently care for, many more show up as
emergency cases, injured, abandoned, or
forgotten by the court system. Last year,
400 children who qualified for the program
were unable to attend due to lack of funds.
The group hopes for a day in which no
destitute child will be turned away from
their doors.
Needs:
Cash for nutritional snacks/food, school
supplies, medical supplies
More
Info:
www.albergue.org or
www.ana.org.gt or
www.godschild.org
Albergue Antigua
The Santa Madre
homeless shelter in Antigua, Guatemala
offers a safe, clean, and caring place for
men, women, and children, many of whom would
be living on the streets of the city if not
for the shelter’s efforts. Funding will help
to provide additional housing, an on-site
medical clinic, skills training for adults
and schooling for children. The homeless
shelter is located near the market in
Antigua. The organization is struggling
to stay open due to lack of donations.
Needs:
Unfortunately currently closed due to
lack of donations: cash, clothes &
shoes, personal hygiene items, cleaning
products, towels and mattresses.
More Info:
www.albergue.org or
www.ana.org.gt or
www.godschild.org
Asociación Bendición de DiosThis group strives to
improve schools in a village outside
Antigua. They provide healthy meals for
students, as well as education and
enhancement in the home lives of the
children, most of whom live in the kind of
abject poverty we can scarcely imagine. By
teaching the children about nutrition they
hope to advance the health of the students.
The education they provide gives the
children hope for the future. They also
outreach to the families of the students to
help them strive to obtain a better life and
encourage their children to achieve
scholastic goals for the betterment of the
whole community.
Needs:
cash, school materials
More Info:
www.stichtinglosninos.nl/engels/
Camino SeguroThis is a school and clinic serving the
people living and working in the Guatemala
City garbage dump. Over 70 students
currently attend each day. Were it not for
this organization, the children would be
forced to work in the filthy garbage dump
alongside their parents. Rewards of clothing
and food are offered to students and their
families for attending the school.
Recreational and artistic projects are also
organized for the students. They also run a
refuge home for children at risk in Antigua,
and are planning to open a hotel run by
youths needing to learn a profession.
Needs:
cash, clothes, shoes, school supplies
More Info:
www.swcp.com/shinealight/Pages/CaminoSeg.html
Familias de Esperanza
Integrated project with social
workers, housing projects, a work counseling
department, clinics, support for local
school teachers, and a learning disability
program. This project also sponsors 2,300
students in their village schools. Common Hope has helped countless
students achieve an education in an area
where schooling was formerly unavailable to
them. These students have gone on to build
up the community and help others through
teaching and volunteering. Common Hope also
sponsors a clinic to provide medical care,
and reaches out to families and communities
to unite and to support student efforts to
obtain higher education. They are Antigua
based, but are also working with extended
communities.
Needs:
Cash, school supplies, medical supplies,
personal hygiene items
More Info:
www.commonhope.org
Centro de Salud
Centro de Salud is a publicly funded health
center for the municipality of Antigua. The
center in Antigua has a main building with
clinics for dental care, vaccinations, first
aid, a
sociologist, and family planning. In
addition, the organization
administers small clinics (“puestos”) around
the countryside that assist people from the
local community with their health needs. At present, most
of these clinics are run by 1-2 certified nurses who assist a
population of sometimes as many as 30,000
inhabitants!
Besides health care, the center has
developed several programs to improve the
living conditions of the local population in
order to prevent diseases or health
problems, such as pollution of drinking
water, dengue and tuberculosis.
Needs:
Cash, medical supplies,
personal hygiene items
Hogares ComunitariosThis organization specializes in looking
after small children, aged infant to 10 in
many small villages surrounding Antigua.
Teachers and volunteers
provide some schooling and educational play
activities. These
day care centers provide a safe place for
poor children whose parents must work long
hours in an attempt to support their family.
Food is also included in the program, along
with the care of kind volunteers and the
safe shelter of the facilities.
Needs:
Educational games/toys, plates, Cash for
Cash for nutritional snacks/food,
mattresses
More Info:
www.ifpri.org/data/Guatemala01.htm
Niño ObreroThis group sponsors a school in Antigua for
kids 4 to 17 years old who work and cannot
attend school during normal hours. The
students are given an elementary education
as well as training in specialized
vocational skills so that they may better
their lives and the lives of their families.
The students are also provided with health
services and health education, as well as
nutritional foods and even artistic
enrichment.
Needs:
Cash for nutritional snacks/food, school
materials, computers
More Info:
www.nuestrosderechos.org
Obras Sociales Hermano PedroThis place is a
clinic for outpatients, a home for the
chronically ill (suffering from both mental
and physical disabilities), and a
malnourishment clinic that saves the lives
of underprivileged infants each day. They
also provide a visiting surgery team for
cleft palate and similar operations. They
offer loving care to poor adults and
children, as well as the elderly, who have
nowhere else to turn.
Needs:
Personal hygiene articles, diapers for
adults and children.
More Info:
www.obrashermanopedro.org
PROBIGUA - Proyecto Bibliotecas GuatemalaThis group
opens libraries in underprivileged areas and
sponsors educational projects through the
library system. Their mobile library offers
people in remote areas access to a large
variety of books and educational materials.
The staff helps to instill in children a
love of books and reading, and encourages
students to stay in school in an area where
children’s educations rarely go beyond the
third grade level. They also provide rural
schools with materials to enrich their
scholastic programs.
Needs:
Books in Spanish, school materials,
computers
More Info:
www.probigua.conexion.com/morlibinfo.htm
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