The Rainbow became an important meeting place for local non-profits and NGOs over 11 years ago when the Evening Lectures /NGO Talks first began. The idea of the lectures/talks is to be a link between the NGO and people interested in getting involved with the great projects that work towards making a better Guatemala.
Every talk we host increases a NGOs public exposure as well as the probability that someone attending may decide to volunteer, donate money or fundraise for the charity. Since hosting the first talk (Sue Patterson´s) we´ve had more than 50 local non-profits and NGO´s presenting!
A donation of Q25 is asked for to each person attending the talk, the donation given goes directly to the presenting NGO.
At VIDA we offer education to 100 children, 20 of them having special needs. We adopt a holistic approach to development for the children in the community of San Miguel Dueñas; we offer them inclusive education, lunches, vitamins, English courses, robotics, arts and sports. Currently, VIDA is the only option for children with special needs in San Miguel Dueñas. VIDA is a non-lucrative entity; it focuses on fighting for those in the community who are most in need.
Vida is able to operate thanks to:
- Donations, (Donators).
- Activities to collect funds (Sponsors).
- Self-sustainable projects (self-sustainability).
The Guatemalan charity, Asociación Nuestros Ahijados (ANA), was founded in 1991 by GOD’S CHILD Project founder Patrick Atkinson. Since 1991, ANA has grown from humble beginnings in a borrowed farmhouse to currently serving an estimated of 5,000 orphaned and impoverished children, and widowed, abandoned, and/or single mothers and their dependents across Guatemala.
The care programs, and facilities that ANA provides are able to keep running thanks to the financial support of our benefactors, volunteers, child sponsors, and donor sponsorships of specific programs, and general donations. In addition to financial support, volunteers of all skill levels are greatly needed to support all ANA programs in Guatemala.
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Days For Girls is an international not-for-profit organization that is turning menstrual periods into pathways. Many girls and women across the world struggle with Period Poverty. Period Poverty refers to a woman not being able to (for a variety of reasons) hygienically and responsibly manage their monthly menstrual period. The reasons for this are many…. periods are looked upon as very taboo, not talked about by anyone, seen as dirty, and prevent women from going to work and girls going to school. Imagine having no menstrual hygiene products at all!
Days For Girls is helping to give days back to women and girls by providing education and reusable menstrual kits (made of fabric, washable pads). Linda and Manuel will talk about improving menstrual health in Guatemala. There are over seven million girls and women menstruating in Guatemala and together we can help each and every one of them!
Sue, a retired US Foreign Service officer, lives in Antigua. She is a former US Consul General in Guatemala and served in Chile, Iran, and Italy. She is also the founder of WINGS Guatemala, an organization dedicated to reproductive health education and services. Sue is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including the Sargent Shriver Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Service from the National Peace Corps Association of America.
Tejidos Cotzal is a group of 42 Mayan women from San Juan Cotzal, Quiche, who are all passionate weavers. Cotzal was hit by the civil war worse than any other place in Guatemala and left so many families without fathers, brothers or husbands. The women had to take the initiative and unite to guarantee the survival of their families. They support each other and try to send their children to school by weaving.
In this presentation they will share how the cooperative works, the eco-tours, and show you the special weaving technique of their beautiful products.
We are a non-governmental organization, with transversal axes such as social justice through Arts, education, the empowerment of women; integrating the pedagogy of peace as a main base. Our work is focused on community service for children, adolescents and women, mainly from the department of Sacatepéquez.
We have 19 years of experience working in community-based work, and we are a group formed by people of different nationalities and professions, where our point of union is the dignified defense of life and the deconstruction of patriarchy by integrating new practices of human relationships. We believe in the defense of human rights as a fundamental need for good living.
Our axes of reflection and political commitment are:
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- Access to education
- Sexual health education
- Library
- Arts
- Training processes towards the prevention of violence.
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Asociación Educando Guatemala: Reinforcing rural inclusive education in Guatemala
In Asociación Educando Guatemala we are aware of the needs that the children of the community of Chimaltenango have. In order to help reduce these needs and to improve the quality of the children’s lives we partner with the local public schools by providing health and nutrition services as well as teacher trainings. All our programs are implemented with strategic and innovative methods bearing in mind the realities of the rural areas in which the schools operate.
Our national and international donors play an important role in helping us achieve our goals through their donations.