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A World of Reading for Maya Children in Guatemala

Guatemala

Education

Help build a school library and reading room for indigenous children in Panabaj, Santiago Atitlan to improve literacy, academic skills, and self esteem.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$10 - provides a floor cushion for a child to sit on

$25 - buys three books for the lending library

$50 - builds a set of bookshelves

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Support Sustainability for Guatemalan Farmers

Guatemala

Microfinance

Families in the village of Villa Linda will be able to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, buy the land that they are working.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - Provides credit management training for one woman.

$60 - Provides a woman's first loan in a community bank.

$150 - Buys a cow to begin a dairy business.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Diabetes Care for Kaqchikel Maya

Guatemala

Health

Providing diabetes care, including essential medications, blood sugar monitoring, and medical consultations, to indigenous Kaqchikel-speaking patients in Guatemala.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$15 - Essential diabetes pills for 1 patient for 1 month

$20 - Insulin and insulin supplies for 1 patient for 1 month

$50 - Monitoring of kidney function and blood glucose for 1 patient for 1 year

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

School Meals at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

Guatemala

Health

Providing a daily balanced diet for 200 children in the Peña Blanca community elementary school. Often, this is the children's only meal of the day.

How You Can Help:

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$12 - School meals for 2 children for 1 month

$30 - School meals for 1 child for half an academic year

$60 - School meals for 1 child for 1 school year

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Creating Girl Readers in Guatemala

Guatemala

Education

This project provides 440 girls a better education by building a love and habit for reading and computers at 11 community-managed libraries through educational activities and involving parents.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Buys 2 Children’s books for a library

$30 - Sponsors educational activities for a “Girl Reader” for one month

$50 - Supports 8 families to attend a workshop for early childhood development

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Technology Access for Mayan Women in Guatemala

Guatemala

Women and Girls

This project is creating community technology centers operated by and for Mayan women's groups in the Quiché region for inclusion, empowerment, learning, communication, and economic development.

How You Can Help:

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$30 - Gives a girl introductory computer and Internet skills.

$60 - Lets a woman take a multimedia e-course designed especially for women.

$150 - Trains a woman to administer a technology center.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Preserve Guatemalan Culture With Community Radio

Guatemala

Education

Nawal Estereo is Guatemala's first educational radio station to broadcast in a Mayan language. It is in danger of shutting down for lack of funding. YOU can help this tradition continue.

How You Can Help:

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$30 - Produces 1 public service announcement to educate people about AIDS.

$69 - Powers the station for 2 days.

$75 - Funds 1 week of youth programming.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Empowering Fishing Communities in the MAR Reef

Guatemala

Environment

This project will provide funding to at least 5 fishing communities along the Mesoamerican Reef coast in order to encourage community participation in the management of local fish stocks.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$30 - For the regional fund

$50 - For the regional fund

$100 - For the regional fund

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Empowering Guatemalan Youth to Promote Literacy

Guatemala

Children

We provide scholarships and leadership development training to rural Guatemalan teens. In return, they give back to their community by leading reading activities with younger children.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Art supplies for a reading activity with 10 kids

$25 - 10 new Spanish-language children’s storybooks

$50 - A field trip to the library for a group of 10 kids

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Life-changing surgery for the poor of Guatemala

Guatemala

Health

Poor Guatemalans receive life-changing surgery by a network of 800 US surgeons and volunteers. Special support is given to the many rural patients and families who travel great distances for surgery.

How You Can Help:

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$15 - provides accommodation and meals to one patient and a family member at guesthouse "Casa de Fe"

$30 - provides transportation to a surgery center for one patient

$50 - buys antibiotics for ten patients

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

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