Increasing Crops, Protecting Land in Guatemala Photo Gallery

Children who learn and see firsthand the success of World Neighbors grow up to continue the practices with their own families.

Children directly benefit from World Neighbors programs - from having more food to eat, to familes having money to send them to school.

World Neighbors teaches indigenous communities to use their natural resources through long-lasting agricultural practices.

This farmer from the village of Santiago holds a handful of healthy, organic coffee beans. Selling the beans will provide income for his family.

The Lema organization in San Juan La Laguna uses World Neighbors support to produce their own cotton and color dyes to weave textiles. The women's organization then uses the income from selling their products to send their children to school.

Coffee is one of the main exports of Guatemala. Once this environmentally friendly grown coffee has completed the drying process, it will be sold for income.

This woman making tortillas has incorporated World Neighbors "healthy home" concept by locating her kichen in a separate location from the rest of the house.