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Move Forward is a dance, basketball, rap program to uplift traumatized children. Our coaches work in refugee camps, shelters and slums. We believe movement and music are effective ways for coping with trauma.
EDUCIAC promueve y defiende el reconocimiento colectivo de las personas como sujetas de derecho a través de procesos participativos y de incidencia política que dignifiquen la vida, para la transformación social. EDUCIAC promotes and defends the collective recognition of people as subjects of rights through participatory processes and political advocacy that dignify life, for social transformation.
Our mission is to educate and improve access to knowledge and know-how of producers that are part of eligible local organizations, while applying innovative methodologies for value-chain optimization. Our end-goal is 3-fold: (1) To reduce poverty and income inequality through sustainable, wealth-generating programs; (2) To enhance human capital to meet the needs of a competitive global market; (3) To increase private and non-for-profit sectors co-investments for shared-value creation. Our team has a strong experience in various sectors, such as the handicraft and coffee sectors; we also prioritize critical areas such as technology; brand, marketing & communications; and, leadership development & entreprenuerialship; to deliver long-lasting results within the area of influence, operating in Chiapas, with scaling opportunities in vulnerable regions with indigenous populations in Mexico and in Latin America.
We help children, teenagers and youth of Malinalco to choose and live a life they value, through a model of personalized, integral and continuous accompaniment, which promotes their rights to protection from violence, promotion of development and participation.
Teaching Mexican Youth boys and girls valuable life skills through woodworking , carpentry and CAD design.
The Community Studies and Strengthening Center Mano Vuelta A.C. It is a feminist civil society organization, whose mission is contribute to the construction of an equitable and human rights respectful society, through research, training and community initiatives with a gender and intercultural perspective.
Eat Better Wa'ik generates food awareness and actions to reduce malnutrition through creative and inclusive education, economics, transformative agriculture, consumption and technology. We merge food security, climate sustainability and human rights, for an improved change in the narrative, comprehension and behavior from and towards food. We seek to transform food systems with more transparent collaboration and bringing diverse stakeholders and individuals together in Guatemala, the region and the world.
We are an institution founded in 1953, in Mexicali BC, Mexico, under the direction of the Trinitarian Sisters, we serve girls and young women who have been abused or are at risk in their communities. We focus in offering them protection, safeguarding their dignity and rights while giving them the opportunity to make a change in their lives. Our mission is to be an open door to hope, giving girls and young women the opportunity of a new life. WELCOMING without condition, ORIENTING those who are confused, LOOKING for those who are lost, CELEBRATING their achievements, TEACHING the path that leads them to their own fulfillment and happiness, FREEING them from any slavery, LIFTING UP those who have fallen, ACCOMPANYING them in their fight to regain their dignity and SENDING them to announce the good news of their lives. We make them feel loved and respected. We teach them values by setting the example: honesty, integrity, humility, empathy, respect, tolerance, patience, truthfulness, responsibility, discipline, and hard work are some of which we practice. Our Vision is to be a home with appropriate and dignified spaces that allow the practice of the necessary activities and programs where the girls can discover the treasure that they carry within, we do this by helping them maximize their potential by discovering their talents and capabilities so they can achieve social re-integration when they are ready to leave our home. During their time in our school the girls continue their education and receive professional psychological attention. We work in conjunction with institutions in the area with whom we have agreements that certify that the girls have comply with the Government Educational requirements. Some girls are allowed to attend school out of our home, others receive home schooling, either because they are behind their regular school grade or need special attention. That is why we also offer government approved home education programs. We follow up with each case until the girls succeed and get their school diploma. To assure the girls not only have an academic development, we also offer different workshops so they can have an alternative career path when leaving the house, they can choose between, Cosmetology, Seamstress, and Artisanship. They also learn English and take IT courses. We are very proud to be able to say that over the years we have rescued from the streets over 320 girls, we have formed more than 70 community leaders and over 50 of our girls have been able to form their own family.
Our Mission is to provide institutional and financial support, facilitating positive correlation within the educational and social projects in order to reinforce their commitment with those who live at the exclusion boundaries, and therefore, collaborating in the construction of more human and sustainable world full of Peace.
1.- To support each community in the effort to create and develop its community museum, to strengthen our awareness of our past, its impact on the present, and the possibilities for building a future based on the values of our ancestors. 2.- To unify our communities, sharing our concerns and supporting each other by developing networks at a state, national and international level. 3.- To strengthen community action in education, training, and the recreation of collective memory and practices, through projects that benefit all participating communities.
We are a multicultural civil society organization with a deep commitment to the poorest who consider work in the communities promoting a horizontal relationship as the basis of their methodology. We work with organized structures, promoters and promoters, boys and girls, leaders, women and the general population of popular, indigenous and peasant communities. We provide knowledge and tools necessary for the construction of their human, integral and sustainable development for the protection and defense of their human rights and their natural assets.
Promote the active, full and dignified participation of children, youth and adults with cerebral palsy or neuromotor disability in all areas of society, through Conductive Education whose objective is the upbringing, training and development of a person with autonomy and self determination