Our Partners in Sustainable Education and Health Projects in Guatemala
Miracles In Action is fortunate to work with several fine NGO (non-governmental organization) charities who share our commitment to making a lasting difference in the lives of those we serve. These established charities have excellent reputations and help us help others.
Amigos de Santa Cruz has coordinated Miracles in Actions’s largest project, a 3-story vocational center serving 6000 villagers around Lake Atitlan, in addition to helping coordinate our safe stove project in Santa Cruz. Their mission is to help support education, better health care, a cleaner environment and sustainable economic development for the remote village of Santa Cruz and surrounding areas.
People for Guatemala works with us on water systems, schools and safe stoves. Their mission is to promote human advancement by engaging the poor in rural Guatemala through health and community development to effect long term change for families and their communities.
PEILE (Proyecto Educativo Integral Libertad y Enseñanza) works to improve the living conditions of children and young people in extreme poverty in the Huehuetenango, our most impoverished area of work. We have partnered on projects including scholarships and the building of schools and water systems and safe stoves.
Behrhorst Partners for Development are the construction coordinators for many of our schools and water systems. They work in partnership with the rural Mayans of highland Guatemala through projects related to health, education and participatory community development.
Wells of Hope focuses on helping others to help themselves attain the basic necessities of clean water, education, and basic healthcare. Our current project with them is a school in Los Laureles, Jalapa.
The Ripple Effect works in the Chajul area, a remote, cold, and extremely poor area of Guatemala, teaching about gardening for food and income, raising livestock and other sustainable projects. We support them through our pigs and chickens distribution program.
Child-Aid is partnering with us in 2012 to offer teacher training to improve literacy in the Patzun area. It’s mission is to create opportunity for Latin America’s rural and indigenous poor through childhood literacy and education programs.
Let’s Be Ready supports the academic success of at-risk Guatemalan children through establishing preschools that focus on preparing students for their entry into elementary school. Miracles in Action has worked with this NGO to provide preschool opportunities in rural areas of deep poverty. For more information, visit Miracles in Action’s 1st preschool project.
Narú works in the Alta Verapaz area, the poorest department of Guatemala, with water projects, nutrition programs, health education and emergency relief. We have partnered on a health education project to provide TV/DVD players to show animated and culturally-appropriate bi-lingual films, with themes including childcare, nutrition and family planning.
WINGS creates opportunities for Guatemalan families to improve their lives by providing them with family planning education and access to reproductive health services. Miracles in Action has supported women’s health programs and family planning education through them.
Riecken Foundation provides the framework for community libraries/learning centers and internet access. Miracles in Action has funded two libraries through Riecken Foundation.
Vamos Adelante provides education, health and nutrition services to the poor in more than rural 24 villages in southern Guatemala. Miracles in Action has funded pigs and chickens and sponsored scholarships, stoves and water filters and built two schools/libraries through this long-term partner.
Embrace Guatemala builds wood burning stoves, organizes youth activities, establishes libraries in schools, helps to improve people’s homes, and delivers aid in the rural area of Nebaj. Miracles in Action has recently funded it’s first school with this partner.
