Completed Projects
The Guatemala Education Ministry is requiring preschool education for all children in the country. At the same time, no funding for classrooms, tables, chairs or instructional materials is allocated to the districts. Some of the schools in the Zacualpa area have made classroom space available. Still needed are tables, chairs and some instructional materials. The original request for 100 sets came from the superintendent of schools for the municipality of Zacualpa. In 2022, Amigos de Guatemala was able to provide 30 sets to outfit six preschool classrooms. Seventy more sets of the brightly colored tables and chairs are needed. The sets are made locally and cost Q1,000 or $135 US. To furnish all of the schools needing tables and chairs cost $9,450 US. They were made in Guatemala, providing work for local people.
The Guatemala Ministry of Education is mandating preschool for all communities that have an elementary school. Unfortunately, there is no funding to construct or outfit a classroom for rural schools. One of the smallest communities in the municipality of Zacualpa requested support to build a new classroom. Cost $14,700. Project details.
The Guatemala Ministry of Education is mandating preschool for all communities that have an elementary school. Unfortunately, there is no funding to outfit a classroom for rural schools. The superintendent of school requested 100 preschool table and chair sets for the 20+ preschool classrooms in the district. Cost $135 per set. Project details.
Provided food staples (beans, oil, pasta, rice, etc.) to the elderly and single mothers. Supported over 300 families a month for six months with 25 pounds of food items.
To be able to plant and support a year round garden as well as enough water to be the foundation of a water purification system, the existing well was expanded to meet these needs. Cost – $15,000.
In rural Guatemala, wood is used for fuel for cooking on stoves and wood-burning ovens. Over the decades hillsides are barren, causing mudslides and changing the climate. Amigos de Guatemala is working with local villagers to improve the environment by replanting 5,000 fast-growing pine and cypress trees. Fifty families will each receive 100 saplings and be educated to maintain the trees in a healthy and sustainable method by harvesting limbs rather than whole trees. The trees will help fend off erosion and rebalance the local ecosystem. Cost – $3,000 Project details.