Central America
In Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, we're teaming up with rural communities to help families thrive and make sure no one is forced to leave their home in search of safety and stability.
We’re giving families diverse way to feed themselves and make a living so that they can weather a bad harvest or a tough season.We’re helping families improve their harvests, sell their crops and find other ways to earn a living. And as the threat of climate change looms, we help protect and conserve resources.
When natural disasters, such as hurricanes, devastate entire communities we are there to help them rebuild and recover. We are ensuring families have access to clean water, receive food and hygiene kits, and get psychosocial support. We are also helping families re-grow their harvests by providing them with seeds and training sessions following a disaster.
Families, and children especially, can also rely on our support when a loved one becomes incarcerated. By joining hands with these families, we are advocating for the rights of children, helping them meet their basic needs and ensuring that these families are not left behind.
Our programs focus on bringing people together, sharing knowledge amongst one another and giving communities the tools they need to develop a better life.
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A Blessed Region Receives More Blessings
When we asked farmer, human rights activity and interpreter Nery Brito how he would describe the Ixil region in Guatemala, he said, “Blessed. It is rich in vegetation, diverse and fertile.” Nery is part of a CWS-supported food security and nutrition program, in which he focuses on working with indigenous populations to conserve both their resources and traditions. He told …
Josefa and Rosa’s Initiative Helps 490 Families
Before the sun has shown its first rays of the day in la Pista village, Josefa Pérez is already awake praying. “I ask for the harvest to increase, that this year we have more crops,” says Josefa. That’s why the first thing she does after preparing breakfast and cleaning the house is see her crops of peas, cabbage, broccoli and …
Catarina and Juana: Two women Committed to Their Families and Their Community
Catarina Juarez De Leon and Juana Lopez Garcia are local promoters in a CWS-supported food security and nutrition project in Maya Mam communities in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. A total of 490 families participate. Catarina is a brave single mother who struggles to raise her daughters Luci and Imelda. She completed her primary studies and has been working as a promoter for …