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Perched atop the buried pre-classic Maya city of Chocola, the village of Chocola on the back slopes of the volcanoes that form Lake Atitlan, is poverty stricken yet poised to become a model of cultural celebration and self-sufficiency. What it needs most is leadership training and technical support to develop its potential for diversified agriculture, archeological-tourism, health care for its families and education for its children. In its simplest terms, the mission of Seeds for a Future is to help this impoverished community plan and achieve prosperity based on balanced development principles that protect cultural tradition, the natural environment and preserve the Mayan and post-colonial history of the town. Seeds for a Future traces its roots to the period from 2003 through 2006 when many Earthwatch Institute volunteers came to Chocola to work on the archaeological site, which was then being excavated under license from the Guatemalan government. The volunteers embraced being associated with an important archaeological endeavor and learned about the vast pre-Classic Maya city that may hold keys to the early development of Mayan language, system of time and other fundamental cultural practices. At the same time, many of us fell in love with the community, its families and children and the fabulous, healthy mountain environment. As a result, groups of volunteers organized to help a community struggling with terrible poverty and deprivation to find a way to prosperity without destroying their way of life or the delicate balance of their natural environment. A vision emerged among a core of volunteers, Guatemalan visionaries and local leaders in which Chocola is seen as lifting itself into a more healthy and prosperous community based on its historic farming skills, adding value to its coffee, vegetable and cacao producers and through community cooperative action. In the future, there is great promise for the development of Chocola as a tourist destination based on archaeo-tourism; conservation of the natural resources in which the community is embedded and conservation of one of the first and greatest coffee processing plants (beneficios) established during the 1890s. But we also discovered in the early years that before Chocola could begin to realize its potential, the people needed training in identifying their own vision for the future, learning to work together and acquiring the technical skills needed for success. Overcoming 500 years of economic and social servitude is not easily done, but real progress is being made and our program has been recognized as ground-breaking, by the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and others. Four operating principles guide the work we do: We provide information and technical assistance to the people of Chocola to help them evaluate new opportunities and to plan. We provide direct funding and other forms of support for community requests for assistance on specific projects. These requests must come through Chocola leadership and must demonstrate sustainability and a willingness and capability of the community to provide part of the needed resources. All programs must aim at achieving self-sufficiency. We will help with programs that governmental agencies believe may be of value, provided that they too meet the same test as is noted for the community above. All such requests must be consistent with our mission to help the people and do no harm to either the Maya archaeological site or to the 1890 Coffee Finca site. In all of our programs we try to ensure that the participants become more engaged in the social and civil fabric, that they gain self confidence in their ability to change their own future for the better, and that we provide knowledge and coaching for a sufficient period of time that their activities and new ideas become self-sustaining in the community.

Dedicated to provide primary health care and basic health education to the underserved and impoverished in Cap Haitian and Mombin Crochu.

Enhance the health and general welfare of underserved populations through improved living conditions, health care assistance and educational opportunities.

The organization provides housing, shelter and basic human needs such as food, education, health care and life skills training to abandoned children, desperate victims of disease, war and extreme poverty by supporting better family health care through donated medicine and provided funding for medicine, medical supplies, clothing, orphan care (housing, food, clothing, education and health care) for abandoned children around the world.

Provide basic primary healthcare services to people in rural communities in Nigeria. Health For All holds screening clinics, from which individuals with Hypertension and or Diabetes are identified. Health For All holds monthly clinics and provides diagnosed individuals with monthly supply of medications for Hypertension and Diabetes.

Etta Projects collaborates with communities, creating sustainable solutions to improve health, sanitation and clean water.

TO EMPOWER AND ASSIST THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA THROUGH THE MUTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH SERVICES

Pursue and support projects designed to improve the health and welfare of communities in economically disadvantaged areas in all parts of the world.

To serve as a vehicle to guide and support innovative projects which provide services to low-income individuals and other disadvantaged populations regardless of caste, gender, and religion. To empower develop mentally disabled children through special education, training, care and social integration in order to make them self-reliant and positively contribute to society.

WE PROMOTE EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN RWANDA THROUGH GRANTS TO THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND CHURCH, HUMANITARIAN AID TO THE COMMUNITY, AND MISSIONARY WORK.

Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity has been partnering in Haiti since 2006, empowering communities to build their infrastructure in education, health and sanitation, homes, and businesses.

International Hands in Service (IHS) through Project Salud y Paz provides health, healing, and education with the people of Guatemala leading into a self-sustaining partnership.