Educate 200 Children in Guatemala City

Summary

Children living with foster families in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City will be provided with funds for their schooling, food, group counseling, vocational training, and medical care. project reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $445 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In the shantytowns of Guatemala City, many children are abandoned or lose their parents to HIV/AIDS and poverty-related illnesses. They often end up living on the streets, exploited by gangs and prostitution rings. ISMU is a joint effort of 17 neighborhood organizations in Guatemala City. ISMU’s Youth Program helps send at least 200 children to school each year and enables them to safely stay in their home communities.

Activities

Children enrolled in the program will receive tuition fees, psychological counseling, medical care, and, for older teens, vocational training and job placement. Food supplies will be given to the most disadvantaged families enrolled in the program.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $445

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $445 .  The original project funding goal was $8,592.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

All children in the program are supported through high school or university. They are encouraged to become leaders within their neighborhood association to contribute positively to the betterment of their neighborhood.

Project Message

Some of the children who started in this program 15 years ago are now nurses and teachers. It is wonderful how just a little support can make a huge difference in someone’s life.
- Elvira Sanchez Toscano, General Coordinator of ISMU

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gillian Wilson
IDEX Latin America Program Director
IDEX
827 Valencia Street, #101
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
415-824-8384
Email:

Project Sponsor

International Development Exchange (IDEX)

Organization

Institute for Overcoming Urban Misery (ISMU)
IDEX 827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, California 94110
United States
415-824-8384
http://www.idex.org/ismuhtml

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in GuatemalaGuatemala and can also be found under EducationEducation.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 7, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

July 2009 Update

By Gillian Wilson - Communications Director, July 07, 2009 10:33 PM

ISMU’s latest update is about the 102 elementary and secondary school students (the other students supported by this project are at the tertiary or pre-primary level) who were identified by ISMU members as at risk for dropping out of school because of their extreme poverty and/or difficult family situations.

ISMU staff and community leaders together conducted a needs assessment with each student and their family. They used this to design an intervention for each student, including health-related, material and emotional support services as needed.

In order to qualify for the program, the students and their parents/guardians are required to participate in monthly workshops at the ISMU office. Transportation costs are covered by ISMU. Topics so far have included: self-esteem and self-care, team-building exercises, reproductive health and the prevention of infectious diseases, career planning and how to improve study habits.

ISMU staff met regularly with the parents/guardians and with the teachers to review their quarterly grade and identify areas where the students need further support. Of the 102 participants, over 90 are expected to be promoted to the next grade in December.

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