Guatemala
Promoting Evidence-Based Approaches to HIV: Our Posters at AIDS 2024
By Paula Rudnicka, Sr. Manager for Public Affairs In July 2024, more than 11,000 people attended AIDS 2024 – the largest gathering on HIV and AIDS in the world. Global Communities and our subsidiary IntraHealth...
Mujeres Empoderadas: Innovaciones en la programación de grupos de ahorro
Mujeres Empoderadas en Guatemala se implementó por primera vez en el año 2012, en Huehuetenango. A partir de entonces se ha vinculado a programas de desarrollo y asistencia humanitaria implementados por Global Communities. A la...
Exploring Health Provider Knowledge of the Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) Concept in Central America
This poster, presented in 2024 at the 25th International AIDS Conference by IntraHealth International – Global Communities’ subsidiary – highlights the results of an exploratory survey about the knowledge and opinions of health providers in...
Promoting Bilingual Education in Multicultural Societies to Enhance Student Literacy
By Leonel Arguello, Director of Integrated School Feeding Programs As a Nicaraguan, I grew up in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual country with a large Indigenous population. English and French were the mandatory languages in...
Cooperative Development (CLEAR+) Program Project Brief
Global Communities’ Cooperative Leadership Engagement Advocacy and Research (CLEAR)+ project (2023-2028), is a USAID funded Cooperative Development Program (CDP) aimed at advocating for the development of worker cooperatives with a focus on youth employment. CLEAR+...
Igniting Children’s Potential, One Bite at a Time: Reflections from the International Food Aid Showcase
By Paula Rudnicka, Sr. Manager for Public Affairs Last month, Global Communities participated in the 2024 International Food Aid Showcase at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The showcase brought together diverse stakeholders representing...
Charting a Safer Future: How Guatemala’s Communities are Preparing for Natural Disasters
The latest Humanitarian Needs Overview estimates that 75% of the Guatemalan population live in areas at risk of extreme weather events. The Central American country is poised to experience hurricanes, tropical storms, landslides and earthquakes...
Reabren los comedores escolares guatemaltecos tras el cierre de COVID-19
Por primera vez en casi cuatro años, vuelven a prepararse comidas escolares en las cocinas de las escuelas guatemaltecas tras su cierre total o parcial a causa de la pandemia de COVID-19. Este es un...
A Holistic Intervention to Overcome Multiple Barriers to Women’s Entrepreneurship in Guatemala
By Mabel Bejerano, Global Technical Advisor for Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups Toribia – a 54-year-old mother of eight from the Western Highlands of Guatemala – has long been a leader in her family, who...