Projects in PROGRESS:
- Strengthening of Intercultural Bilingual Education for Indigenous Peoples in Quiche
- Promotion of socio-professional integration of youth and rural women, through technical training and business consultancy
- Skills development and empowerment of indigenous women and their communities in 3 municipalities of Sololá
- Fostering opportunity for young people studying at elementary level in public establishments of rural Guatemala
FLAGSHIP project:
Guatemala is still beset by major structural poverty which particularly affects the most disadvantaged and remote rural areas. Rural schools are often incomplete with only one teacher who often lacks the necessary skills. In terms of inequalities between boys and girls, Guatemala also has important shortcomings despite the significant progress made in the education of women. Moreover, the illiteracy rate among adults is 31% according to the latest report of the PNUD.
Fundación del Valle supports educational initiatives that help break the cycle of poverty. With this determination, we have made it possible for nearly 4,480 girls and women in the poorest departments to have a decent future.
Projects in PROGRESS (2010-2012)
Strengthening of Intercultural Bilingual Education for Indigenous Peoples in Quiche
- Local Partner: ANDESCO and CNPRE
- No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 5.391 people, 2.892 of them are women
- Financing: AECID
- Grant: € 343.720
- Total cost: € 497.053
What does the project involve?
This project aims to create the conditions for the application of the Intercultural Bilingual Education and Indigenous education in El Quiché, so as to enhance their identity and values the knowledge of the people. It also wants to promote the organization and management education from the worldview and indigenous peoples' rights in grades fourth, fifth and sixth primary and basic education cycle. The project is located in the department of Quiche, located in the northwestern region of the country, one of the most populated regions, where 83.40% of the population is indigenous.
Promotion of socio-professional integration of youth and rural women, through technical training and business consultancy
- Local Partner: FUNDAP
- No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 1,500
- No. of Indirect beneficiaries: 7,500
- Financing: Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
- Grant: € 126.250
- Total cost: € 172,500
What does the project involve?
The project seeks to identify, raise awareness, support in training and provide business advice to women and youth who reside in the departments of San Marcos and Totonicapán, so they can develop or strengthen skills for insertion on self-employed or labor market, specially in their own communities, thereby achieving to provide tools and skills to enable them to access better economic conditions for their families, which can thus access to better services such as education, health and nutrition.
Skills development and empowerment of indigenous women and their communities in 3 municipalities of Sololá
- Local Partner: FIECA
- No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 1,178
- No. of Indirect beneficiaries: 78,000
- Financing: AECID
- Grant: € 300,000
- Total cost: €415,346
What does the project involve?
The empowerment and individual and collective training of the indigenous communities by developing literacy, human rights education (individual and collective), promotion of leadership and citizen participation. The aim was for at least 750 indigenous women from 28 communities to be enrolled in literacy circles and at least 90% to obtain a certificate. In addition, specialists in Leadership, Development, Rights and Citizen Participation have given a number of modules, both to women in literacy and to other community leaders, with the aim of ensuring that indigenous women are involved and are heard in municipal organizations for the effective promotion of their rights
Fostering opportunity for young people studying at elementary level in public establishments of rural Guatemala
- Local Partner: FUNDAP
- No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 1,250
- No. of Indirect beneficiaries: 3,600
- Financing: Obra Social Caja Madrid
- Grant: € 20,000
- Total cost: € 40,663.72
What does the project involve?
To promote the development of skills among young people in rural communities, providing income. This training is conducted with educational workshops, tours and business shows aimed at parents, teachers, school managers and students. The project started conducting various activities raising awareness and providing training to parents, teachers and school managers. Currently immersion courses are being held for young people so they can develop and implement their own productive projects.
FLAGSHIP project
"IXOQ AJCHAK" (Kiché working women, Mayan language). Improving the educational, training and employment opportunities available to girls and young and adult women from rural communities in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango and Sololá.
- Local Partner: FUNDAP
- No. of Direct Beneficiaries: 1,251
- No. of Indirect beneficiaries: 6,255
- Financing: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha
- Grant: € 319,716
- Total cost: € 457,885
What does the project involve?
To improve educational opportunities for girls, training opportunities for young woman and employment opportunities for adult women. This project has improved access to credit for more than a thousand women, organized in 46 communal banks. 800 women have received business training, later providing a multiplier effect in their communities.
social impact
800 women have received business training, providing a subsequent multiplier effect in their communities.
Over one thousand women have gained access to credit, enabling them to start/improve businesses, thanks to the creation of 49 communal banks.
The 12% earned in interest from each one of these banks is given annually to the PEVI programme to finance scholarships for girls. As such, in 2007, scholarships were awarded to 60 girls, and to 75 in 2008, with capacity to award up to 300 scholarships by the end of the project.
Finally, we have managed to improve the employability of 25 young people during the project's implementation through their participation in technical training courses in bakery, beauty and agribusiness.
