GUATEMALA INTERVIDA ASSOCIATION

1. GUATEMALA INTERVIDA ASSOCIATION

2. ABOUT US • We are a development organization that operates since 1996. Our methodology consists of long-term development in various sectors carried out by multidisciplinary teams. • We respect the indigenous culture and thus promote its sustainability through communal participation.

3. OUR VISON • We aim to allow millions of people who have long been marginalized to access the material and intellectual development to which they have been entitled.

4. MISSION • We are an institution that provides material and human resources along with the necessary knowledge for underprivileged populations so that they may overcome their situation, through an endogenous development model. • Our activities are based on the criteria of participation, the respect for local cultures, integrity, and sustainability. • On a long-term, we seek to generate a positive synergy with the people, in order that they acquire the skills to address the issues that affect them. These skills, therefore, enable them to obtain an adequate capital to reimburse their basic needs and generate a profit.

5. WHO WE SERVE • We support the poorest rural populations, mostly indigenous people from the western highlands of Guatemala. • We covered 61 municipalities in 6 West highland departments, serving around 1,820 schools and 1,715 benefiting communities annually • We invest 335,000 directly for the children and thus, indirectly to their families.

6. WHERE WE ARE • Colotenango and Democracia in Huehuetenango, • Tejutla Ixchiguan, Concepción Tutuapa and San Marcos in San Marcos, • Quetzaltenango and Huitán in Quetzaltenango • Totonicapán and Momostenang in Totonicapán • Nahualá and Xejuyup in Solola • Joyabaj in Quiché.

7. Intervida Intervention Programs • IEducational Quality Improvement Maternal and Pediatric Health Management • Support active learning Maintining health programs • Encourage people to remain in school Promoting of food security • Community Involvement • Infrastructure Improvement • Care for people with learning disabilities • College Intervida Business Community Development • Quetzaltenango San Mateo School Craft, Service and Industrial Production • Development • San Mateo Las Lagunas School Strengthening Business Development • Development of agricultural production • Promotion of Cultural Diversity Risk Management • Encourage culture and community recreation Handling risks and contingencies • Create and rehabilitate of cultural spaces for recreation • Transverse axis • Infrastructures for Production, Education and the Community • Gender and environmental awareness • Risk Management and intercultural relations

8. Institutional Intervention inDepartment of San Marcos is: Part 1 • Municipality Assisted Schools Students Teachers • Ixchiguan 32 5184 160 • Tajumulco. 41 6.659 223 • Sibinal 16 2.684 84 • Ojetenam 25 4.008 123 San Marcos 31 4.498 182 • San Pedro 53 9.004 304 • San Antonio 19 3.921 114 • San Cristóbal Cucho 14 3.347 104 • Esquipulas Palo Gordo 13 2.195 73

9. Institutional Intervention inDepartment of San Marcos is: Part 2 • Municipality Assisted Schools Student Teachers • Rio Blanco 9 1.513 62 • San Lorenzo 18 2.645 103 • San Marcos 1 547 18 • Comitancillo 61 14.947 464 • Tejutla 62 7.826 285 • Sipacapa 25 3.961 129 • San Miguel Ixtahuacan 49 10.629 299 • Concepción Tutuapa 68 15.692 432 • Total 537 99,260 3,159 This means that the total of 335,000 children served per year, 29% were seen in San Marcos.

10. SUBJECT COVERAGE • Health Sector • Education Sector • Sector Production, environment and natural resources. • Culture Sector Transverse axis: • Community Organization • Community Infrastructure: Productive and Educational • Bilingualism • Interculturalism • Gender equity

11. Health Sector • Intervida has prioritized preventive health. Firstly, it seeks to provide every child and his family with deworming medication( for internal and external use) and vitamin supplements. • We have also offered protective treatments for oral health through the distribution of dental cleaning kit and the fluoridation of water sources. We have established Drinking Water Community Services as to encourage environmental sanitation in order to reduce gastrointestinal diseases, among other maladies. • Remedial health has been made available through medical and dentistry campaigns, carried out with mobile units that allow suitable coverage for the most remote communities. • As an important component to the project, Intervida has emphasized local community staff training. Midwives and local developers have been provided with medical kits and educated to serve as agent multipliers to improve the hygienic practices in family homes. Concerning mothers and children, medical care units offer regular clinical attention during pregnancy and after childbirth. The mother and the child are examined in terms of BMI to secure their proper growth. • We have appreciated the use of traditional medicinal plants and the practice of alternative therapeutic methods to better fit the community.

12. Health Sector Dental Medical Campaigns School Deworming Vaccination Campaign Fluoridation School Campaign

13. Production Sector • The production sector has directed its programs to serve two types of beneficiaries: • Subsistence subjects: Their purpose is food security. They seek to ensure the production and improvement of agricultural foods (corn, beans, soybeans, amaranth). • We have encouraged the implementation of family gardens for vegetables and legumes. These allow crop diversification and the introduction of enhanced species to the production of animal food products. Other family projects include improved housing and mustering activities involving birds, fish, bees, rabbits. In addition, we have launched a training program to demonstrate the best way to prepare the foods as to maximize its nutrients.

14. 2. Surplus Producers: Their work has focused on projects such as: • Agriculture - raising non-traditional crops in open fields, micro greenhouses, and tunnels. • Livestock – the keeping of fish, poultry, swine, and cattle. Several groups are trained for joint negotiation concerning production in order to get best prices. We have encouraged trade shows and business conferences to create networks for the joint input purchase, post harvest management, processing and storage. • Empowerment and legalization for group producers through technical community organization. For example, in Quipambé, ASADIT Association of Tejutla Barbecue, San Marcos. • Another focus is the diversification of occupational labors using agro-industrial activities and post harvest processing, producing good such as jams and sausages. • Another alternative that has driven production is the cultivation of base products from medicinal plants, such as aloe vera shampoo, syrups, dyes and other goods. Suchi is the case of the Association Buena Vista of Eden, in Comitancillo, San Marcos.

15. Environment and Natural Resources • One of the priorities of the Intervida Association, regarding this field, has been the conservation of the environment. • Environmental awareness has been developed within those communities that benefited from the water and sanitation services that Intervida has built. • Along with other undertaken projects, ecological activities have been implemented. These include: the conservation and management of soil, afforestation, nursing water springs, training in solid waste management, recycling, taking care of the forest… • This has encouraged the replanting of appropriate species, as well as the implementation of construction measure stoves that save firewood.

16. Production Sector

17. Education • In our area of operation has been supported annually 1.820 specifically schools and 537 in 17 municipalities of the highlands of San Marcos department, benefiting students and 99.760, 3.159 teachers with the provision of equipment and supplies, and textiles. • Has been built and / or improving school infrastructure consisting classrooms, toilets, school kitchens, circulation perimeter, sports courts, equipping classrooms and libraries. • In coordination with the Ministry of Education has worked in the theme of improving the curriculum through review and updating, implementing active and participatory methodologies and educational places, creation of new teaching materials for enhance the character and creativity of children and has provided training teachers in methodologies updates teaching.

18. Another important aspect is to support underprivileged children with economic fellowships enabling them to attend school and reduce in directly way the child labor. • Intervida has two Schools that attend children that come from rural low-income areas San Mateo/Quetzaltenango and the departmental capital of San Marcos. Schools to be considered as models, they use the shared active methodology to teachers from schools national. These schools have music rooms, English and Computing as a special addition to the official curriculum.

19. Education Schools for needy children School Infrastructure Providing school supplies Methodology, Teaching corners