GUATEMALA
ME IMPORTAS develops its projects in the Izabal region of Guatemala. It's targeted at children, teenagers and women that live in poverty-stricken rural areas, mainly small villages next to Río Dulce and El Estor.
Our aim is to offer our beneficiaries future opportunities through education, development, job creation and health, fighting against poverty, discrimination and child labour.
Our aim is to offer our beneficiaries future opportunities through education, development, job creation and health, fighting against poverty, discrimination and child labour.
This is why we are developing the following programmes and projects:
Education Programme.
Job Creation Programme.
Disability Programme.
"María Jesús Tamayo Ruiz" Care Centre for Women.
Izabal has a population above 450.000 of which 74% is rural and is distributed in small villages located in the mountains or surroundings of the Río Dulce, or close to Lago Izabal, both important natural resources in the region. The isolation due to the transportation and communication difficulties, the high level of illiteracy of its inhabitants, the lack of job opportunities, and the instability of agricultural work and farming make the rural areas of Izabal, and in general Guatemala, a very scarce, poor area.
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