Where We Work
Countries
Guatemala
In the early ‘60s Guatemala erupted into the longest-standing civil war in Central America. By the time the Peace Accords were signed in 1996, an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people had been killed. 100,000 people are still missing, and 70,000 families were displaced. UNICEF estimates that the people of Guatemala suffer from a 90-percent poverty rate, with 65 percent living in extreme poverty. View Map
Mexico
The state of Oaxaca borders the states of Guerrero and Puebla, to the north; the states of Chiapas and Veracruz to the east; and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Oaxaca is the poorest state in the Mexican Union. In the southern state of Oaxaca the category of extreme poverty encompasses 75 percent of its 3.4 million residents, according to EDUCA, an education and development organization. 53% of the total indigenous population in Mexico lives in Oaxaca. There is less than 1 doctor for every 1,000 people in the state and virtually no hearing impaired services for the poor. Less than 30 percent of Oaxaqueños have access to health care—a crisis that is visible on the front steps of the state’s seven hospitals. Approximately 150,000 Oaxacans migrate to the North every year (to the USA and northern Mexico) Remittances are the third source of income for Oaxaca, after tourism and coffee.
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