32 Volcanes
Founded in 2019, 32 Volcanes is a Guatemalan non-profit civil association located in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. However, our history started in the early 1990s when two of our founders, Carmencita and Roney, helped found a non-profit Spanish language school dedicated to improving the wellbeing of Guatemalans in the Western Highlands.
32 Volcanes was launched with established programs and areas of focus thanks to the continued support of two U.S.-based organizations, Foundation Todos Juntos and Timmy Global Health.
Today, 32 Volcanes draws on Carmencita and Roney’s decades of experience to promote community sovereignty and autonomy within our areas of focus. Our current projects include:​​
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32 Volcanes Clinic
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Nutrition Program
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Family Support Center
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Scholarship Program
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Various Agroecological Projects
Mission
Our mission is to build bridges between communities to unify perspectives through collective memory innovative solutions are cultivated for the well-being and dignity of the planet biodiversity and all living creatures.
Vision
We work to attain human rights, social justice, and environmental justice. We seek the collective creation of a sustainable system where scarcity and inequality no longer exist.
Our Goals
a) Pledge to the search for individual and collective wellbeing, in all dimensions of life.
b) Promote the establishment of alliances and networks with national and foreign partners that share the vision and values of the Association
c) Execute research projects on specific topics of health, food sovereignty and nutrition, education, culture-identity, environment, oral tradition-collective memory, migration, and access to art - creation, to support the development of programs based on reliable evidence;
d) Facilitate the access of quality health services to vulnerable populations, through medical conferences, primary care clinics, follow-ups of specific cases with specialised care, preventive health and mental health
f) Promote education in vulnerable strata, through family support centres in communities near the city of Quetzaltenango and scholarships at all levels of the education system
g) Generate spaces for growth and exchange - of experiences and knowledge - with fathers and mothers and former fellows
h) Develop talks, workshops, conferences, publications and communication programs related to the principles and projects of the Association
i) Generate artistic and cultural activities that privilege art as an instrument of knowledge and social transformation, promoting public access to the different artistic manifestations through a bookstore, a space for training workshops, exhibitions, concerts and discussion spaces
j) Raise awareness and support individual and community actions consistent with the emergency caused by climate change and its immediate and long-term consequences, through reforestation, recycling, environmental education and through the production of organic and local resources
k) Manage public and foreign volunteer spaces with cultural relevance, social sensitivity and historical knowledges
l) Claim and disseminate the cultural substance that underlies all the Association's programs
m) Accompany community transformation processes and initiatives of sustainable solutions
n) Promote gender equity as a fundamental principle in community development.