Pueblo a Pueblo works to improve access to health care, education, and sustainable livelihoods in rural coffee-growing communities on Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán.

Our threefold approach:

COMMUNITY-BASED We build our projects at the community level based on the interests and priorities of our community partners.
CAPACITY-BUILDING We foster local leadership and equip project partners with the skills, tools, and knowledge they need to build sustainable change in their communities.
DATA-DRIVEN We conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation of each of our projects to measure and maximize our impact.

Each of our projects is designed to encourage community buy-in and prevent dependence on Pueblo a Pueblo support. Our projects provide community partners with specialized training as well as the initial materials—all the tools they need to launch their initiative and sustain their efforts far beyond the end of the project cycle.

Our project partners face the complex effects of poverty on a daily basis. We believe the best way to support them is with integrated support across our three focus areas: health, education, and livelihood. Many of our projects in fact address more than one of these areas at once.

Our work takes place across four program areas.

The Women’s Right to Health program improves women's health by facilitating access to medical services and health education.
The Child Education Support program promotes access to a quality primary school education for local students.
The School Health and Nutrition program promotes healthy habits and educational spaces for primary school students.
The Sustainable Livelihoods program equips individuals to pursue greater economic stability through income diversification.

Women receiving training on sewing

Beekeepers in San Pablo during their first harvest

Sponsored students receive school supplies at the start of the year

Mothers receiving a training

Youth Leadership group in Panabaj

Students at a School Nutrition project training

Students with harvest from their organic school garden

The Coffeelands foundation is proud to have been a part of their primary education scholarship project, maternal and child health project, and organic school gardening project.

In 2015 the Coffeelands Foundation was able to make a grant of $500 to Pueblo a Pueblo. The grant went toward the purchase of a honey extractor for their Beekeeping project as part of their Sustainable Livelihoods program.