Organizations
Athentikos works with the following Organizations in Guatemala:
Strategy of Transformation
http://estrategiadetransformacion.com
Athentikos partners with Strategy of Transformation in Guatemala to provide training, resources and assistance to people in need. Strategy of Transformation seeks to develop communities of transformational leaders who serve in difficult places among marginalized people. Shorty and Tita who are featured in ‘Reparando’ are members of this organization.
Lemonade International
Lemonade International is a US-based non-profit community development organization that works in partnership with local Guatemalan leaders to educate and empower people in the largest urban slum in Central America – La Limonada in Guatemala City.
Christian Reformed World Missions
Christian Reformed World Missions supports over 200 long-term and short-term missionaries located in over 20 countries around the world. Through partnerships, their work extends to over 30 countries. CRWM is deeply committed to making a difference in Guatemala.
Bethany Christian Services
Bethany Christian Services is the nation’s largest adoption agency, and we also care for women facing unplanned pregnancies and orphans living on five continents. We are called to care for children of all ages and in all stages of life. We serve children at conception by counseling women with unplanned pregnancies and by providing frozen embryos a chance for a full life through our embryo adoption program. Our commitment extends to children and teens who are living in foster care or in orphanages—children who need a “forever family.”
Potter’s House Association International
http://www.pottershouse.org.gt
provides holistic opportunities for scavenger families by equipping them to be able to develop and transform their lives, families, and community.
ASSIST: To offer humanitarian aid and assistance to those who cannot help themselves, especially the children and the elderly
DEVELOP: To equip the Treasures to develop and become confident, competent, and self-sustaining
EMPOWER: To provide resources for the Treasures to participate in the solution to their personal, familial, communal, and national problems
Center For Transforming Mission
http://www.ctmnet.org
Center For Transforming Mission exists to Develop communities of grassroots leaders to serve high-risk youth and families in hard places.
CTM recognizes the most powerful and renewable resource in high-risk communities resides within the communities themselves – the web of people, relationships and institutions that sustain the life of the community. The critical need is to recognize, network and train indigenous leaders to activate these resources in a way that is sustainable.
Unfortunately, the leaders who are closest to the needs are often overlooked and overwhelmed. They do not receive the encouragement or training they deserve. As a result, high-risk communities are vulnerable to well-meaning but unsustainable solutions that are artificially imposed from the outside. Solutions that are not owned and led by the communities themselves suffer along with the people. They fail to experience transformation from the inside out. Therefore, CTM is committed to offering affordable and accessible training that inspires and equips indigenous leaders to be agents of transformation in the context of chronic poverty and violence.
Casa Bernabe
FUNPRONI is a civil, non profit organization, legally established, to provide Christian homes for orphaned, abandoned, or handicapped children, and for children in danger of physical or sexual abuse. This is accomplished through adoptive families, foster homes, and short and long term residence at Casa Bernabé.
Kairos School
http://kairoschristianschool.org/
Kairos Christian School began as a dream many years ago as Linda and Antonio Garcia served in the highlands of Guatemala during the long civil war. The dream started to come into reality more than five years ago when the Garcia family started the first Saturday Feeding Program for impoverished children in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala. Finally, on February 2nd, 2009, Kairos Christian School came into existence. The school offers first through fourth grade high quality private education at almost no cost to the children and can only do so through the generosity of donors from around the world.