ERICK TORRES 3rd Spor Generation Guatemala - Tanzania I will begin by telling you about my family, we are 10 people in total, each of my brothers are already married and with their families and my parents live on their own, therefore we no longer live together, but when we all lived together something we enjoyed doing as a family was cooking, especially on Sundays we used to cook seafood since we all enjoy them. Even now, we meet for a nice lunch every once in a while, and have fun. The family dynamic has been always good, we have always been good with each other. I started to study kinder garden when my parents worked as principals of an orphanage in Villa Nueva, Guatemala City. Then my parents finished their work at this orphanage and went to live in the neighboring town of San Miguel Petapa, that’s when I study middle school. The year after finishing high school, I started at the University of San Carlos studying advertising for 3 years. When I was in elementary school, the last thing I liked was that it was very quiet and introverted, I do not really like the idea of being with other 25 children in a classroom five days a week, but then time pasted and began to socialize better and liking school, as is normal in any child. What I liked about the school were the years in high school and university years, where I met most of the people I consider my real friends until today.
The university, in particular, opened my mind and gave me other views on the global reality in which we live, I met very interesting people, who were engaged in different activities and very passionate about life. I do not think I can say how far I have come academically, as one is always growing intellectually if you taken the time to read, study, research and practice; so I think every day we learn new things that are forming us, and not necessarily are learned from a university or a school. It was in my college years, when through a conversation online with a friend from the University where she, who did her internship at Fundated, told me about the open call for a cultural exchange program that she was helping to promote in college. She asked me to help her with reviewing the design she had already done editing, when I saw the details for the open call, it caught my attention, at that time I was precisely looking to travel and do something different in my life. What motivated me to show up, first, was my desires, to travel, and then my desire to want to grow professionally in the subjects that interested me at the time, like: environment awareness, Recycling, and Art. I’ve showed up with more questions than expectations, Fundated’s staff always gave me confidence and security, I knew they were a serious organization because of what my friend had told me about them.
At the same time, I was thrilled with the idea of traveling to Africa, I was going to the other side of the planet, I couldn’t imagine how it could be, I just wanted to make things right and go. My arrival at Spor was 2 ½ months before the selection of participants that would travel took place, so since I arrived we were always 3 participants. But when I was selected to go, I was very happy, we’ve done it, we were much closer to the trip. As a participant in the program I always tried to give the best of me, the Spor program requires for you to be professional in what you do, that’s way my one expectative was to make a good turnout, Fundated supported me a lot to develop the project that I ran in Tanzania and that motivated me much more to give my best. What I did and learned it was a lot, because I met people, I learned a third language (Swahili), I met tribes and people of African like the Masai and the Kipare, I was in two continents (Europe and Africa), I lived in a community northern Tanzania which was amazing, there I lived with a local family, knowing their daily lives, worked in a primary school where I developed my art project and recycling, made friends, I tried new food, dancing, playing drums, etc.
Earn the courage to continue doing what I love to do, and what is important for me to do for myself, for the community, for the country, and the world I live in. Gain a lot of personal experience, as well as a professional facilitator. Won a more open and positive mindset, a bigger picture and realize that anything is possible. I lost my fear of trying new things and lost fear of continuing to grow.
Imagine that you get the opportunity to share some of what you love to do, in a country across the world for 5 months, interacting with a portion of the diverse African culture and learning a language never even heard to mention before in your lifetime. That definitely changes your view of what life, people and the world are. This happened to me during and after the trip. I felt that the world was smaller, but my ideas, my desire to live, to share, to learn, and to travel only grew. As we say in Guate (short for “Guatemala�): one thing leads to another; After that project I continued studying topics that I like, I have participated in courses, workshops, etc. Studying and facilitating some issues related to the environment, as well. Then I found the Permaculture at Lake Atitlan and that allowed me to complete my submergens in the world of agriculture, appropriate technologies, ancestral knowledge and seeking to live a minimalist way
and a lot more conscious. My family has always supported me, I think the trip helped to reinforce their confidence in me. Now picture me as a seed. You could say that before the trip I was like a seed ready to begin to germinate, but the seed had no soil or water enough to start the next process towards a more full and free life. I was really itching to travel anywhere outside, I didn’t knew where I wanted to go, or how, or with who, just wanted to travel and explore the world, this was what my intuition told me I had to do to take the next step and then achieve greater things. It was at that moment when life crossed my path with Fundated and its amazing people. Fundated was for me as the soil and water in perfect amounts so that the seed may germinate and begin another stage of development and growth. Since my return I have had the opportunity to participate as facilitator in some departments of Guatemala, always try to find spaces to share what I do. One of the most interesting projects, and I think in my opinion, that contributes to the national community in the projects which I participated after being in SPOR, has been studying and working with Permaculture Institute on Lake Atitlan, where we promote the native plants and native seeds, share workshops on organic farming, appropriate technologies, nutrition, agro-ecology, and seed bank, among others; this with farmers across the country. I have also worked as program coordinator to develop school gardens in 19 schools around Lake Atitlan with over 500 local children. I can define the changes provoked in me the Spor program as a metamorphosis.
DAMARIS TUJAL 4th Spor Generation Guatemala - Norway My family formed by my father, mother and younger sister who is now 2 children and husband. My dad works in construction and agriculture, my mother has a business in the market Patzún, my sister is a music teacher. On weekends we all stay at home together since because of our different activities we’re away from home during the week; we are a very close family. Lately my family has been growing in number with the new members, after the exchange experience we’ve been blessed to have youth from the program as part of the family, my new brothers and nephews both Norwegian and Tanzanian, as well; we are now a large family. I studied my primary and basic in the town of Patzún, Chimaltenango; the class that I really liked my primary class was math and I did not like was the kind of English and now that I like When I was 15 years old I left my community and migrate to the city to study to be a teacher, in 1999 obtained the degree in Household Education Teacher, I loved this profession where I also had the opportunity to obtain a specialty in the area of Food which provides me the opportunity to work in the hotel area. This profession has given me the opportunity to actively work in the social community development area, which has opened several opportunities to keep on learning, and each day has a new opportunity to keep my academic studies, preparing myself to continue the contribution to the emerging of my country. Parallel to my studies in becoming a teacher, I had the opportunity to study to business
administration courses where they gave me the opportunity to participate in different activities being one of the unforgettable one, participating in conferences and Entrepreneurs forums in Mexico, my first experience outside Guatemala. The involvement in the development area has helped me grow personally as well, and see firsthand the needs that families from different communities and been able to help them somehow. In 2005 I found out about the Spor program through the radio ads in PatzĂşn and experiences of the first participants who had returned from their exchange. What motivated my dream to visit other countries and travel the world and different cultures, was after my experience in Mexico, it completely changed my perspective, however feared to risk because at that time had been working for an NGO in Chimaltenango, five years longer, participating in Spor involved great risk of losing my job if I did not qualify. Were mixed feelings, much joy to know that my dream of meeting a new culture would be done while actually much fear of the unknown. I imagine a great challenge being away from home and family, but also something interesting to help me keep growing. My participation was fantastic, definitely a great blessing of God, I had the privilege of working in 3 places: in a volunteer organization learning and assisting in the care of people with social and health problems. In a school as assistant head teacher and also supporting the municipality of Rjukan, and also had the privilege of participating in the making of traditional costumes of Norway for a very famous work Maris Pelet. Gain new experiences, many friends, and especially a fantastika family. I lost the fear of communicating and as days went by hiba my fears losing and gaining blessings.
Definitely the Spor program has been one of the significant bases various changes and achievements in my life as my family and my community, with the blessing of the creator've managed to get involved in various development programs for my community and my country. My personal and professional growth has changed significantly. In Fundated I opened the doors to the educational sector in training children and young people within the communities they support. On issues such as Leadership, Entrepreneurship, community development and values. It was in the same NGO for which I work, before the exchange, where the opportunity to return to work there again gave; I decided to take this opportunity, however, this time was different, the position allowed me to get involved as an honorary member of that institution prior recognition of the work he had done, and still currently underway in communities. It was two years after being elected an honorary member when I give vice president of the board, since which actively exercised for two years. Today I was re-elected as Treasurer of the Foundation which has over 50 years experience at national and international level. On the other hand, I personally looked for opportunities where it can provide support to the needy around me. In this work I have managed to develop and implement projects for housing construction, health and education with the support of the above organizations and support of my family and close friends. These experiences have also made me enterprising and continue to achieve my dreams.
JULIO URIZAR 5th Spor Generation Guatemala - Tanzania My family and I have always lived together in Totonicapan’s down town. At least as far as my older siblings were single, who currently live each one on their own with their families. I’m the third of four brothers. My dad worked a lifetime in the hardware store, the business that he inherited from my grandfather. Currently he sells contruction materials. My mom works with him. Actually I have a conservative family, with ideals, beliefs and lifestyles that involve being middle class and Guatemalan, but that has not stopped us, although sometimes is difficult, and openness of mind to the contemporary dynamics. A very important person in my house is my nana, pillar of operation inside our home. K’che woman who raised us; my younger brother and me since childhood and who have absorbed very important life lessons. She’s my mom’s best friend and for me is like my second mother. My older brother is a doctor and he lives in the capital, is father of two sons; the second of my brothers works with my father in the business and he’s also married and has two children. the youngest is going to college and he still lives at home. I studied primary education in a little school of Totonicapan. Later I finished primary, and I started secondary education in a private school in Quetzaltenango, because my parents always thought that education outside Totonicapan is better, I don’t know how true or not it could be. I had the opportunity to go directly to college after high school at my 17 years in 2008. I’m one of the minorities of Guatemalans who have the opportunity to access into private education. I decided to study literature, even against all o the bad wishes upon the little field of work that would mean in the future; I
think it was a spontaneous decision and somewhat naive but always authentic because I felt attracted to reading and culture. Since childhood i was surrounding myself with books, this was weird because there were not many in my house. My parents and aunts supported me and that was enough. I lived in Guatemala city for five years to study at college. I also once dreamed of being a writer. shortly after entering college I realized that even, to my knowledge, there is no course that will teach one to write, is a personal work that requires dedication, but certainly having studied Literature made me have a broader and more critical vision of my reality, which has me now working in cultural platforms. I graduated this 2014. I knew about SPOR Program one day walking at the college and thanks to a poster that had some pictures of the two previous phases of SPOR who had been in Tanzania. I was closing curricula, and immediately wrote an email and called. They told me a date and hour for a briefing, I went, met FUNDATED and I stayed. I was curious and i had nothing to lose by finding out. I think what caught my attention was the fact that it was a cultural exchange between young people related to community work, which I had never participated but it had always been very close to live in Totonicapan. And the fact that it was in Africa made it interesting. People often think that these opportunities are only directed towards northern countries . When I arrived there were only three participants. I immediately went to a preselected group who remained together until almost the end of it. I knew it would be full of learning process, but I thought it of an easier way. Actually it is a challenging process, especially when you faced with your own fears. That doesn’t mean it isn’t fun and you never fills of friends. but it isn’t easy. I went through a preparatory course, exchange and work to return that led me to face and overcome many personal walls and work with close contact with other people in Guatemala and Tanzania. I think that’s the
most valuable thing because I learned to form a community wherever I go. The exchange was a flood of intense experiences that left me teaching me how different people can connect and I can be kind of agent that contributes to generation theses meeting, so necessary in a present and a fragmented and unjust society like mine. Personally it helped me to mature in many facets of my life. Familiarly it granted me the opportunity to project confidence and break with traditional schemes that get to do much damage. Socially I became involved in social work and took me to be aware of the reality of my country. Academic and professionally I could implement innovative ways through education and cultural management my knowledge, especially when it is believed that literature doesn’t come from books. Today I hace a personal project related to all these issues, which was developed during my SPOR experience, and I hope that over the years can I grow and leave positive footprints in the lives of many people. I used to be very insecure and fearful of disapproval from others. Also, I don’t dare to undertake projects I had in mind. During the exchange I was gaining confidence in myself. Upon return I noticed a change in how I relate to others and how I assumed other challenges and changes that came into my life in a positive way. I broke many personal oxidized structures, family and my environment while I was in Africa, working in a school with children artists and having fun. I decided to be myself. I have been working and learning a lot of the cultural mediation process and artistic mediation. I currently work in a cultural institution where I am in charge of the dynamics of approach between art and people, where art can function as a generator of critical thinking and imagination. I hope to take the best of these experiences and use it in personal projects that i have in a future.
FEBE EJCALON 16th Spor Generation Guatemala - Norway I’ll begin by telling you a little about my family and current history. My mom died when I was one week old, when I was 5 years old my father remarried and I, since then, lived with my grandparents. Currently I live in Mixco (in Guatemala city) with one of my sisters, whose name is Ingrid, our daily activities are working, attending church and studying, on our free time we enjoy going to the movies or visit our relatives back in Patzún. I started studying when I was 5 years old; to after middle school I got my high school degree in computer science with a commercial orientation, I thank God that now I’m on the third semester at the University in order to get a degree in Business Administration. What I like the most about studying is meeting new people, getting to learn new things and sharing time with my friends. I heard about the Spor program through people who were part of this cultural exchange program at some point, and who also were in charge of a project called GYPI at FUNDATED. I was encourage to participate because I saw the opportunity to fulfill one of my dreams, to travel abroad and become part of Spor. This was a platform to show my abilities as a leader and get enough learning to develop as a professional. As you can imagine when I knew I was one of the chosen ones I was joyful, nervous, very positive and fearful at the same time. During the preparatory course I always imagined my passing through would be, despite the obstacles faced, with enthusiasm and constant.
Spor was the greatest challenge that I got through, and thanks to this experience I learned to trust myself and be stronger to get up after every fall in life. I gained courage to live and the love of many people in the host country. It also taught me not to be afraid to pursue my dreams and try as many times as necessary to achieve the objective. At a personal level, the exchange program, taught me to have a positive mind in every test of life. Regarding my relationship with my Guatemalan family I was able to improve the communication with them. In social aspect, I got better job opportunities. And, academically I strengthened my desire to not give up my dream of being a great business woman. The process before, during and after I would describe it as follows: Before Spor my life was quite dynamic as part of Youth Power and Scout, Fundated projects where we conducted many activities for the development of our people, most of the time I spent it in them. During the preparatory course my life took a turn becoming more active because every second take the advantage and to give the best of me and to prove that the work I was doing was a reflection of my efforts. Being in Norway I was a very pleased for the nice relationship I build with my
Norwegian family, I learned a lot from each of them. I also faced challenges every day, because of the different cultures and languages, which contributed to my personal growth. And when I returned, it was very exciting experience to share what I achieved with my family and friends; I could teach them what I learned during my volunteer work. However, I had to face new challenges on my return, starting to become further independent, this exited me a lot.
I deeply appreciate the Spor program because it helped me "Believe in me" even though others do not, and, at the same time, it was the most welcome change that I can see in my own life. The program helped me interact better in society, to be a leader if the situation required it, enrich my interest in learning to accept and correct my mistakes and put into service my values. After the cultural exchange program I decided to be part of the working field, so I began the search for a job; In 2012, after three months of searching, I managed to be on the staff of an NGO whose focus is in sponsorship programs, my first placement was as a social developer, focusing 90% of my work on field work with families of the beneficiaries, making important briefings on the program and moderating workshops on child rights and obligations, and a reforestation project for the protection and livelihoods of the environment, among other social problems. The remaining 10% of my work was administrative approach, as a correspondent, photograph, filing and financial. A year wet by working in such a prestigious foundation, they trusted me to lead the correspondent unit. This post is mostly administrative as it focuses on creating a source of communication between the beneficiary and the sponsor; I thank God that I still have today, under my responsibility, that department. This experience has varied greatly from what I’ve been previously involved, and I've learned a lot from families who I thought was going to teach them, when in reality was them who made me thir student; I am proud because I know that part of my education was given at Fundated, which created an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. I am delighted to be Spor because each of us in living a large footprint wherever we go.
RAUL TELEGUARIO 20th Spor Generation Guatemala - Norway It is a pleasure for me to start this story telling you about my family. We are eight people in my family. My dad, my mom, my two older brothers, a sister in law, my two nephews, and I. My dad is a bricklayer, my mom is a housewife, and my older brother is married. He has two children who I love very much. My second brother is an electrician and my sister in law is a housewife too. I am the youngest of the family; I am a middle school teacher and I actually work as a teacher. We’re a very close family. Even though we’ve had our problems, we’re very supportive of each other. We don’t get out a lot but when we do I get very happy. One of the activities I really like doing, and my family and I yearn for, is when we go to the coast. We have relatives in the south coast of Guatemala and every New Year’s celebration we go there to visit them. We have a lot of fun because we go to the beach, share with the whole family, and spend a lot of time together. We also do a lot of things that we keep in our hearts. Regarding my studies; I began to study when I was six years old but in that year my mother took me out of school. My mother said that she did it because I used to cry a lot at school and I used to bother my brother who was studying there too. That’s what I’ve been told, but the next year I started the elementary school for six years. After the elementary school I started the secondary school for three more years. I finished the junior high school and the next year I was supposed to start the high school but the bad conditions that my family and I were living was really sad. My parents couldn’t afford paying for my studies. That was in 2009. So, I decided to work and save some money to continue my studies the year after that.
Since I was a child, I used to dream that I was going to be a teacher, and I used to work in a school with a lot of children so it wasn’t hard to choose what I wanted to become because I knew what I wanted. One of my dreams started to come true. It wasn’t easy; it was really hard, not only for me, but also for my parents because they were still supporting me to achieve my dream, which was to was to become a teacher. The years went by and in 2012 my dream came true. I did it, I became a teacher. The last day of high school was very good because I got my diploma where it stated my new profession.
I got to know the Spor program because in 2008 I was part of one of FUNDATED’s youth program. In that year one of the Spor generations that was in Norway came to this program to tell us about their experience and all the things they did there. Since that moment I told myself that I wanted that, I wanted to go there too, It sounded very interesting, and I don’t know how I would get there, but I knew I was going to do it. That was how I got to know the program. I had the motivation since then, because they said that the experience changes your life, you see your life in a different way, and you are not the same person. So I told my parents about this new chance to grow as a person and they said: “Yes, go ahead, do it! We will support you and everything that you want to do, you have our permission!” My expectations were lower of all what the program really is. I never thought it was going to be so difficult to go to Norway and being one of the four finalists. When I saw a lot of young people looking for the same opportunity as me, I told myself: “this must not be simple, Raúl, put a lot of effort and fight for your spot, help the others but help yourself too” and I did it like that. I made a promise to myself: I was going to be one of the finalists. I was really nervous when Fundatd started to say the names of those who were going to be the new generation of Spor, because I was the second to last to be called. So, when they said: “Congratulation guys, you are the preselected group who will start with the preparatory course to select the final
group” I almost jump of happiness but I didn’t. I was just happy and grateful with God. The thoughts that I had about been responsible and an attitude of a fighter allowed be to not be confident all the time and always prove more and better things of what I showed them the day before, without fear of being wrong. I think my participation was good in different ways: First of all, this process made me more responsible, to see beyond of what I had in front of me, to be more conscious, to say what’s on my mind, to speak freely, and many things that were the beginning of a new life as a person.
Second, the five months in Norway I learned to be myself, not to leave aside my principles, my values and everything I learned at home because I was representing not only my country, but myself, my family and my town too. Every day was an opportunity to learn something.
Third, on my return to Guatemala I work as a volunteer at Fundated’s project as a teacher. The project was about “learning disabilities”. I learned . a lot from this project because the project focused on kids and I love to work with kids so I really enjoyed it after what I experienced during the exchange I remember this before I left Norway: “My country is waiting for me, as well as my family and friends. They hope to see a change in my life”. Of course I have changed in some aspects but I continue to be the same Raul, humble, who fights every day to live my present, and get a new future. Another thing that changed in me was in focusing on what I really want, not being a person who thinks only himself, but also in others.
After all my exchange I found out what I now want to study at the university. I also learned to live my present, learn from the past and wait for the good and bad things that the future will bring to my life. On previews years, at one of Fundated’s youth programs, they helped me in some aspects of my life by teaching me to “Take decisions, resolve conflicts, feel first, think about what I want to do and/or say, before acting” these aspects were very important for my life. All what I learned in the preparatory course helped me the moment I placed a foot in the airport on my way to Norway. The biggest challenge was the language because I didn’t know how to speak English, I didn’t know how to hold a conversation, I just knew some sentences, expressions and vocabulary. I was a little bit afraid and nervous when we arrived to Holland, because not that many people spoke Spanish. We got to emigration and police officers were asking a lot of questions that I couldn’t understand on that moment. So I think that was the worst moment I ever lived in my life. I didn’t know how to answer, not even my friends, so I used my body language because that was the only solution I could see at that moment. Fortunately we understood each other. What I can see on this is that I learned to find an immediate solution, to know that there is, always, a solution for every single thing in daily life, in one way or another.
The challenge I encounter with the language barrier was the same when I arrived to Norway. The time went by and every day I used to learn a new word so as you can see now, I couldn´t write all of what I have written here. That was another, very important, thing I learned. When I came back to Guatemala, the motivation to change my life and help others was strong. I worked as a volunteer helping special need kids; I realized that I love to work with kids but with people my own age too. After my exchange, Fundated gave me the opportunity to work with them in the project I worked during my volunteer work, a tutoring center. I see this work as something that I really enjoy doing because as I said before: I love to work with kids and this project helps many children in my home town, Patzún, to improve their school average. If I help kids with special needs it means that I am supporting the schools to be more developed in Patzún. I can say that the program was an opportunity to believe in myself, to know that if I want something I have to fight for it until I get it, to know that there is nothing that stops me to achieve my dreams. Everything is possible because God is always with me.
FROM “YOUTH VS.ENTREPRENEURSHIP” TO “YOUTH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP” (BREAKING PARADIGMS) By Mario Julio Salazar Managing Director of FUNDATED
In Guatemala’s society, the opportunities where youth can be involved on the way to the social development that the country needs, has been practically null. The national history has been marked by different situations that diminish that youth can be a link side on the main decision in their family and community. Social phenomenon such as paternalism, that has been instilled generationally, has had likewise a predominant role in all actions that limiting the actions of the Guatemalan youth. It isn’t easy to understand in consequence, that the dreams are not reached in Guatemala. FUNDATED, was raised to take advantage of the spaces that could be given to go changing those social paradigms that discriminate and at the same time exclude the energy that youth can give in the search of solutions of the main communitarian problems that, at the same time, are limiting their opportunities of a better quality of life that the offered by a failed State, such as the Guatemalan State.
In this line of thought, the exchange program SPOR, and specifically in the preparatory course that the Guatemalan youth have before they begin their cultural exchange to Norway and Tanzania, was proposed to be able to be a personal growth space, encouraging in each participant the necessary motivation to be active agents of the changes needed . Being a “Factory of reachable dreams” it ceased to be a utopia to become a reality. The process of breaking the paradigm of “the youth is the tomorrow of a nation”, for the one of “the youth is the present of a country” hasn’t been easy. Guatemala has been characterized for being a nation that limits the dreams, because simply and merely, these cannot become true in a polarized, exclusionary and repressed society. However, in the exercise of the SPOR preparatory course, this is nothing but a fallacy. Being an entrepreneur derives from being a dreamer. Every young person dreams with a personal development on an integrated way. In that way of continual growth, is not put aside the premise that also are growing, at the same time, the people, closer to the
one who dream with be a successful person in life. The family and the community are reached by the success or failure that a young person experience in his/her life, something that many times is transmitted from generation to generation, becoming it even a community culture or tradition. The awakening of entrepreneurship on the Guatemalan participants of SPOR is a main objective to FUNDATED. On many years on the exercise of this principle, it have been reached (and developing) different vocations that generate, at the same time, that other people are beneficiated by the experience of participating in a cultural exchange to countries like Norway and Tanzania. The SPOR experiences of each participant doesn’t end when they return to Guatemala, far from that, is in that moment that the experience reached the maximum level putting to the service of the community where the participant belongs, all that amount of knowledge acquired living in a culture and society totally different to the own. This “social devolution process” that the Guatemalan participants do in favor of “Their own” is accompanied by a backup based in the trust of being an entrepreneur for materialize his/her dreams on realities. Objectively, these realities are transformed on own organizations/enterprises that each participant was created during the preparatory course, and made work
during his/her exchange and reach the initial maturity for developing social projects in communities that have a lack of solutions to its main problematic in an innovative, binding and participative way to all the level of his/her society. We can quote many generations of the Guatemalan SPOR participants, but we will focus on the most recent. The new phase of the Cultural Exchange Program (Phase 24), carries in their luggage 8 new organizations that goes from nonprofit entities that want to attend, with no lucrative expectations, the lack of education and health in their communities; to small lucrative enterprises with high Corporate Social Responsibility that want to generate employment that helps to create all those opportunities in, that their own country has vetoed, respecting all resource available, mainly, the natural resources exploited during the last years. Going from “youth vs. entrepreneurship” to “youth and entrepreneurship” is not more than to have the will to want to make a change, to want to make that all the dreams be a reality and transformed in development opportunities in favor of many and not just one or a few. The SPOR Exchange Program is by itself a dream made into a reality that has transformed the life of many people in 3 countries. Before examples like this, is impossible not wanting to tell a young person that the entrepreneur is not the way to change but that is the change that opens the ways!
LETTO ENTERPRISE VISION “Being a recognized organization, that promotes development of our customers national and international level, as well as promoting progress of communities living in poverty in our country through recyclables and care of the environment " MISSION We are a Guatemalan organization lucrative nature that provides consulting services, counseling and training, to contribute to improved competitiveness of the administrative processes of our customers to achievesatisfy their needs" VALUES • Respect: Be tolerant with our customers and partners. • Responsibility: We promote good practice in our work. • Commitment: We met our work to the satisfaction of our customers. • Honesty: We work with the truth. • Timeliness: We deliver the work in due time. GENERAL OBJECTIVE Create a portfolio of businesses of new and existing customers, providing effective customer service to achieve the objectives of the companies. As well as awareness of businesses working with policies for environmental preservation SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Use tools and efficient techniques innovative in the administrative area for the development of our clients. Provide personalized service for each customer exceeding customer expectations. Having a corporate social responsibility contributing to environmental protection.
WISE GRANDPARENTS FOUNDATION VISION Being the best organization in the Guatemalan territory, covering the largest percentage of seniors within our various projects, being primarily responsible for the reintegration and respect the elderly in society. MISSION Caring for the elderly with professional ethics where the values of the organization are translated into daily work, so the development is ongoing, constructive, involving other institutions can learn more about these people and contribute to its insertion. VALUES
Respect Love Tolerance Solidarity Responsibility
GENERAL OBJECTIVES Cover addition to the basic needs of housing, health and nutrition, other personal and occupational therapy, psychology, counseling and motivational workshops to improve the quality of life of the beneficiary. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Providing access to the sites of care of the elderly. Actively involve the beneficiary according to his abilities, in our various daily activities. Create bonding for possible reintegration with family. Discover manual activities hat benefit can perform, with the canal so you can generate a substantial income for their benefit. Relate other institutions and/or educational establishments with our organization so they can collaborate and donate voluntarily in our various projects attention.
FUNDAJU
Youth Development Foundation of Guatemala
VISION Is Being an organization that implements development projects for young people, and creating opportunities for social reintegration MISSION we are an nonprofit organization formed by young people committed with our country to generate changes against marginalization, discrimination and violence, through projects of education, arts and sports. . VALUES solidarity commitment Respect Dedication Honesty GENERAL OBJECTIVE Create various youth movements through social, educational, artistic and sportsprojects for the reintegration of youth into society. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Motivate young people to participate in leading art, education and sportprojects to diverse communities. Encourage young people in communities to get involved in social reintegration projects. Consolidate art, sports and education projects in different communities.
MATIOX FOUNDATION VISION Be the best organization in the rural area of Guatemalan territory in constant development in terms of handicrafts, crafts and traditional fabrics that provides the opportunity for economic and social development of women and youth. MISSION Constantly working with disadvantaged women and youth giving to show the potential of each in crafts, crafts and traditional fabrics achieving their economic and social reintegration VALUES - Responsibility - Solidarity - Perseverance - Appreciation - Honesty GENERAL OBJECTIVE Establish methods of teaching women and rural youth learning in a work activity for the benefit of each. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES - Create opportunities for access to a market so they can sell everything created. - Facilitate learning via a job where they can achieve personal growth. - Create space where they can express something from them and Guatemala in their creations.
SOCIPIT ENTERPRISE VISION be the space of work that promotes personal fulfillment and development of our employees, innovating design in all its possibilities, allowing to be recognized as a, solid and professional human quality and ethical principles that provides services and products of excellence to their customers. MISSION Be a company who sees to help people through training in different areas of design, where each person can obtain new knowledge and skills that will open new job opportunities and at the same time, achieve and maintain leadership in our company’s market promoting innovation in all its possibilities. VALUES • Responsibility • Harmony • Commitment • Innovation OVERALL OBJECTIVE May the employees achieve to implement the necessary knowledge at the moment of publicizing their potential as an employment opportunity and achieve to implement them in their daily lives. • • •
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Apply all the tools, the rules and security measures for the development of our product. Provide job opportunities for outstanding young in the preparatory course. Provide opportunities in the area of design through training to young people.
COBA ENTERPRISE
VISION In 2017, being a company recognized within Centralamerica advisory resolution and analysis of business problems and / or individuals in all those areas corresponding to the numbers. MISSION We are dedicated to advising and consulting on problems commonly have businesses and individuals that can be solved through proper use of numbers in general through sessions where the specific needs of each client are addressed. VALUES
punctuality respect responsibility creativity honesty
GENERAL PURPOSE Provide advice and consultancy to customers on common problems through proper use of numbers. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 1. Analyze the problem of venture through observation and counting information. 2. Design a mathematical model through which one can resolve the different situations presented by the client personalized and creative way. 3. Evaluate the solutions with the client to determine the most viable through presentations and reports.
LEARNING CENTER LITTLE BIG STEPS
VISION Being the institution with the highest academic recognition and trust nationwide training based on our values and our only form of education that sets you apart. MISSION All children of our institution are taught with passion and love, working to make them competitive and enterprising young people whose training is based on values and principles that help them achieve wholeness in every area of your life.
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VALUES Love: For all you do for most small. Passion: For achieve and defend their dreams. Respect: for themselves and for others. Equality: Because everyone is equal no one worth more or less. Solidarity: Leaning all so you have an equal. Dedication: To keep the value and meaning having your goal.
GENERAL PURPOSE Encourage children; in a dynamic way; with passion, dedication and love we can make each of our goals, prioritizing respect for others.
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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES To instill core values for the institution. Show that they are able to achieve all that is proposed with the dedication. Indicate that they must uphold their dreams face of adversity. Provide dynamic and creative classes.
EDUVOZ ACADEMY VISION Being a professional organization nationally recognized for providing the necessary tools and resources that help the development of communication and education. MISSION To train professionals of high human quality that affects the various fields of communication and education in the rural population. VALUES • • • • •
Responsibility Excellence Respect Passion Service
GENERAL PURPOSE Provide the population processes that enable people to have growth in communication and education. • • • •
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Provide advice in conducting social, cultural and political events. Educate people about the importance of education through communication. Provide a service that builds trust and customer satisfaction. Be available twenty four hours a day for any services required.