Poverty Relief | Guatemala | Helps International

The life you change may be your own.

We're Helps International.

With your support, we're working across Guatemala to break the cycle of poverty with sustainable solutions in agriculture, community development, education, and health care.

Agriculture
Intensive training and microloans help smallholder farmers build the capacity to boost crop production.
Community Development
The ONIL cook stove and water filter create safe homes, sustainable communities and a clean environment.
Education
The Helps primary school and secondary scholarships equip rural students with the skills to succeed.
Health Care
Volunteer medical teams provide life-saving preventive health care, surgery and education in rural areas.

YOUR SUPPORT CHANGES LIVES

2,048

farming families have more disposable income in 2019.

234,860

homes and schools have clean air and water.

475

students have better education and job opportunities.

315,244

patients have received surgery and preventive health care.

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Women Making Tortillas on ONIL Stove

SINCE 1984

Helps International's volunteers and supporters have changed more than a million lives

across Guatemala.

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