Partners

Focus Central America funds small, grassroots organizations that address systemic issues directly. Going beyond providing services, FCA partners are changing their environments to become productive, safe, and thriving communities.

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  • Belize
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • El Salvador
  • Costa Rica
  • Panama

A Better Life Guatemala

Guatemala

Contribute to improve the living conditions of people in poverty by providing basic services and fundamental tools for development.

ACD Guatemala

Guatemala

Creating safe communities, with financial and psychological assistance women need to recover from violence and abuse.

Living Heritage Foundation

Guatemala

To reduce poverty through sustainable community development projects in the Western region of Guatemala.

Agua Para el Pueblo

Honduras

To promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.

ADIT

Guatemala

To build and join integral development processes promoted at the local, departmental and regional levels, simultaneously seeking the development of families.

Bien De Mujer

Costa Rica

Contribute to the empowerment of women and the education of boys and girls to develop their potential, and thus generate harmonious and healthy dynamics in families, which contribute to building a fairer and more equitable world.

Go Jóven

Honduras

Promote leadership capacities on human rights among young people in Honduras so that they can influence public policies on sexual and reproductive rights.

Amigos del Aprendizaje

Costa Rica

Improve learning opportunities for children, motivating them to read and write with purpose, to help reduce school dropout rates, break the cycle of poverty and enable all children to thrive.

Fundación Acción Jóven

Costa Rica

Support young people in contexts of social vulnerability.

Proyecto Abraham

Costa Rica

We are dedicated to transforming the local community by meeting the physical and spiritual needs of both individuals and families through the implementation of five ministry areas

ROBLEALTO

Costa Rica

To care for the children of Costa Rica who are in critical situations and in need of specialized care and integrated services so they are able to reach their full potential

TeenSmart International

Costa Rica

We use online technologies to empower youth to make smart decisions, live healthy lives and contribute to their communities. We are driven by an underlying philosophy of self-care and self-empowerment.

ENLACES

Panama

Transform the lives of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations through the practice of contemporary dance, strengthening their academic development and psychosocial and family support.

Iniciativa de los Derechos de la Mujer

Guatemala

WJI improves the lives of indigenous women and girls through education, access to legal services, and gender-based violence prevention.

Un Mundo

Honduras

To promote dignity, community and self-sufficiency, facilitating access to education, health services and sustainable livelihoods amongst populations with scarce economic resources in the Cangrejal River watershed of northern Honduras.

OYE

Honduras

To create opportunities for young people to empower themselves and transform their lives and the world around them.

ABESUCHI

El Salvador

To provide scholarships to youth in Suchitoto to attend university or technical training.

ALSARE

El Salvador

Provide support those who have been deported from the U.S. back to E.S. Resettlement, emotional support, jobs, etc.

Azul Originario

El Salvador

Youth association working with victims of arbitrary detention, as well as citizenship, productive and culture-art youth initiatives.

CONTEXTOS

El Salvador

Use the power of literary and art education to promote healing and reflection, to foster critical thinking through story telling. we seek to uplift the voices of people affected by trauma.

Voces y Manos

Guatemala

We join together voices and hands to create a healthier, more just world.

Trickle Up

Guatemala

We partner with women in extreme poverty to build economic opportunity and drive inclusion.

FUSAL

El Salvador

Provide early intervention among vulnerable populations. Works with expectant mothers and children ages 0-4

Hogar Fátima

Guatemala

Provides an alternative home to children who have been victims of violence and/or have been abandoned.

Odres Nuevos

Guatemala

Provides care and support to street children and adolescents, so that they have a dignified life through teaching a trade or entrepreneurship, educational scholarships to obtain better job opportunities

PENNAT

Guatemala

Educates boys and girls who work and live in market places, streets, parks, avenues, settlements and rural areas of the department of Chimaltenango, Guatemala.

Tejiendo Futuros

Guatemala

Empowers the community through the Human Rights approach with a gender perspective, to develop concrete actions to change behavior.

WACHALAL

Guatemala

Non-profit clinic focused on water filter distribution, malnutrition programs, and preventative care for members of rural communities.

WINGS

Guatemala

Our programs provide vital health care and education to help families in rural areas thrive

ADISA

Guatemala

To assist, defend and further the rights of people with disabilities. We envision an outcome where persons with disabilities and the community are brought together on an equal basis

Proyecto Vida

Guatemala

Faith-based organization that responds to the reality of the presence of HIV in the South West of Guatemala

DORCAS

El Salvador

Believes that for the construction of a better world, it is essential to create spaces that allow children, adolescents, and youth to be strengthened in socio-emotional skills, self-esteem, and personality.

CRIPDES

El Salvador

Develops educational processes to strengthen community structures, through programs for women, youth, organization and incidence, care, and protection of the environment.

Calidad de Vida

Honduras

Works to ensure that women and girls live a life free of violence, through coordinated actions.

Asociación Andar

Honduras

Promotes and human development of people living in poverty, especially in rural areas of the country, by coordinated actions.

Cooperativa Junam Q’ab’ R.L.

Guatemala

Cooperative of young Mayan Ixiles and K'iches who are dedicated to the transformation and commercialization of honey and its related products.

COFAMIPRO

Honduras

Provide support to families who have lost a loved one in the journey to the United States through the migratory route.

Muchas Más

El Salvador

Facilitate access to education for Salvadorian girls and young women so that they can pursue higher education in their area of choice.

Fundación Coatepeque

El Salvador

Non-profit organization, non religious and apolitical, formed by people committed with the restoration, recovery, protection and preservation of the Basin of Lake Coatepeque.

Migueleños en Acción

El Salvador

Committed association, building relationships with institutions, private enterprise and volunteer training for the institutionalization of citizen participation in decision-making in cultural heritage, environmental and tourism projects.

AJUBI

El Salvador

Association of young people, who decided to join together to contribute positively to our society and make it fairer and more humane.

Grupo Guinopeño Ambientalista

Honduras

Its mission is to maximize the benefit of the natural, social and economic resources available to families and organizations in communities in Yauyupe and Maraita in southern Honduras.

AMOS

Nicaragua

It is dedicated to reducing preventable deaths and improving the health and well-being of people suffering from unjust conditions of poverty.

New Sun Road

Guatemala

Through Peaceworks. Accelerate energy and internet access for under-served communities around the world, in collaboration with industry, government, nonprofit and academic partners.

La Esperanza Granada

Nicaragua

Through The Institute for Central American Studies. La Esperanza Granada is a non-profit organization working to improve education and educational access.

ASAPROSAR

El Salvador

Dynamic organization with programs focused on an integral approach to health.

Asociación Inhijambria

Nicaragua

Through PEACEWORKS. We work so that children and youth at high social risk, achieve a better lifestyle, dignified and in family harmony, providing them with educational tools and comprehensive care.

FEDICAMP

Nicaragua

Through PEACEWORKS. It implements a comprehensive plan for the greening of watersheds in northern Nicaragua, fighting deforestation, promoting biodiversity, conserving water and improving the nutrition of families.

FCAM

Costa Rica

Feminist organization that works for a Central America where girls, women, trans and non-binary people actively participate in the construction of favorable environments for their lives and the lives of other people and communities.

CEDCAS

Costa Rica

Preventive and educational approach, dedicated to the promotion of integral community health by supporting the work of community groups organized by women.

Tierra Nueva

Guatemala

Development and service organization dedicated to strengthen the knowledge and skills of individuals, families and communities to be generators of change, according to the social, political, economic and cultural reality of the country.

AMEDIPK

Guatemala

The association's main lines of action are: Organizational Social Development, Forestry and Agricultural Development and Productive Economic Development.

FUNDAHMER

El Salvador

We support community initiatives to transform the conditions of poverty, exclusion and marginalization of populations in the areas of Morazán, La Libertad, Colón and San Salvador.

Amigos del Lago Atitlan

Guatemala

We fight for the conservation of the Lake Atitlán watershed and the improvement of the quality of life of its inhabitants, promoting and facilitating sanitation and environmental education projects.

Asociación de Retornados Guatemaltecos

Guatemala

We provide personalized primary care upon arrival and post-arrival to returned migrants.

Puerta de Esperanza

Guatemala

We are generators of positive changes within the population, through education and inclusion.

CIRCULA

Guatemala

Facilitate the transformation of leaders willing to grow personally and professionally in order to increase their impact in Central America.

Nueva Esperanza Río Negro

Guatemala

Our processes generate socioeconomic, environmental, cultural and political development that impact the quality of life of impoverished/rural/urban families and communities in Las Verapace.

Peronia Adolescente

Guatemala

We believe that through art, games and creativity, young people create a critical consciousness of their reality and develop the tools to transform the political, social and economic reality of their country.

Yo'o Guatemala

Guatemala

Our vision is to create educational opportunities and holistic development for rural populations, with contextualized adaptable programs resulting in immediate, positive change.

Comunidad La Esperanza

Guatemala

The actions are especially focused on children and young people at risk, due to working conditions -as in the case of child workers at the municipal dump-, extreme poverty and family disintegration.

EPRODEP

Guatemala

Founded with the interest of promoting a new model of education linked to the integral development of the locality, in response to the detection of gaps and failures in the work approach of public and private schools.

Asociación Niños de Montaña

Honduras

To support the strengthening of health, education and development in society and above all to strengthen spiritual values in children and families.

FUNDAMUNI

El Salvador

Assist in participatory activities with local communities. Some of the activities include violence prevention focused on working with young people at risk of joining violent groups, local economic development and territorial competitiveness, development of social infrastructure, etc.

Chispa Project

Honduras

Spark a culture of reading through student access to books. Support educators to engage creatively. Facilitate intercultural exchange through service.

Proyecto Social Orquestal Uremu

Honduras

To provide a suitable music education program so that the children and adolescents of our country have a tool capable of replacing inappropriate activities that harm their integral development and allow them to improve their quality of life.

Casa Esperanza

Panama

To offer development opportunities to children and adolescents living in poverty, especially those identified as child laborers and their families.

Árboles de Justicia

Honduras

Dedicated to the rehabilitation and reintegration of people living on the streets, homeless and at social risk.

CONEXION

El Salvador

Promote the use, application and appropriation of digital technologies for the social and economic development of society, seeking to reduce the digital divide to achieve a more egalitarian society in access to technology.

ACMM

El Salvador

Strengthen capacities in the community systems of the Department of Morazán, to seek the development and self-sustainability of families in the search for a better quality of life.

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Asociación Las Hormigas

Honduras

To encourage women's capacity to assert their rights, promoting their equal participation in different areas: social and economic, from their immediate environment. and economic

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EDUCATE

Honduras

We believe that impact is a cycle. Our work aims to set in motion a cyclical process of impact based on three key themes: learn, lead and grow.

Segundo Montes

El Salvador

Promoting the human capacities of women and men in sectors such as agriculture, entrepreneurship, in the defense of human rights, soil conservation works, among others. Department of Morazán, Meanguera.

Enlaces Nicaraguenses

Costa Rica

Promote and develop capacities and opportunities for the social and full integration of Nicaraguan migrants and their families in CR, contributing to the construction of a binational space.

Leer para Soñar

El Salvador

Group of young women from El Salvador that works to defend the rights of children, adolescents and women through socio-educational processes that humanize, sensitize and empower to generate spaces free of violence.

SERSO Honduras

Honduras

Non-profit organization in the Municipality of Jutiapa dedicated to improving the conditions of violence.

Bayan Honduras

Honduras

Non-profit organization created in 1987 by two families, the Smiths and the Sabripours, driven by the desire to contribute to social and economic development through the practice of universal spiritual principles.

CODIMCA

Honduras

They fight for justice, equality, equity and women's human rights.

Educate2envision

Honduras

They equip rural youth in Latin America with the secondary education, leadership skills, and resources

Reportar sin Miedo

Honduras

A legally constituted non-profit journalistic organization based in Honduras that is dedicated to verifying facts, investigating and combating false news through investigative journalism and current affairs.

Red COIPRODEN

Honduras

Organization formed by organizations that work for the welfare of children, adolescents and youth in Honduras.

COMPALCIHT

Nicaragua

Promotes sustainable community development in urban and rural neighborhoods in Tipitapa, Nicaragua. It encourages the active participation of parents and caregivers, educators, students, rural youth, civil society groups and municipal officials.

Voces Vitales

Panama

Non-profit NGO, which encourages women's participation and promotes their education, health and equal access to opportunities, in order to achieve a profound social transformation.

Fundación Unidos por la Niñez

Panama

Protection and promotion of the rights of children and adolescents through different educational, psychotherapeutic and training programs aimed at children, families, schools and the community.

FUMOLIJUP

Panama

Cooperativist philosophy and leadership, based on ideas, principles, and basic norms that regulate and guide the behavior and activities of individuals, constituting the ideological climate and general framework of values for the practice of cooperativism.

Asociación Nuevos Horizontes

Panama

To defend, fight for and watch over the Human Rights and welfare of the GLBTI population.

Enseña por Panamá

Panama

To ensure that all children and young people achieve their goals and improve their quality of life and that of their communities through quality education.

Biblioteca Comunitaria Rija’tzuul Na’ooj

Guatemala

A place of discovery of knowledge and ideas, we inspire a different future for the community!

Asociación Ticos y Nicas

Costa Rica

Association of people of multiple nationalities who seek to promote fellowship between the peoples of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Dale una Mano

Costa Rica

Young leaders, volunteers, and agents of change who seek to be a leading youth development and action organization that impacts and transforms CR through service and solidarity.

FUNPRES

El Salvador

Research, develop, innovate and implement alternative educational and psychological solutions with an inclusive social approach, using scientific knowledge management to contribute to the development of a comprehensive and integrated society.

PADECOMSM

El Salvador

Organization focused on local economic development and environmental management, which promotes economic initiatives through capacity building and partnerships.

Acción Honduras

Honduras

Social organization that believes in equal opportunities and promotes the strengthening of local development from a rights-based approach.

Red Asistencial HOPE

El Salvador

To attend to the needs of the most vulnerable communities, with hope and compassion; to transform their lifestyle through the model of Jesus Christ.

Amor es Acción

El Salvador

Preventing violence through systemic work with vulnerable youths.

There are currently no partners in this country.