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Asociación AMA – Guatemala
The Safe Futures program, implemented by Asociación AMA in the municipalities of Poptún, San Luis, and Dolores, Petén, Guatemala, seeks to empower pregnant adolescents and young mothers through a comprehensive training approach so they can fully exercise their rights.
Throughout 2025, 8 interactive sessions helped 198 participants strengthen key skills in areas such as mental health, adapted exercise, and financial education. To ensure inclusive participation, the sessions were held directly in the communities and included translation into the Maya Q’eqchi’ language.
This made it possible for participants to fully understand the information and express their ideas and feelings with ease. To support the full participation of pregnant adolescents and young mothers in their empowerment process, the program also offers childcare services. In 2025, 197 girls and boys were cared for, allowing their mothers to take part in the training without distractions.
In addition to directly benefiting the young women, the program also engages their family support networks, which may include partners, mothers, sisters, mothers-in-law, aunts, and others. In 2025, this made it possible to reach 125 members of participants’ support networks, helping create a more favorable, supportive, and safe environment for their personal development.
This strategic partnership aims to ensure that pregnant adolescents and young mothers can fully exercise their rights while improving their physical and economic well-being. In Safe Futures, sports are used as a tool for social change and are specifically adapted to the physical needs of participants. These adaptations help make physical activity an integral part of their well-being, while respecting their health condition and stage of motherhood.
Through the economic empowerment component, participants receive information and practical tools to strengthen their financial knowledge, along with small seed capital grants that provide opportunities to improve their personal and family economic conditions.
As a result, during 2025, 72 young mothers formed 9 poultry production groups, 8 applied for scholarships for sewing and tailoring courses, and 6 more connected to scholarship opportunities to continue their studies.
So far in 2026, Asociación AMA has reached 85 pregnant adolescents and young mothers from 9 communities in San Luis, Petén, who, after completing the life skills curriculum, will begin their path toward economic empowerment.