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ProWorld Partners
Effective relationships are crucial to the success of every project and program experience. From these relationships ProWorld builds partnerships. This section contains information about a few of the many ProWorld partnerships.
Affiliations Golden Key International Honour Society
Golden Key International Honour Society is the world's premier collegiate honor society with more than 1.8 million members across the globe. ProWorld is pleased to be an exclusive partner with Golden Key and provider of study and volunteer abroad programs.
International Volunteer Programs Association
IVPA is an alliance of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations that are involved in international volunteer and internship exchanges, encouraging excellence and responsibility in the field of international volunteerism.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
NAFSA is an association of individuals worldwide advancing international education and exchange. It serves its members, their institutions and organizations, and others engaged in international education and exchange and global workforce development.
Work, Internships and Volunteering Abroad:
The purpose of the NAFSA Subcommittee WIVA is to focus on programs that provide international educational experiences in working, interning and volunteering abroad. The WIVA Subcommittee meets annually at the NAFSA national conference. Themes include outcomes assessment, best practices, data collection, research, resources for advisers and administrators, and articulating linkages between international educational experiences and international careers.
Latin American Studies Association:
LASA is the largest professional Association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. Its mission is to foster intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas, promote the interests of its diverse membership, and encourage civic engagement through network building and public debate.
Association of Academic Programs in Latin American and the Caribbean:
AAPLAC facilitates and supports programming among Latin American, Caribbean and US institutions of higher learning and organizations dedicated to the promotion of cross-cultural, academic-based experiences. The Association helps initiate and sustain communication among these institutions and the peoples of the region.
SEE Companies:
SEE Companies' mission is to set the highest standards of SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL and ETHICAL (SEE) corporate policy and practice, empower people in making purchasing, employment and investment decisions based on SEE criteria, and build the business case for adopting credible SEE policies and practices. The SEE Stamp is accredited only to companies prepared to undergo the most comprehensive and public examination of SEE business activities in existence.
Bardoli Global, Inc.
Bardoli Global, Inc. (BG) provides international education and leadership development opportunities for African American, Latino, and Native American high school and college students so they may become servant leaders committed to global impact. Ultimately, BG seeks to build a united cadre of globally-versed and professionally-skilled change agents from these backgrounds to serve local, national, and global communities from the highest levels of all sectors of society.
ProWorld Fund:
The ProWorld Fund is a separate registered 501 c(3) entity created to further support the project efforts of the in-country non profit organizations ProBelize, ProMexico and ProPeru. The ProWorld Fund raises funds that are sent directly to onsite projects. With this support, ProBelize, ProMexico, and ProPeru aim to accomplish even larger projects and increase the scholarship awards available to volunteers. For donation information, please visit the ProWorld Fund page.
US Partners
Rutgers UniversityJoin Rutgers University in Mexico this summer for 4 weeks. Earn 3 credits of Spanish and 3 credits of Service-Learning. Explore Zapotec ruins, live with a local family, and immerse yourself in the culture. Apply through Rutgers.
University of Pittsburgh
Every May, The University of Pittsburgh and ProPeru join forces to offer a one month program in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Past projects have included the construction of community centers and schools.
New York University
NYU Alternative Breaks built an extra classroom for a school of 130 children that had only 4 classrooms. They also helped with general maintenance projects on the school including: building doors; fences; fixing the class room furniture; and painting.
NYU's Steinhardt and Martin Luther King Jr. scholars worked on health care and environmental projects. The 143 students and deans installed over 200 cleaner burning stoves, planted over 6,000 trees, treated over 800 patients and built 3 lavatories for schools
Wilfrid Laurier University
Students from Wilfrid Laurier worked on school maintenance for a special education school in Zimitlan. Their work included painting, construction, and general maintenance. The school – directed by psychologist Odon Martinez – works with children with auditory, visual, motor and mental disabilities up to 6th grade. Many of the children are not capable of learning to read or write.
Laurier's Students Offering Support (SOS) helped to build a school and establish a computer lab at another school giving their time, supplies and money to communities around Cayo, Belize.
Rice University
Rice University students will be working on a health project partnering with Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, an organization that works with amaranth promotion, and with SSA Health Clinic.
Volunteers will promote nutrition and benefits of amaranth to groups of women, along with making health promotion murals, home visits, and conducting patient surveys to gather health backgrounds.
Princeton Review
We are proud to have the exceptional ProPeru programs listed in the monthly Princeton Review newsletter.
The Peace Corps and More: 120 ways to travel and work in a foreign country
The unique ProWorld Programs are listed as volunteer, work, and study abroad opportunities in this important publication.
We are very happy to be working closely with GoAbroad.com to help share our programs with participants throughout North America. Visit our listings on this comprehensive site of study abroad opportunities
Gapyear.com We are very happy to be working closely with Gapyear.com to help share our programs with participants in the UK and Europe. Visit our listings on this comprehensive site of gapyear opportunities. StudyAbroad.com
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The Directory of Education for students of all ages Locally, ProPeru, ProBelize, and ProMexico collaborate on development projects with a number of organizations; concentrating in three areas: health, environment and social and economic development. The following is a list of some of our partners and a short synopsis of the work they are doing.
ProPeru Partners
Jacksonville University
ProPeru and Jacksonville have formed a relationship to provide accredited high quality education and service learning programs. Jacksonville approves ProPeru’s selection of professors from Centro Bartolome de las Casas who instruct the Study Abroad classes.
CBC - Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolome de Las Casas
The primary focus of this affiliated NGO is to study and evaluate the current status of provinces and communities in a focused effort to create effective strategic development plans for the area of focus. The CBC also houses the largest library in Southern Peru.Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization is the regional office of the U.N.’s World Health Organization. PAHO’s director called for the leaders of governments, institutions and organizations throughout the Americas to respond with a united front to health and environmental problems throughout the hemisphere and world.
In 2007, PAHO studied cleaner burning stoves in the Cusco Region and decided to use ProPeru’s stove model as part of their work in Quispicanchis Province. ProPeru sold 1400 stoves to PAHO and conducted a training session with PAHO members to install the stoves. ProPeru hopes to install another 700 stoves with PAHO by the middle of 2008.
Potters for Peace
Potters for Peace is a U.S. based nonprofit, a network of potters, educators, technicians, supporters, and volunteers. Founded in Nicaragua in 1986, they work primarily in Central America although our water filter projects are worldwide. PFP is a unique organization devoted to socially responsible development and grass roots accompaniment among potters. Potters for Peace’s mission is to offer support, solidarity and friendship to developing world potters; assist with appropriate technologies sustained using local skills and materials; help preserve cultural traditions; and assist in marketing locally, regionally and internationally
Every day 5,000 children die due to unsanitary water (WHO 2005). Since 1998 Potters for Peace has traveled the world teaching the fabrication of a low-cost ceramic water filter, helping to bring clean, potable water to those who need it most. In 2008, Potters for Peace began working with ProPeru Service Corps to develop our own ceramic water filter.
Municipal Goverments
ProPeru often collaborates with local municipalities to deliver services and projects to communities throughout the Sacred Valley and the greater Cusco area. By sharing funds, resources, and personnel, we are able to reach more people and provide communities with greater assistance.
Most recently, ProPeru has teamed up with the municipalities of Urubamba, Maras, Chinchero, Lares, Calca, and Ancahuasi to build classrooms and school bathrooms, install cleaner burning stoves, plant trees, and provide free medical attention and medicine to the local populations.
MINSA
The Ministry of Health (MINSA) opened in Urubamba in 1995. It was created to improve the state of reproductive health of the population, to reach an adequate quality of life, and to initiate human development. MINSA’s main goals are disseminating preventive medicine, educating the public on local health issues, and offering free and low cost services to the poor. In Cusco, ProPeru works in collaboration with MINSA in four health posts that serve the basic health needs of the poorest cross-section of the local population.ProPeru often collaborates with local municipalities to deliver services and projects to communities throughout the Sacred Valley and the greater Cusco area. By sharing funds, resources, and personnel, we are able to reach more people and provide communities with greater assistance.
Most recently, ProPeru has teamed up with the municipalities of Urubamba, Maras, Chinchero, Lares, Calca, and Ancahuasi to build classrooms and school bathrooms, install cleaner burning stoves, plant trees, and provide free medical attention and medicine to the local populations.
MINSA
Centro Obstetrico “Mujer Sana”
The Centro Obstetrico “Mujer Sana” is a non-governmental organization that promotes social change through a focus on promotion, assistance, and prevention activities to improve the integrated reproductive health for women and adolescents. Mujer Sana implements medical campaigns, sexual education workshops for women and adolescents, and specialized trainings for juvenile and adult health promoters.
Arariwa
Arariwa is a Peruvian NGO working in Cusco and the Sacred Valley in a variety of social projects. Arariwa is broken into three different sectors of work, micro business consulting and development, adult education and training, and leadership development. Arariwa’s mission is to contribute to the growth of the capacities and rights of the regional population, to make possible the participation of the citizen majority, the better management of resources, the integration of the major sectors in growth processes, with the objective of sustainable development.
Rotary International Club
Rotary is an international organization integrated with business and professional leaders that offer humanitarian services, encourage the practice of elevated ethical norms in all occupations and contributes to the development of goodwill and world peace. Rotary Club International has a prolonged trajectory of helping the needy and uniting people of distinct beliefs and cultures. Rotary International Club of Cusco has assisted ProPeru in channeling important economic funds for our Clean Burning Stove Project in the Sacred Valley.
Haku Trek
Haku Treks is a specialist trek and eco-tourism travel agency that was founded in 2004. The company was set up in conjunction with the local Chicón community and the staff and volunteers at ProPeru. The overriding goal of the Haku Treks, and the Chicón project, is to reinvest any profits back into the Chicón community. In order to protect the endangered plants and trees, a percentage of every trek payment is guaranteed towards the reforestation and conservation of the area.
K'anchay Wasi
K’anchay Wasi, which means House of Light in Quechua, is a women and family center in Arin, Huandar that provides refuge and assistance for women and children in need. Its vision is to facilitate the recuperation of disadvantaged, abandoned and abused women and therefore, improve the lives and opportunities of their children and community; to promote education in order to improve the quality of life in the community and to increase job resources by helping to create micro-businesses run by the women of the shelter. It's mission is to support the women suffering from domestic violence through legal aid, access to healthcare, psychological therapy and exercises and mainly through economic support and job creation and also, to provide education in diverse subjects in order to improve the quality of life in the community as a whole.
Mantay
Mantay shelters teenage mothers from the Cusco area. Many of these mothers might otherwise have abandoned their babies due to lack of support, or simply being overwhelmed and under prepared for the experience. The purpose of the home is to give the mothers another option by teaching them about childcare and the realities of motherhood. Mantay, which means mother in Quechua, also has a small workshop where the mothers produce artisan products. The skills they learn in the workshop can help them to find work outside the shelter, and the products created can be sold to raise a little money for the upkeep and running of the home. ProPeru is also currently financing and overseeing the building of a bigger and independent workshop for the shelter.Condor Travel
Condor Travel, a South American Tourist Agency, teamed up with ProPeru and the community of Misminay through Condor Travel’s responsible travel program. ProPeru, Misminay, and Condor Travel installed 25 cleaner burning stoves in the community in March of 2008 with the help of ProPeru volunteers, Misminay community members, and Condor Travel staff.
This is just the first program teaming ProPeru and Condor Travel. We plan to install more stoves in interested communities and also hope to install water filters and conduct public health campaigns with the help of Condor Travel.
ProMexico Partners
Estancia Fraternidad
Estancia Fraternidad is a place for families to stay when family members are in the general hospital nearby. This hospital hosts Oaxaca’s poorest patients who have no funds to cover their expenses and patients are often not admitted unless there is a family member who can help in their care. Estancia provides quality room and board at affordable prices along with access to medicine to anyone in need.
Clinica del Pueblo (Ann Seethaler Medical Clinic)
Clinica del Pueblo opened its doors in 1998 in the barrio of San Martin Mexicapan. It provides health services to the most marginalized populations of Oaxaca. They provide all of their services at very low costs, and do not turn away patients who are unable to pay. They are currently working to expand their services to be able to further help the poor of Oaxaca.
INEA
Instituto Nacional de la Educación de los Adultos, is a national organization that runs literacy campaigns. They train educators and provide them with materials to go into smaller communities and initiate programs to educate adults.
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The school is located in the villages Zimatlan and works with children with various disabilities. The students, with various degrees of difficulty in visual, audio, cognitive or motor skills, come from as far as two hours away so as to get the special attention they would otherwise go without. The school looks for specific skills that can be taught to the children so as to empower them to earn a living.
CORAL
The Centro Oaxaqueño de Rehabilitación de Audición y Lenguaje, A.C. offers hearing-impaired children and adults living in extreme poverty the gift of a brighter future by providing a full range of low-cost hearing rehabilitative services and programs.
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria promotes the use of amaranth, a traditional grain, through workshops. These workshops explain the nutritional importance of amaranth and provide the fundamentals of how to plant, grow, harvest, and cook with it. Puente also promotes good nutritional practices.
Frente Común Contra el SIDA
Frente Comun provides AIDS talks in schools, workplaces and indigenous communities. They have developed an interactive AIDS Education Packet which is distributed to rural populations throughout Oaxaca. They also distribute posters and fliers with information about AIDS prevention. Their office sells low cost condoms and also distributes free information.
MexFam
MexFam is a non-profit organization that focuses on health education and in particular reproductive health. They have had a strong presence throughout Mexico since their beginnings in the 1960's with 20 clinics throughout Mexico. These clinics provide both specialized and family medicine services to Oaxacans of limited resources.
Grupo de apoyo para la educación de la mujer
GAEM is a non-governmental group of women creating educational opportunities and shared common experiences through which women gain alternative perspectives of themselves, their roles at home, at work, and in the community. GAEM’s mission is to support women and their families in their struggle for economic and social justice.
Centro de Estudios de la Mujer y la Familia
CEMYF is an organization that works on diverse issues of women’s health, reproductive issues and domestic violence. Much of their work involves seeking to find grants from various national and international foundations to fund local initiatives. During parts of the year they give talks in rural villages of the central valleys.
Union de Museos Comunitarios
A non-governmental organization of eighteen indigenous and mestizo communities in the State of Oaxaca, which have created or are in the process of creating community museums. In addition to providing a foundation for these communities to collect and document their cultural heritage, the Union provides the basis for community organization and helps spearhead development projects.
Cooperativa Vida Nueva
A cooperative comprised of Zapotec women dedicated to weaving tapetes, or traditional rugs, in the village of Teotitlan del Valle—about 25 kilometers outside of Oaxaca. The cooperative has offered these women a social network and political leverage to lead independent self-determined lives and to gain important rights.
Casa Hogar para Ancianos “Los Tamayo”
Casa Hogar is a home for the elderly. Its objectives are to offer quality physical, mental and social services to the elderly that have been either abandoned or do not have the resources to support themselves. The home guarantees security to its inhabitants while working to secure for them the highest level of autonomy and auto sufficiency and the opportunity to a healthy environment where they can live with dignity.
Instituto de la Naturaleza y Sociedad Oaxaqueña
INSO was formed in 1991 to support collaborative and autonomous efforts in natural conservation and social well-being. Their work combines the following: exploring new theoretical approaches to conservation, researching nature-society relationships, carrying out concrete actions to recreate and promote alternative technologies, and combining traditional systems of knowledge and organization with science and modern techniques.
El Jardin Etnobotanico de Oaxaca
El Jardin occupies the courtyard of the stunning Ex-Convent Santo Domingo in the city's center. The garden and adjoining library serve as a laboratory for scholars, a classroom for environmental education and awareness initiatives, a venue for expositions and cultural events, and a park for the enjoyment of Oaxaqueños and tourists.CALPULLI
Located in a poverty-stricken area, CALPULLI is a center to support children that have particular learning challenges. Most of these children are semi-abandoned, children of single mothers or children of parents who have migrated to the United States or other parts of Mexico.
The center assists the kids to improve their learning in basic subjects with a fun attitude towards learning. Participants have the opportunity to teach computer, mathematic, science, or English classes and to also interact with the children in after school and summer programs.
Fuentes Libres
Fuentes Libres is a microfinance organization that mainly supports women. It was founded to help women realize that they can contribute economically to their families. The organization gives small loans to groups of women, teaching them how to save, handle money, and repay their debts.
Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conversación de la Naturaleza (FOCN)
This association was founded to protect the rich biodiversity and ecosystems that are in Oaxaca through sustainable scientific and traditional knowledge.
Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA Clínicas)
This is the public healthcare system for citizens who are generally the poorest in Oaxaca and do not have health insurance. There is a main hospital located in the city of Oaxaca and numerous clinics scattered through the state providing various clinical and health education services.
Centro de Aprendizaje
Centro de Aprendizaje seeks to provide young children and adolescents who have just migrated from the countryside to the city with free tutoring in Science, Math, English, and Computer classes.
Due to the economic situation within the rural areas the majority of students who migrate to the urban center are not prepared for classes in the city schools. Many are far behind their urban student counterparts, and are in desperate need of extra help and tutoring services.
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