Three pillars.
One vision.
International Esperanza Project strengthens communities in Latin America from the inside, out, partnering to create impact through lasting improvements to homes, healthcare, and education — so everyone can realize the future they hope for.
Strengthening communities, from the inside out.
We don't import a solution. We partner with families and local leaders to invest in the foundations of daily life — the home where a child grows up, the clinic where her grandmother gets care, the school where she learns to read.
When those three foundations hold, everything else a community wants to build has somewhere stable to stand.
Three programs. One community-first model.
Each pillar is its own program — its own teams, its own milestones, its own reasons people choose to give. Together, they strengthen communities from the inside, out.
Impacting Homes
A vented, smoke-free cookstove and a household water filter — installed together in a single visit, in 3,529 homes and counting. The stove vents smoke out of the home and cuts firewood use by about 60%. The filter turns unsafe water into safe drinking water at the tap. A new 2026 program keeps those filters working for the long term.
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Volunteer medical teams travel to Guatemala year-round to run one-week clinics and surgical centers. Clinics deliver primary care, dental, pediatric, maternal, and vision services. Surgical teams bring board-certified surgeons, anesthesiologists, and perioperative nurses to perform procedures that change the direction of a life. 16,631 clinic patients and 1,158 surgeries to date.
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A full continuum from a child's first classroom to a marketable trade — Montessori through twelfth grade, the BookTuk® mobile classroom reaching children beyond campus, and a vocational program that scaled from 95 diplomas in 2021 to 1,380 in 2025. 2,783 EC-12 enrollments and 2,653 trade diplomas to date.
Learn More About EducationYou can help build all three.
Every stove, every clinic week, every classroom relies on people who choose to be part of this work — at any level, for any pillar.
