Strengthening communities,
from the inside, out.
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.
Every person can take action to change their life.
We don't import a solution. We partner.
We work alongside 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. That's the whole idea behind our three programs: practical support, designed to last.
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. 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.
Impacting Health
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.
Impacting Education
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.
Practical support. Lasting impact.
Three principles run through every pillar — the reason a stove, a clinic week, and a classroom add up to something a community keeps long after a team goes home.
Partner with the local community
Families and local leaders decide what they need and help carry the work. Nothing is done to a community; it's done with one.
Build a healthy foundation
Cleaner air and safe water at home, plus access to medical and surgical care, give people the stable base every other goal depends on.
Expand access to learning
From a child's first classroom to a marketable trade, education turns a healthier today into a future people own for themselves.
This work runs on people who choose to show up.
Volunteer teams travel to Guatemala to install stoves and filters, staff clinics and surgical centers, and stand alongside the families they serve. Returning volunteers come back year after year — because the relationships, and the results, last.
Join a TeamHomes teams
Install smoke-free stoves and water filters together with local families.
Health teams
Medical and surgical volunteers staff one-week clinics and surgical centers.
Returning volunteers
Come back to communities you know — and the people who remember you.
You 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.
