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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn More About HomesVolunteer 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.
Learn More About HealthA 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 EducationEvery stove, every clinic week, every classroom relies on people who choose to be part of this work — at any level, for any pillar.
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