Leveraging community wisdom to create lasting change.
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Workforce Development
The Workforce Development Department prepares participants for entering the workforce and achieving financial and employment stability. We provide vocational skills training and work readiness support in order to bolster their professional development and employability.
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Accelerated Education
The Alternative Education Program provides free and accredited education to community members who experienced social and economic barriers to completing traditional education and are consequently excluded from the formal labor market.
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Emotional Support
Creamos Voces, our emotional support pillar, seeks to address social and emotional challenges that prevent community members from achieving the social and economic self-determination necessary for creating safer and healthier futures.
Dignified Employment
Through internal recruitment within mi eelo, Creamos’ social business, Creamos trains women to be seamstresses, offering them an alternative income to dangerous work in the garbage dump.
Creamos Impact
Fourteen years
800 participants
89 jobs created
237 graduates
3,200 children learning in a stabler home
Thousands of lives changed
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Our Partners
Creamos’ ability to implement consistent and high quality programming relies on collaborative relationships with local, regional and International partners. Their support allows for a multi-faceted approach to community development, collective action and effective resource brokerage as we leverage the knowledge and experience of the target community. The following list of foundations and institutions teach us, inspire us, and amplify our impact. We’re grateful for their instrumental role in our mission to promote social and economic self-determination alongside women and their families living in the community surrounding the Guatemala City garbage dump.
