Fotokids is a Guatemala-based non-profit started in 1991 by ex-Reuters photojournalist, Nancy McGirr.
I've just come off a week with Nancy. She is an amazing force and has done wonderful things with the kids in Guatemala City and Santiago Atitlan. Her program provides kids with the skills and confidence to move out of some pretty hard conditions.
From the Fotokids site:
Mission:
The purpose of Fotokids is to help small groups of Central American young people from the poorest of barrios develop useful, employable skills as a means to self-exploration, expression, and discovery. Through intensive, long-term personal relationships with teachers and mentors, participating children learn to use photography, creative writing, and computers as tools to examine their lives, families, communities and environment bridging the global technology divide.
Please read more about what Nancy and her team are doing.
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