“With our stove we are saving around $ 140.00 a year. That is a huge help to our economy, the look of our kitchen has improved a lot and also we don’t have the risk of our children falling into the fire.” Feliciano

Helping Villages

Hands For Peacemaking partakes in many different projects, each aimed at helping people lift themselves out of poverty.  Each project represents a partnership between the village elders and Hands For Peacemaking Staff, an extensive review process, and a contract signed by Hands For Peacemaking and the villagers.  Select from the list of projects below to see how Hands For Peacemaking is partnering with villagers to make a brighter tomorrow.

Water is Life

Many villages that populate the mountainous areas of NW Guatemala are continually faced with a daily struggle to get water for survival.  Since most village locations were based on available land, and not by... read more

Breathing Easier

One of the leading causes of illness, injury and death among the villagers of the Barillas area relates to the breathing of smoke inside the village huts from the open fires used for cooking and heat.

The... read more

Improving Education

When Hands For Peacemaking founders Leeon Aller MD and his wife Virginia first went to the Santa Cruz Barillas area of Guatemala, the country was in the middle of a 36 year long civil war.  Many families fled... read more