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This is a story of success of the Opportunities for My Community Project, which links remittances, education and savings to promote economic and human development in Guatemala. Guatemala’s development has been constrained by low economic performance due to a largely informal economy and an unskilled labor force. In turn, low levels…Read more +

Guatemala is a country of young entrepreneurs. One in six Guatemalans is an entrepreneur, and over 50% of them are between 18 and 34 years old.Read more +

Guatemala es un país de jóvenes emprendedores. Uno de cada seis guatemaltecos es emprendedor y el 50% de ellos tienen entre 18 y 34 años de edad.Read more +

Una estudiante recibe su diploma

Con el fin de ayudar a que los jóvenes guatemaltecos desarrollen habilidades preprofesionales que se traduzcan en un valor agregado para su carrera futura, el proyecto Oportunidades para mi Comunidad implementa desde el año 2017, un programa de educación extracurricularRead more +

Inter-American Dialogue

Migrants often purchase products from their country of origin such as food, clothing or handicrafts, a practice which is known as the “nostalgic trade.”  To better understand this practice, the project surveyed 380 Guatemalans in the United States and visited more than 40 stores that offer Guatemalan nostalgic products. The…Read more +

Cooperativa San Pedro (MICOOPE), Agencia Santa Cruz Barillas

This is a story of success of the Opportunities for My Community Project, which links remittances, education and savings to promote economic and human development in Guatemala.   Jessica Noriega first joined the Opportunities for My Community project as a financial educator. Her work was to provide financial education at Cooperative…Read more +

Graduation Ceremony of the B’etil Diploma in El Palmar

Migrants have a strong potential to transform their families and societies; the challenge is harnessing this potential. The Opportunities for My Community project explores practical ways in which various actors, including diaspora groups and remittance companies, can work effectively to support education in Guatemala.Read more +

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In this article, we provide some preliminary results of a financial education project in Guatemala that began on November 2016. Read more +

Financial education has proven to be an efficient tool for systematically and effectively building assets in a society (OECD, 2005). One of the components of the Opportunities for My Community project consists of providing financial education to over 120,000 people in Guatemala.  Our financial education project consists of a successful and innovative…Read more +

Julia Yansura

Guatemala’s economic growth and development has historically been affected by high rates of inequality, as well as by a poorly performing economic model that is based on agricultural exports. Read more +

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Implementado gracias al apoyo de la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional de Estados Unidos (USAID),[1] Oportunidades para Mi Comunidad es un proyecto de tres años que vincula remesas, migrantes, educación y ahorro para promover el desarrollo económico y humano en Guatemala. La estrategia, que se enfoca en el Altiplano Occidental…Read more +