Semi-Annual Update 2021

01 Aug 2021

Canadian Humanitarian Receives $244,000 in funding from the Fund for Innovation & Transformation

FIT

Canadian Humanitarian is thrilled and honored to announce that we have been awarded the Fund for Innovation and Transformation (FIT) funded through Global Affairs Canada.

Canadian Humanitarian will receive $244,000 of funding to launch a new approach to addressing gender equality and violence prevention Guatemala in partnership with our newest local project SERniña by REALgirl.

Through the support of FIT, Canadian Humanitarian, and our local partner SERniña by REALgirl will test the impact and effectiveness of a holistic, family-centered, gender-equity focused violence prevention and response program in Guatemala.

Key innovations of this project include incorporating Mayan restorative justice methodologies, offering a healing-focused approach to violence prevention and response, and engaging whole families and boys and men throughout the process.

    

Guardian Support Programs

January began Canadian Humanitarian's Guardian Self Reliance program. 
( Called Entrepreneurship and Development in Emerging Nations – E.D.E.N. )

In partnership with Hope Arising, classes began weekly with 3 groups of 15 guardians.
 
As of July, our participants are ready for receiving loans, and beginning businesses that they have submitted
business plans and budgets for!

  

Kirkos Self Reliance Training 2021

  

SSCM Self Reliance Training

Gulele Self Reliance Training

Center Home Visits - Kality 1st to be completed!
 
Each month, program mangers and staff visit the students in their homes. They have the opportunity to help guardians support their students, discuss what is going well, and what they see as areas they need help.
 
Kality was the first to complete all family visits and submit photos and reporting.

                         

GULELE Center to change

Gulele Center faced the hardships of a storm in March, resulting in damage to the building and students' items. The electrical transformer caught fire and resulted in fire damage to the street side rooms, as well as damage to students' instruments.

The landlord also informed Canadian Humanitariann of city changes to the road beside the center. The expansion of the outside road has taken 1/2 of the compound space, and Canadian Humanitarian is tasked with the job of finding a new location for our students that is within 20 minutes walking distance in the home-school-afterschool triangle.


Monthly Family Food Distributions

During the initial days of COVID restrictions, Canadian Humanitarian moved to full emergency food distributions for student families. Our food distribution will help families survive the effects of COVID-19 which have impacted available funds, jobs, and food in the home.


With students able to return in shifts to the after school centers, we have been able to distribute snacks daily at the centers.
        Specific food distributions to entire families happen monthly, especially during holiday times such as Easter. These food items include live Chicken, fresh eggs, teff grain, wheat flour, oil, rice and pasta.