Project Title: Rooted in Care: Expanding Community-Based Mental Health for Women in Guatemala City

Location: Central America → Guatemala

Grant Amount: $50,000

Grantee Website: creamosguatemala.org

Areas of Impact: Health, Gender Equality

Mission of Creamos
The mission of Creamos is to eradicate gender-based violence and economic insecurity in Zone 3 and Zone 7 of Guatemala City.

Summary
With this grant, Creamos will deliver the only mental-health initiative operating in its target communities, grounding care in a collective, community-based framework that recognizes emotional distress as a natural response to structural oppression. The project includes integrated, trauma-informed, and culturally-grounded services that include individualized therapy, therapeutic and psychoeducational groups, and crisis intervention with case referrals and legal consultation for participants facing acute risk.

Why We Love This
We love this project because it meets a critical service gap with a survivor-centered, community-led model that blends evidence-based therapy with practical, wraparound supports. It lowers barriers to care—through flexible scheduling and free childcare — while elevating participant voices via continuous feedback and co-design. The program treats the whole person and strengthens family and community resilience. Rooted in local expertise and cultural context, it offers a scalable path to dignified, effective mental-health care for those who have had the least access to this care.