Friendship Bridge

Friendship Bridge NGO presentation by cassandra walls

Microfinance loans help women to purchase materials, build capital and credit, and manage their businesses. By investing in the women, Friendship Bridge hopes to rebuild communities and eliminate poverty.

Photos courtesy of friendshipbridge.org

Education opens doors for women in impoverished communities. With an education a woman can construct and manage a business and better support herself, her family, and her community.
Guatemala continues to reel despite 36 years passing since their last civil war. A majority of indigenous women in Guatemala suffer illiteracy.
Friendship Bridge provides preventative health care and health education to impoverished women.

Poverty runs rampant within Guatemala, and due to the feminization of this global epidemic women are disproportionately impacted in a number of far reaching ways. The NGO (Non-Governmental Group) Friendship Bridge is working hard to change the ripple effects of gender and sex inequalities as well as economic disparities which are often woven through the history of a war-torn nation.

Surprisingly, Friendship Bridge and its outreach programs did not begin in Guatemala. Their origins began with another war-torn nation: Vietnam. Friendship Bridge provided medical supplies and food to impoverished persons following the Vietnam War. They continue this legacy of active change in Guatemala through microfinance loans, educational opportunities, and healthcare prevention and information.

Friendship Bridge and their methods consistently prove effective in a country with rising crime rates and widening economic inequalities. This NGO bridges the gaps with opportunities for growth and empowerment of women.

References:

https://www.friendshipbridge.org
https://www.revuemag.com/2019/10/the-guatemalan-dream-a-brighter-future-without-leaving-the-country/

Credit for all photos goes to https://www.friendshipbridge.org

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Credits:

https://www.friendshipbridge.org