http://catapult.org – Latin America & Caribbean

Incorporating Gender Issues into the Classroom

Bring gender issues into the classroom to change cultural attitudes while providing an excellent English education.

A maternity waiting home in the Bolivian lowlands

In the poor, remote villages of the Amazon, women die from treatable childbirth complications because they can’t make it to a health clinic in time.

Bringing health care to street youth in Peru

We provide young women living on the streets of Peru with critical health care.

Nurturing mothers, midwives, and babies in Mexico

Support midwives so that no woman will have to go without vital health care.

HIV training for indigenous youth

Young people in Ecuador’s indigenous communities need to understand their reproductive rights and health, so they can stay safe and healthy.

Dry composting latrines in El Salvador

Innovative solution helps avoid contamination of soils and water supplies, reduces disease, parasites and dysentery.

Lifting the health burden on isolated communities

Mobile health units bring health services to rural women in the Dominican Republic.

Cultivating the leadership of girls in Haiti

50 Haitian girls will have a safe space to learn and lead in their communities.