Saturday 29th April 2023 Walking down one of the busy roads in La Terminal in Guatemala City will take you past hundreds of stalls, most selling flowers, fruit and vegetables.  It is noisy and often messy under foot as the thousands of daily visitors help generate over 3 million pounds worth of transactions per day. 

Monday 10th April 2023 According to UNICEF nearly half of all children under five years of age in Guatemala suffer from chronic malnutrition.  Most of these children will live in distant rural communities where help, advice and support are not as available as it is here in the city. However, most of the children we

The SKDGuatemala team have been supported by students from the Social Services Department of San Carlos University in Guatemala City to help trial a new parenting programme. The programme helps parents understand the impact the decisions they make have on their children, how to effectively parent, how to best support their children and help keep

Saturday 18th February 2023 Many of us have been in those moments when we receive news of a loved one who has passed away and we are left in shock and often can´t believe what we are hearing. We can quickly say something like: “but I only saw them yesterday”.  Dealing with the death of

Street Kids Direct has been working hard over the last few years, together with other organisations and the Guatemala government to help provide effective child protection systems and resources in order to keep children and particularly at-risk children safe.   For the last two years we have been coordinating efforts to advise the Guatemalan government

Street Kids Direct is very grateful to a team from WGM in the USA who came to spend a week with the SKDGuatemala charity in Guatemala.  Three of the team were children who were flying for the first time!   Their week consisted of working with the children in the two mentoring centres and organising