Santiago Elder Center - Santiago Atitlán, Sololá Department, Guatemala

The Elder Center supports 65 elders and provides them with a meal three times a week as well as medical care and a daily supply of vitamins.

As the center grows, our goal is to provide meals every day of the week as well as building a larger center.

The Santiago Elder Center is a project of Sharing the Dream in Guatemala and is currently funded through generous donations of our many friends around the world and Friends of Sharing the Dream in Guatemala, a US 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala promotes fair trade with cooperatives and small businesses in Guatemala, committed to providing fair wages and employment opportunities to low-income artisans to create sustainable markets for their projects.

In an effort to achieve sustainability for the Elder Center we provide the following cutural tourism services:

• Rents rooms to individuals or small groups
• Prepare meals for groups of three or more people
• Organize cross cultural experiences that might include...
  • Helping at the Elder Center
  • Teaching English to scholarship students
  • Working at the children’s library
  • Doing field work with local farmers
  • Tutoring at a local school
  • Helping with construction
  • Weaving lessons

The center has warm showers, wireless internet, and kitchen facilities. The minimum fee for these services help to maintain the Elder Cener and enables us to move towards sustainability.