New Dawn Guatemala

New Dawn Guatemala is a Seattle-based grassroots organization that works to promote equitable, ecologically friendly development and educational advancement in the rural Guatemalan community of Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn in English) and the surrounding region.

In the summer of 2013 a small group of Seattle residents who had learned about Nuevo Amanecer during trips to Guatemala founded a new organization dedicated to maintaining positive links with Nuevo Amanecer and the surrounding region.

We decided to orient our organization around the democratically chosen development needs of Nuevo Amanecer. Consequently, New Dawn Guatemala works in close conjunction with Nuevo Amanecer's community council, the democratically elected Associacion de Campesinos who determine projects for which they request solidarity and financial assistance.