Guatemala

Reinventing the future for paid care workers in Central America

17 October 2024

What’s TRASOL? In a nutshell, it’s SOCODEVI’s new innovative social justice initiative to make a real difference in Guatemala and Honduras. With financial backing from the Canadian government, our teams will spend the next several years working to improve the living conditions of 4,500 women and 1,250 young girls who are paid care workers in both countries.

New initiative on Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan

11 September 2023

SOCODEVI officially launched PRODISOL, its new project in Guatemala. This initiative will focus on improving the living conditions of women and young people working in the tourism sector.

Environment: our star teams!

2 June 2022

To reduce our environmental footprint, our teams work together and commit to improving their practices year after year. That's why, to celebrate World Environment Day, we want to highlight our champion teams. Discover our five country offices that stood out for their environmental management in 2021-2022.

SOCODEVI: STILL CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2022!

17 March 2022

“SOCODEVI is proud to renew its carbon neutral certification for a second consecutive year. We continue to set ourselves apart and conduct our operations in alignment with our principles and values.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCOUX, SOCODEVI CEO

Taking root and blossoming

6 January 2022

Tree of Intercooperation: Solidarity for a Greener Future!

15 April 2021

The program was initially designed to uphold SOCODEVI’s environmental responsibility commitments and those of its member institutions (cooperatives and mutual organizations in Quebec). Since the project was launched in 2009, no fewer than 5,593.6 tons of CO2-eq have been offset by the planting of 207,756

Nurturing Resilience

31 August 2020

To mitigate the pandemic’s impact on the availability of and access to fresh food, the beneficiaries of our WAKLIIK project received inputs and technical assistance to set up home gardens. SOCODEVI and its partner, FEDECOVERA, put up a factory for the production of at least

New project in Guatemala: women and youth at the heart of sustainable economic growth

30 April 2019

A key partner country in the SOCODEVI story, Guatemala is the most populated nation in Central America but also the one with the highest rates of poverty, especially in rural areas.