WINGS creates opportunities for Guatemalan families to improve their lives by providing them with family planning education and access to reproductive health services.

WINGS speaks up for reproductive rights on International Day of Action for Women’s Health

Each year, the 28th of May is designated as the International Day of Action for Women’s Health.  This year, WINGS teamed up with a variety of organizations working on women’s health issues across Guatemala to demand better public health policies and improved public health services.  More than a dozen organizations participated, including Tierra Viva, the Youth Network for Political Advocacy (Incidejoven), and  the Network of Women for the Construction of Peace (REMUPAZ).    read more »

What can your support do?

  • $15 covers the cost of a tubal ligation.
  • $50 provides all educational materials to train 10 men in reproductive health and family planning through our WINGS for Men program.
  • $100 trains a youth peer educator to provide sexual and reproductive health information to adolescents in the community.
  • $500 provides cervical cancer detection and treatment for 35 women.

Learn more about how your support of WINGS makes a difference in the lives of Guatemalan families.

María Elisa graduated as a Youth WINGS peer educator in April 2009. She is 18 years old and lives in a primarily indigenous community in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. She decided to join the Youth WINGS program because she saw many girls from her community getting pregnant at age 13 or 14 and she wanted to share reproductive health information with her peers so that they could protect themselves from unplanned pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections. Maria Elisa currently studies agricultural processing at a local technological institute. As part of this program, she is doing an internship with a community organization that trains artisans. At the organization, she works with many other young women, and María Elisa decided to do a presentation to them about healthy relationships using the information she learned through Youth WINGS. Less than three weeks after completing her Youth WINGS training, María Elisa gave her first formal educational talk, which was greatly appreciated by her young colleagues. She looks forward to doing many more talks in the future. Read more of our success stories.