Mike StrathdeeJan 13, 2025
As a teenager in Guatemala, Maria Pacheco was appalled at the lack of protection and opportunities for the most vulnerable women & children in her country. For the past 20 years, she has been working to create pathways to a better future for women and youth through the efforts of Wakami Global. Wakami is a MEDA partner in the Women's Empowerment 4 Central America (WE4CA) project. Read about it in the latest issue of The Marketplace Magazine. https://buff.ly/40vDdS7 #Wakami #Guatemala #WE4CA
A bridge to a brighter future

New hope for Guatemalan women: When Maria Pacheco was exposed to extreme poverty in Guatemala, she was appalled. Pacheco has spent the past 20 years bringing hope, and income, to rural women.

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Mike StrathdeeJan 7, 2025
Online this Friday:
How to end generational poverty in Guatemala?
Climate action by Mennonite businesspeople.
Unleashing African entrepreneurship.
Building opportunity in Honduras
Coping with discontinuous change, in church and business.
Cheeseboards and Christian faith.
All this and more, in the January issue of The Marketplace magazine
#Guatemala #Wakami #Climateaction #entrepreneurship #Africa #businesssolutionstopoverty
#faithandbusiness
#Honduras
Mike StrathdeeMay 10, 2024
MEDA partner Wakami works to empower rural women in Guatemala through developing new income possibilities.
See photos of how the Women's Empowerment for Central America (WE4CA) project is changing lives:
https://www.meda.org/the-marketplace/empowering-guatemalan-women/
#guatemala #economicdevelopment #women #MEDA #Wakami
Empowering Guatemalan Women

Guatemala has extremely limited opportunities for women and one of the region’s biggest gender gaps, Maria Pacheco says. But Pacheco, the co-founder and CEO of Wakami, a 20-year-old social enterprise, sees great promise for the future. “We have learned that with women, you change everything. When women are empowered, the right men come to the system.”

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