Partner Projects
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Project Hearts
Project Name: Project Hearts (Proyecto Corazones)
Project Leader: Marissa Doiron
Area of Focus: : Education, Women’s Equality, Community Health, Youth Leadership, Water Access
Location: Baitoa, Dominican Republic
Partners Since 2006
Project Hearts became an official NGO (non-governmental organization) in 2011 and continues to serve an estimated 15,000 people in Baitoa.
As part of a WASH initiative, Project Hearts installed 28 filters for purifying water, saving locals over 3,400 USD in bottled water purchases. New water tanks are constructed regularly for storing water, adding further savings. Another 7 water filters were installed in 2020, along with 67 additional tanks distributed among the community, which benefited more than 225 people.
Project Hearts emphasizes supporting locals for sustained community improvement. Donations help construct additional hands-free washing stations, educational programs for women and youth, water tanks, and home renovations.
In 2022, Project Hearts, with the support of GRACE Cares, conducted a baseline survey of community mental health in Baitoa. Please read the details and results of the survey here:
GuateBuena Association
Project Name: GuateBuena Association
Project Leader: Wilfred Sotz
Area of Focus: Utz K’aslemal, Holistic Wellbeing
Location: Chimaltenango Department of Guatemala, Central America
Partners Since: 2017
GuateBuena Association promotes Utz K'aslemal, "the good life," in Guatemalan communities. Their vision of development is rooted in Indigenous Maya values and harmony with Mother Earth, and it is carried out by people who live in the communities they serve.
Community banking sits at the center of the work. GuateBuena organizes Indigenous Maya women into solidarity groups for saving, lending, and financial education. In 2025, the community banks they support reported $185,583 in member savings, $47,978 in profits, and $1,198 held in social funds for emergencies, with capacity-building activities reaching more than 350 families.
That work has carried into 2026. Financial awareness workshops on responsible credit and productive investment reached savings groups made up of 350 families. Training built specifically for organized women's groups reached another 150 families, covering women's health and hygiene, family savings, entrepreneurship, student motivation, and women's empowerment. GuateBuena also guided 50 new families through solidarity loans under the Government of Guatemala's Land Fund program, pairing every loan with financial education.
The work extends well past the balance sheet. In 2025, GuateBuena placed 140 efficient cookstoves in 140 homes and paired the distributions with 3 environmental health workshops, cutting indoor smoke, fuel costs, and the hours families spend gathering wood. The team is now developing an experimental ecological area where children, youth, and families can learn about environmental care, recycled materials, reforestation, medicinal plants, and organic gardens. Their social enterprise, Ixoqi', employs 100 women artisans creating textiles for their retail partner.
Led by a team of Guatemalan experts along with founder Andrew Becker and his wife Danielle Huffaker, GuateBuena embodies values of environmental sustainability, resilience, and generosity.
Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP)
Project Name: Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP)
Project Leader: Blessed Ngoma
Area of Focus: Youth Education, Food Assistance
Location: Zambia, Africa
Partners Since 2020
The Munali Youth Empowerment Program (MYEP) provides early learning resources—books, reading workshops, health and safety programs—in the Lusaka Province of Zambia.
MYEP’s Knowledge in Motion initiative began in 2020. Since then, it has impacted more than 150 children with book deliveries and literacy workshops, facilitating unity through shared story time.
Opening in 2024, the MYEP Community Resource Center is a nurturing place where children have free access to educational programs, books, and other educational toys to stimulate their growth and development and foster a love of reading and learning.
Donated funds provide school supplies, resource center furniture, books, educational toys, and bicycles for the mobile book program and other essential supplies to maintain the Resource Center.
WATHA
Project Name: Watha Project
Project Leader: Jefferson Guyo Badiva
Area of Focus: Water Access, Education
Location: Galana Region, Kenya
Partners: Since 2019
The Watha Project partners with Kenya's indigenous Watha community to improve health care, education, and water access in the Galana Region of Kilifi County.
Working with GRACE Cares and the Uzima Community Development Organization (UCDO), the project has constructed boreholes in three villages—Garsemuke, Bombi, and Katana-Hakeye—providing safe drinking water and preventing waterborne illness and crocodile attacks. Three additional boreholes await funding.
Your donation supports year-round clean water access, educational improvements, and food security initiatives for the Watha community.
This article defines the heart and soul of the Watha community:
B4 Peace
Project Name: B4 Peace
Project Leader: Namaya
Area of Focus: Community Peace Through Art
Location: Global
Partners: Since 2011
As a community engagement initiative, B4 Peace promotes unity in historically stressed or war-torn areas of the world, and has conducted programs in Algeria, Chile, Palestine, and Vietnam.
By using art projects at a local level, B4 Peace engages communities with creativity, encouraging peacebuilding through art installations, theatrical performances, and peace-art workshops.
Establishing a Youth Theater program in Zambia, which addresses critical community issues is B4 Peace’s current focus. They are partnering with the Youth Cultural Promotion Association (YOCUPA) and have premiered their first play House of War; House of Glass which features youth speaking out about climate change and gender-based violence. In its first 3 months, the play has reached over 5000 people. Over half of the Zambian population is under 18 with limited access to education; theater by youth for youth can promote cross-cultural, tribal, and regional understanding while fostering peace-building and raising awareness of climate change and other issues affecting Zambia.
Youth Cultural Promotion Association
Project Name: Youth Cultural Promotion Association (YOCUPA)
Project Leader: Dr. Beck Banda (he/him)
Area of Focus: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Location: Zambia, Africa
Partners Since 2022
Founded in 1996, YOCUPA uses theatre and performing arts to address sexual and gender-based violence in Zambian communities. After identifying a lack of comprehensive intervention, they established 7ASIDE-ASHAGs (Anti-Sexual Harassment Groups) to fill this critical gap.
Your support enables YOCUPA to provide peer-to-peer awareness workshops, powerful Theatre For Community Action performances, a telephone hotline, Emotional CPR and rehabilitation resources. eCPR ensures Connection, emPowerment and Resuscitation for survivors and victims of trauma. These interventions work to reduce sexual violence in schools, workplaces, places of worship, homes, and community spaces eleven districts across Zambia.
In 2025 YOCUPA initiated a Zambian Youth Theatre program to amplify the voices of youth speaking out for a healthy future where youth seek to promote community unity and prevent climate change and gender-based violence. They successfully premiered their first performance House of War; House of Glass (see clip above) and are seeking funding to establish a permanent youth theater program.
