12-year-old Maria works in the fields with her mother, harvesting green beans. This is one of the sources of income for the family, and they do this together each day before Maria goes to school.
Hello, chichiha!
It would be wonderful to have you volunteer with us! For more information on volunteering with our office, please contact our Program Coordinator, Luigi, at luigi@goodneighbors.org. If you’d like to volunteer with our Good Neighbors Vietnam office, you can contact them directly here:
Good Neighbors Vietnam
1105 A4 Lang Quac Te Thang
Long Cau Giay
Hanoi, Vietnam
dangian65@hotmail.com
Thank you for wanting to support our organization!
Andres, an employee from our Good Neighbors Guatemala office, demonstrates how the rings from our cookstoves can be removed so families can cook on different-sized burners.
Our Project Cookstoves gives families new, safe stoves to replace their old, toxic ones. Our stoves are safe, energy-efficient, and don’t require large amounts of firewood to be collected (which is a job usually done by kids). Learn how to give a family a stove.
This little girl is all smiles during class at a Good Neighbors school in Patzicia, Guatemala. Here, the students are cutting different shapes out of paper as they learn how to count.
”The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
The Olympic Creed
Read how athletes from some of the most underprivileged nations in the world are coming to the Olympics and living by these words.
Making fresh tortillas on a Good Neighbors cookstove in Acatenango, Guatemala.
Learn how our Project Cookstoves is changing lives.
We’re hosting an event at Joy City Church in Anaheim, CA! Join us for a night of short films and live music supporting our projects for children in Guatemala.
- Learn how you can help send kids to school
- Find out how you can go on volunteer trips abroad with us
- Hear directly from donors and volunteers about their involvement with Good Neighbors
Sunday, August 12th at 5pm. Hope to see you there!
Spotlight Photo: Students learn how to use the computer at a Good Neighbors school in La Fragua, Guatemala.
Dr. Miriam Haydée Morales de Diaz—from the Good Neighbors health clinic in La Fragua, Guatemala— treats 10-year-old Elvin, who has a skin condition from working every day in the local landfill.












