Food For The Poor has 158 projects either completed or underway in Guatemala. In-country partners include Caritas Arquidiocesana, The Order of Malta, and The Lutheran Church in Guatemala. In addition, Gifts In Kind container shipments to Guatemala include food, medicine, health care items, and educational supplies. Key areas of focus:

• Providing safe, sturdy housing to the poor has been a priority. To date, 3,003 housing-units have been built.
• Food For The Poor sponsors four Angels Of Hope orphanages in Guatemala. Through this program, 301 children have a home, food and attentive caregivers who offer loving care.
• FFP's animal husbandry projects have been very successful here. These projects assist men, women and children who now have new opportunities in these self-sustaining projects.
• Tilapia projects have also been very successful, resulting in a total of 42 in-ground ponds and 34 10-foot diameter concrete pools.
• Food For The Poor and its in-country partners support more than 100 projects that provide women with both immediate help and training to create a better future. These women learn new ways of earning income, as well as improving their quality of life and self-esteem. Women receive instruction in dressmaking, baking, handcraft design, tilapia farming and many other vocational skills.
• Soy production factories are an innovative project designed to diminish malnutrition in remote areas where there are few other viable sources of nutrition. Food For The Poor initiates soy mills, with their respective stainless steel pots and burners, a solar water heater and soy grains so the beneficiaries can process the raw product and convert it into a source of natural protein. There are now 23 factories in full production.
• The Chuilajú water development program in the Quetzaltenango area has helped more than 30 families that live on the mountain at an altitude of 8,000 feet above sea level. These families were without water and had to walk down the mountain for hours in the early morning to access municipal water sources in the city below. They would then carry back the water in containers on their heads up the steep and rocky mountain paths, sometimes in nearly freezing temperatures. After several trips down and up the mountain, they would then go down to the city garbage dump to collect recyclable items. Many no longer have to do this because they are able to earn a living by doing laundry.