Together we can build the dream of peace.

We are ​AMOR, a global community that helps educate and empower young people to transform lives and end poverty and injustice, primarily in Guatemala. We go where other organisations cannot to defend the rights of the most powerless and persecuted, with a focus on women/girls and vulnerable children. AMOR helps rebuild lives and communities destroyed by war, poverty or exclusion, and stands up with them to be counted. 

​Above all, AMOR is a dream of peace.

Together We Can Transform Lives

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When you Sponsor a Mayan Child...
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...you invest in a future in which children have the key to freedom, peace and justice so they can contribute their gifts to society. And when you do that, you help lift up a whole community, a nation, a world.

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Message from the Founder

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My name is Arnulfo Fernando Gómez Oxlaj. I´m a native American, an indigenous Mayan whose soul cries out with those of my ancestors when every day I see children born into the world condemned to be beggars, without a space, without freedom and without hope.

I was born in 1985 in the north of Guatemala. Guatemala is a beautiful, fertile land which previously encompassed the territories of Belize and Chiapas, Mexico. It is home to mountains, rivers, volcanoes and lakes such as Lake Atitlan, and myriad ethnicities such as the Garifunas, Xinkas, Ladinos as well as 22 different Mayan groups. The Mayans are famous for building pyramids such as Tikal, Kumarkaj and Iximche. I am from the K´iche´ Mayan people.

Chiul is an oppressed and marginalised indigenous K´iche´ village. Chiul means “on the edge of the ravine”, but in reality it is adorned by the lush Cuchumatan mountains. Its people are very lovely; my grandfather and I call its women “warriors of peace”. Yet we indigenous people suffered a holocaust, a holocaust which has left us buried beneath fear, injustice and hunger. And ever since that holocaust, Chiul´s glorious mountains have become deserts, its rivers, lakes and streams polluted, and every beautiful child and woman exists in a waking state of coma in which their vital signs are slowly diminishing. It has become a heaven for the oppressors - and for the ninety-five per cent who live without freedom or food or water or space or education or home or justice, a hell.