Ana’s Story
Guatemala City · Municipal Women’s Houses Program
Four years ago, Ana was at death’s door. The Carter Center invited Guatemala City to be part of its Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, which helps cities promote services that benefit women. The city told us about Ana — she’d been abused, her husband had died, and she had no money to care for her family. She got connected to the municipal women’s houses that provide free health and psychological services.
Today, Ana is empowered, running her own business that epitomizes the point of the campaign. The Center’s campaign has worked with 48 global cities to help them find innovative ways to connect women to essential services — including small grants to local organizations, commissioned public art, and peer learning between cities.
“Cities have these health services, but they don’t matter if women don’t know about them.”
Women in Guatemala share information with their communities.
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