Accountability

Building an organization committed to the highest ethical standards demands more than just following the law: it also requires fostering practices that create an environment of transparency, accountability and integrity.

IRS Determination Letter (pdf)

LWH has earned $158,869.30 as of August 25th, 2009.

In the course of the last 4 years we have:

Built

• The first building for the vocational school
• Soccer field
• Bleachers
• Basketball court
• Community kitchen
• Playground
• Kiosk
• Rock Retaining wall
• Botanical Gardens
• Tree Nursery
• Parking Lot
• Tire house
• Earthbag Kitchen
• 2 latrines from trash bottles
• 5 wood burning stoves
• 4 water harvesting tanks
• 2 Retaining walls from tires
• Foundation for a house
• 2 storage rooms
• Strong relationships with a variety of local organizations
• A strong nonprofit organization

We have also:

• Remodeled the volunteer and staff houses at Parque Chimiya
• Landscaped the park
• Grown and distributed 40,000 trees
• Created 87 local jobs and spent over $10,000 in local salaries
• Created a recycling plan for plastics for Comalapa
• Brought medical and fire equipment to Comalapa
• Collaborated with EWB on four potable water projects to benefit over 7,000 people

Worked

• Adam - 6,704 hours
• Mateo - 12,000 hours
• Liz - 2,709 hours
• Cat - 5,821 hours
• Aaron - 3,200 hours
• Erica - 1,400 hours
• Andy - 1,400 hours
• Rebecca - 1,400 hours
• Lisa - 4,000 hours

$14,200 has been spent on staff salaries
On site paid staff has worked over 30,000 hours.

Hosted

Over 400 volunteers from 12 countries
37,538 vounteer hours worked!

We strongly encourage people to visit all of LWH's projects which are in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala to see where donor money goes. For those who cannot travel we will do our best to maintain an updated website.