What Edelac does

EDELAC (Asociación Escuela de la Calle) is a Guatemala-registered non-profit association founded in May 1995 and headquartered in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The organization serves at-risk children, adolescents, and families in Quetzaltenango's Las Rosas neighborhood through three integrated programs: Escuela EDELAC (a preventive primary school serving approximately 160 children aged 5-15 annually with formal education, scholarships, healthcare, and psychosocial support), Hogar Hovde (a residential care home providing 24/7 housing, education, vocational training, medical and psychological care, and family reintegration support through age 18), and Quetzaltrekkers (a mountain trekking and hiking tour operator in Guatemala's highlands that serves international backpackers while generating self-sustaining revenue for EDELAC's social programs).

The organization is staffed by approximately 10 employees supported by volunteers, and delivers additional ancillary services including a 5,000+ volume library maintained with a Seattle church partner, a marimba music school, a parent education program (Escuela de Padres), vacation school (Escuela Vacacional), educational scholarships through university level (Becas Estudiantiles), vocational workshops (Talleres Vocacionales), psychosocial support (Atención Psicosocial), and an agricultural education initiative (De la Tierra al Plato). Students have authored two published books (2022, 2024). Service delivery is entirely free to beneficiaries.

EDELAC's revenue model relies on individual and organizational donations combined with self-generated commercial revenue from the Quetzaltrekkers tourism program. Geographic operations are concentrated in a single city (Quetzaltenango) across three owned facilities, though Quetzaltrekkers draws an international tourist audience. The organization has no app, no proprietary technology platform, no API, and no disclosed digital products; its digital presence is limited to a Facebook page, Instagram account, and website used for donor engagement and program visibility.

Name

Edelac

Legal name

Asociación Escuela de la Calle (EDELAC)

Website

https://edelac.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EDELAC is a Guatemala-based non-profit founded in 1995 that runs a primary school, residential care home, and self-sustaining trekking tour program to serve at-risk children and families in Quetzaltenango, funded by donations and tourism revenue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit Child Welfare and Education Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee, Crisis & Humanitarian Education Partnerships (EiE) (EDADALAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Education in Emergencies (EiE) & Safe Schools (BPADAKAJ)

Keywords

• Primary education services
• Residential child care
• Nonprofit social services
• Vocational training programs
• Youth psychosocial support

Headquarters

HQ city

Quetzaltenango

HQ country

Guatemala

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Quetzaltrekkers Tourism Program: Hiking and trekking tours in the Guatemalan highlands offered to backpackers and travelers. This program generates revenue that supports the self-sustainability of EDELAC's social programs for at-risk children.
2. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Individual and organizational donations support the organization's operations including education, residential care, health services, and psychological support for children.
3. Educational Scholarships Support: Scholarships for secondary, baccalaureate, and university education are provided based on academic performance and economic need, supported by donors.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

EDELAC is a non-profit organization that delivers free educational, residential, and psychosocial services to at-risk children and adolescents in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Its core offerings consist of three programs: Escuela EDELAC (a preventive primary school for children ages 5–15), Hogar Hovde (a 24/7 residential care home for working and street children), and Quetzaltrekkers (a mountain trekking tour operation whose revenues sustain the social programs).

Product overview

EDELAC (Escuela de la Calle) is a non-profit social transformation organization operating three interconnected programs: Escuela EDELAC is a primary school serving approximately 160 at-risk children aged 5-15 with formal education, scholarships, healthcare, and psychosocial support; Hogar Hovde is a residential foster home providing comprehensive care including housing, education, vocational training, and psychological services to children through age 18; and Quetzaltrekkers is a trekking tour operation that generates self-sustaining funding for the organization's social programs. Additional services include a library, music school, parent education workshops, vacation school, student scholarships, and vocational training workshops. The organization addresses social exclusion through education, human rights advocacy, and community support in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Escuela EDELAC A preventive primary school program serving approximately 160 at-risk children annually (ages 5–15) in the Las Rosas neighborhood of Quetzaltenango, providing formal pre-primary and primary education, scholarships for secondary and high school, preventive and curative healthcare, psychosocial support, music marimba classes, environmental education, and children's rights training.
• Hogar Hovde A 24/7 residential care home for working children, street children, abandoned children, and adolescent girls from extreme poverty, providing permanent housing, food, education at all levels, vocational training workshops, medical and psychological care, sports, recreation, and spiritual guidance through age 18, with the goal of family reintegration or independent positive life trajectories.
• Quetzaltrekkers A mountain trekking and hiking tour operator in the Guatemalan highlands offering hikes and tours to international backpackers and travelers, generating revenue that supports the self-sustainability of EDELAC's social programs while providing cultural education about Maya geography and culture.

Quantifiable outcome

• Approximately 160 children served annually through the school program

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• QuetzaltrekkerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuetzaltrekkers is a hiking/tourist program created in 1996 with visionary volunteers. It serves backpackers and travelers with tours of Guatemala's highlands while generating revenue to sustain EDELAC's social programs.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Save the Children: Global NGO delivering education, child protection, and health programs in Guatemala and across Latin America — broader geographic reach and funding base but overlapping mission on at-risk children's education and welfare.
• World Vision: Large international NGO with sponsorship, education, child-protection, and community-development programs in Guatemala — comparable beneficiary focus at greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Mercy Corps: International humanitarian organization running youth, education, and economic-development programs across Latin America — broader portfolio including emergency response but overlapping child-and-family development themes.
• ChildFund International: Large international child-focused NGO funding education, protection, and youth-development programs in Guatemala and worldwide — broader portfolio but overlapping beneficiary and program categories.

Others

• Habitat for Humanity International: Global nonprofit addressing poverty through housing, with adjacent Latin American programming that intersects with EDELAC's family-stability and poverty-alleviation mission but in a different service category.

Direct peers

• Casa Alianza / Covenant House Latin America: NGO operating residential and educational programs for street and at-risk children across Guatemala and Central America — directly comparable mission, geography, and beneficiary profile to EDELAC.
• Aldeas Infantiles SOS (SOS Children's Villages): Global nonprofit providing family-like residential care, education, and youth-transition support for children who have lost parental care — directly comparable residential-care-plus-education model.
• Quetzaltrekkers Guatemala: EDELAC's own trekking sub-brand and Guatemala-focused adventure-tourism operator — included here as a self-referential peer illustrating the tourism-revenue channel.
• Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH): International nonprofit running residential homes, schools, and vocational programs for orphaned and abandoned children across Latin America — closely matches EDELAC's Hogar Hovde and Escuela models.
• Fundación Juconi (JUCONI Ecuador): Latin American NGO working with street and working children in Ecuador to support family reintegration, education, and psychosocial wellbeing — closely comparable regional NGO model serving at-risk children.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/edelac.escueladelacalle
• Instagraminstagram.com/edelacxela
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/edelac

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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