YES Leader: Mr. Guillermo Leverman
Email : guillermo@yesweb.org , gleverman@yahoo.com
website : http://www.ejguate.org

Vision : Initiate a discussion space and motivation to materialize the project ideas of the youth for entrepreneurship. generation

Background : In Guatemala near of 3,5 million inhabitants are young people (27,7% of the overall population). The Index of Development of Guatemala was 117 in 2008. According with the Ministry of Work during 2008 the unemployment rate was of 5.5%

About the Network : YES Guatemala goals are on employabil ity, empowerment, entrepreneurship and education with a particular focus on rural development. For the next two years this network will mainly develop projects that benefit young people from diverse social layers , 5 of the 7 strategic sectors and 7Es of the YES Campaign. YES Guatemala has been building its capacity to construct processes in favor of the Enterprising Cultures, Employability, and the Culture of the Voluntary military service. YES Guatemala considers that the main areas of strengths are the types of alliances that it is projecting at present, seen like opportunities detected in the national context. The YES Guatemala host agency is Junior Achiviement Guatemala.

Current Major Initiatives :

• Working on an alliance with the Pacific Institute to develop a process of qualification for other organizations of youth. Thanks to this YES Guatemala can have a concrete offer to add more organizations working with youth to the YES network. (Pacific is a research institute that works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity. - http://www.pacinst.org/)
• YES Guateala is developing an alliance with the National Council of Youth (Conjuve) that can provide support for the development and skill building of the young people for employability and entrepreneurship.
• Management of specialized voluntary service to engage young people and children in K6 programs for a day organized by Junior Achievement. YES Guatemala is working for coordinating activities and bringing the green concept to its members towards YES 2010.

Key Accomplishments :

• The management of volunteers to serve children and youth groups on specific business issues.• Installed capacity for the development of various project proposals and business development
• YES Guatemala have had an active participation and promotion across the YES networks in Latin America about young social entrepreneurs. In YES Kenya 2006 it was recognized as the most entrepreneurial network in this region through the project Huella Emprendedora
• Developed key partnerships with key stakehol ders such Junior Achivimient, Instituto DEMOS Guatemala, COPREDEH, Incuba, Youth Entrepreneurs Guatemala, among others.