Mir Pace International is a nonprofit organization created to provide humanitarian assistance to children and families throughout the world who are suffering the devastating effects of war, natural disasters, poverty, abuse and abandonment. After a disaster is no longer front-page news, victim children and families in much of the developing world still languish in poverty and squalor, trapped in a daily struggle to survive amid horrible, often inhuman living conditions.

Mir Pace is dedicated to the ideal that all people deserve a simple, decent place to live with basic necessities such as a home, clean water, food, clothing, access to education, and medical and dental care.

Every disaster disrupts social environments differently according to a wide range of variables. Impacts of disasters on affected populations include severe poverty, death, displacement, impaired health, loss of purpose, and low self-esteem. Hope for a peaceful future can only be resolved by a political solution to the root causes of crises. In the interim, humanitarian assistance is necessary to reduce vulnerability, alleviate human suffering, and restore the self-sufficiency and livelihoods of disaster-affected populations. Mir Pace is currently working in the village of Tamahú, Guatemala and in the Kagera region of Tanzania, East Africa, with plans to expand our programs in 2008.

For more information on the work we are doing in Guatemala and Tanzania, on our volunteer programs, and the many ways in which you can help, please visit the links above.