Design4Kids volunteers teach teens how to establish a successful design business

Design4Kids is a volunteer-based community of creative professionals who share their area of design expertise with teens in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. Volunteers come from a variety of professional design backgrounds, including graphic design, photography, marketing, fine art, web development, writing, animation and illustration.

Volunteers for Design4Kids provides week-long workshops where teens learn how to establish a successful design business. The organization works with a non-profit called Fotokids, which is working to end the cycle of poverty for some of Central America's poorest children. Fotokids is an after school program that teaches art techniques to participating students.

Nancy McGirr, a former war correspondent, founded Fotokids after she worked on a photo project about children in Guatemala who were forced to scavenge for trash to survive called "Out of the Dump"; she is the inspiration for Design4Kids.

To learn more about Design4Kids and Fotokids please visit design4kids.org and fotokids.org.

Click here to watch a video about Nancy McGirr, founder and executive director of Fotokids.