Assistance in Izabal

FUNDAECO: Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation in Puerto Barrios, Izabal
FUNDAECO: Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y Conservación, Puerto Barrios:

Information and outpatient assistance point for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Puerto Barrios, Izabal.

Assistance and services available:

  • Information point.
  • Prehospital care.
  • Emergency kit for women.
  • Hydration kit.

Phone: (+502) 5057-8134
Address: Main street towards Las Escobas, Santo Tomas de Castilla, Puerto Barrios, Izabal
Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

FUNDAECO: Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation in Morales, Izabal
FUNDAECO: Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y Conservación, Morales, Izabal

Information and outpatient assistance point for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Morales, Izabal.

Assistance and services available:

  • Information point.
  • Prehospital care.
  • Emergency kit for women.
  • Hydration kit.

Phone: (+502) 5182-4215
Address: Barrio Moderno, Tally Apartaments, Morales, Izabal (in front of the Don Yuyu restaurant alley).
Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Association El Refugio de la Niñez NGO
Asociación el Refugio de la Niñez ONG

Information and outpatient assistance point for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, located in Puerto Barrios and at Km 243, Izabal. Providing accompaniment to protection and psychosocial support to people with international protection needs.

Assistance and services available:

  • Legal advice
  • Psychological attention
  • Social Care
  • Livelihoods

Phone: (+502) 7948-1345 
Address:  Between 13th Street and 14th Avenue, half a block from the Children’s Hospital in  Puerto Barrios, Izabal
Hours: Monday and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Guatemalan Red Cross
Cruz Roja Guatemalteca

Mobile Unit of the Guatemalan Red Cross, located on El Corinto-La Ruidosa Border Km 243, Izabal.
Information and assistance points for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants.

Assistance and services available:

  • Free phone calls.
  • Prehospital care.
  • Delivery of a snack.
  • Psychosocial support.
  • Personal hygiene kit.
  • Hydration (safe water).

Phone: (+502) 7948-7188
Address: El Corinto-La Ruidosa Border / Km 243, Izabal.
Office: 14th street between 15th and 16th avenues, Puerto Barrios, Izabal
Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Information Office for Migrants and Refugees Belen in Izabal.
Oficina de Información a Personas Migrantes y Refugiadas Belén en Izabal.

Information and assistance point for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants.

Assistance and services available:

  • Route information and risk prevention.
  • Delivery of humanitarian assistance kits.
  • Emergency Assistance

Phone: (+502) 4743-2921
Address: La Ruidosa Village, Road to Río Dulce, Morales, Izabal
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Blessed Tulio and Luis Obdulio Migrant House
Casa del Migrante Beatos Tulio y Luis Obdulio

The shelter/house provides support to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants.

Assistance and services available:

  • Route information and risk prevention.
  • Shelter.
  • Food.
  • Legal and immigration advice.
  • Spaces for personal hygiene.
  • Clothes and/or shoes.
  • Humanitarian assistance.
  • Psychological assistance.

Phone: (+502) 7947- 5173
Address: Village Entre Ríos, Km. 283, Puerto Barrios, Izabal, in front of Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Hours: Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Guardianship hours: Monday to Sunday 6:00 pm to 9:00 am. After 9:00 p.m. special cases are received when referred (migrants in a special situation, families, women, children, and adolescents).

St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Livingston, Izabal
Parroquia San Antonio de Padua, en Livingston, Izabal

Information and assistance point for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants.

Assistance and services available:

  • Feeding.
  • Emergency Assistance
  • Route information and risk prevention.
  • Shelter

Phone: (+502) 53450544 / (+502) 57827270 
Address: Semají Village, Km. 292.5, Río Dulce-Cadenas Highway, Livingston, Izabal
Office hours: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. After that time, the priests can attend to urgent cases, if they are in the parish.