Fundación Puntos de Encuentro
We connect with feminist communication, capacity strengthening, democracy and human rights work across Central America.
Who we are
Fundación Puntos de Encuentro Inc. is a foundation based in the United States. Our purpose is simple: to open a trustworthy bridge between people who want to give and the communities in Central America who are already weaving change.
The work we support is feminist and Central American. It seeks to transform unequal power relations so that people can live free of violence, discrimination and exclusion, at home, in intimate life and in the street. Because the personal is political, change begins in everyday relationships and grows into collective action.
The threads of this weave carry many colors. Women of all ages, youth, LGBTIQ+ people and Central American migrants cross this loom without losing their identity. That is the meaning of diversity with equity, and of the colors woven through this site.
The programs described on this site are implemented in Central America by Asociación Puntos de Encuentro, an organization that carries forward more than three decades of feminist communication and education in the region. The Foundation speaks with its own voice, and every dollar it mobilizes serves that work.
What guides us
Every figure on this site comes from institutional reports and is labeled with the period it covers. We do not round stories up.
We never publish names, images or testimonies without authorization. In adverse contexts, protecting communicators and participants comes before publicity.
Programs are monitored, evaluated and researched. What does not work is said out loud and corrected.
The programs your support sustains
The work follows four institutional strategies documented in the Institutional Report for the first half of 2026. Together they form a single fabric of rights, voices and care.
Reliable information, open conversations about rights, and the voices of women, youth, diversities and migrants across Central America and its diaspora. In the first half of 2026 these platforms reached more than 1.3 million people, mostly organically.
Feminist journalism in depth on the rights of women and diversities in Central America, produced even where informing requires protecting sources, testimonies and authorship.
A feminist media platform for adolescents and young people aged 15 to 35. Sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality, violence prevention, diversity, migration, mental health and youth participation.
A free platform in Spanish for Central American migrants. Verified news, orientation resources and an AI assistant, offering a safe way to find guidance without depending on rumors or exploitation networks.
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The methodological heart of the communication strategy. A school, a care network and a regional early alert system, and the main institutional bet on a new generation of Central American feminist journalism.
A weave grows stronger when every thread develops its own capacity to sustain, decide and transform. This strategy accompanies organizations and communities across the region.
The GenGen process accompanies organizations in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua that work for the rights of children, adolescents and youth, combining regional training with individualized accompaniment.
Training and accompaniment so that organizations, communities and young leaders can defend human rights, strengthen democratic participation and sustain civic voice in adverse contexts across Central America.
Between 2023 and April 2026, the project Promoting Integral Health for Women articulated psychological care, mutual aid groups, body therapy, community education and professional training in Nicaragua, together with local partner collectives.
No thread sustains a weave alone. The work is built with feminist organizations, independent media, universities, collectives, networks of defenders and international funds. Each alliance has a function: sharing capacities, protecting communicators, expanding reach, producing knowledge, accessing resources or strengthening regional advocacy.
Research on how misogynist and anti-rights discourses circulate among young men in El Salvador and Honduras, woven into everyday videos, memes and content. Its findings inform feminist strategies for prevention and digital literacy.
A regional diagnosis developed with 201 adolescents and young people from the five Central American countries. Nearly 80% had encountered or doubted contraception information on social media, and 93.5% wanted reliable, evidence-based information through those same channels.
The external evaluation of the Women's Health project documented completed activities, coverage goals exceeded and the changes produced by sustained psychosocial accompaniment. Evaluation here is a practice of learning, transparency and shared responsibility.
The weave we sustain together
These results come from the Institutional Report for the first half of 2026 and from final project reports. Each figure states its period.
Why donors trust this weave
The work is led from Central America, by teams who know the terrain, the risks and the language of their own communities.
Results are published with the period they cover, drawn from institutional reports. Concluded projects are named as concluded.
External evaluations and regional research measure what changes, and findings guide the next stretch of the weave.
Security protocols protect communicators, sources and participants. No visibility is worth putting a person at risk.
Join the weave
A weave holds because many different threads cross without losing their identity. Your support sustains journalism, training, health, democracy and human rights for women, youth, LGBTIQ+ people and migrants across Central America.
Fundación Puntos de Encuentro Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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