Our Mission

Familias de Corazón (Families of the Heart) is a Guatemalan-based non profit organization dedicated to fostering connections between adoptive families and the birth families of their Guatemalan-born children, and to providing educational, health and nutritional support to birth families in Guatemala.

Family.  There is nothing more important to any of us.  We gravitate to our loved ones at holidays and count on them in times of duress.  As children we take comfort in seeing ourselves reflected back at us in the faces of our relatives.  As adults we watch our kids grow up reasonably assured they will be educated, have access to medical care and never really know hunger. 

But the story is not quite the same for our adopted children and their birth families.  Our adopted kids need to know where they come from while their birth families often long to know what became of the children they placed for adoption while struggling to raise siblings in extreme poverty.  We as adoptive parents want to provide our kids every opportunity to connect with their birth culture and families even though we may be terrified of what we will find and clueless on how to navigate this type of relationship.

This is where Nuevas Familias can help.  

Since 2007, the founders of Nuevas Familias have worked to help adoptive families find and connect with the birth families of their Guatemalan born children.  To date we have helped over 400 families explore connections. In 2015, we founded Familias de Corazón as a Guatemalan non-profit to continue this work, however, due to onerous Guatemalan regulations were forced to close the non-profit organization at the end of 2017. Today, the work of connecting adoptive and birth families continues via the for-profit organization, Nuevas Familias.