Cooperativa de Arte CEIBO R.L. (CEIBO) was founded in 1999 as a Multidisciplinary Art Company, devoted to artistic expression. In 2003, it began to carry out activities focused on education and socio-cultural development of children and adolescents at risk. In 2010, the Company was constituted as CEIBO Art Cooperative R.L., a non-profit, non-partisan and secular organization.
CEIBO has been a local partner participating in the program More opportunities, More rights for youth in Guatemala and Nicaragua, financed by Kerk in Actie since 2016. The program is aimed to strengthening social leadership among indigenous youths in Guatemala and Nicaragua from a gender sensitive, rights-based and cultural pertinent approach. The program focuses in the following main lines of action: a) economic empowerment; b) lobby, advocacy and political participation; and c) violence prevention. With their previous projects implemented in the 2016-2017 period, CEIBO aimed to contribute to generate conditions for good living in indigenous communities in Nicaragua; and specifically the projects have aimed to strengthen the social leadership of indigenous Miskitu adolescents in the Alamikangba community in the municipality of Prinzapolka, Nicaragua.