Every young person deserves room to dream beyond survival.
In partnership with Lifting Hands, MWI helps young people in communities facing high vulnerability build emotional wellbeing, self-discovery, vision, and practical routes to a thriving adulthood.
We help young people build what risk and poverty often try to take away.
Lifting Hands creates trusted spaces where children and youth can develop the confidence, relationships, and vision needed to make choices that open—not limit—their future.
Emotional wellbeing
Young people learn to understand themselves, build resilience, and strengthen healthy relationships.
Self-discovery
They explore their strengths, interests, identity, and the possibilities they can pursue for their own future.
Vision for life
They discover what is possible and build a personal path toward it with mentors by their side.
Two community spaces. One commitment to opportunity.
Lifting Hands works where young people are too often surrounded by limited choices—and expands the support, belonging, and possibility around them.
Anonos.lab
A space for children and adolescents in Bajo de los Anonos to grow in safety, identity, skills, and hope.
Diques.lab
A growing community hub that brings meaningful learning and supportive relationships closer to young people and families.
Atrévete is now being piloted in Guanacaste.
With a grant from Fundación Caricaco, MWI and local partners are bringing the Atrévete model to three public high schools in Guanacaste—helping students build vision, resilience, and a future they can choose with confidence.
Three-school pilot · Guanacaste
Change begins from the inside out.
When young people can see their own dignity, capacity, and future, their choices can begin to change their lives, families, and communities.
We learn from progress—and use it to strengthen what works.
MWI and Lifting Hands use ongoing assessment and local insight to improve programming in real time, support long-term growth, and share what works with other communities.
When a young person sees a future, a community becomes stronger.
Each Lifting Hands center costs $10,000 per month. If you are willing to fund a center to transform 250 lives in Costa Rica, please reach out to us and let’s talk.