
The Central America Youth Fund (CAMY Fund) is a program of the Seattle International Foundation (SIF) that supports youth leaders and activists in the creation and implementation of projects that ensure the full and equitable enjoyment of youth rights.
Youth in the region lead the forefront of social movements and develop creative approaches to achieve social, systemic and sustainable change in their communities. They seek to challenge and transform existing power structures and draw on artivism, new media, and innovative social and political advocacy strategies to amplify their voices and stories and facilitate the advancement of their agendas.
Created in 2014, SIF’s CAMY Fund provides flexible funding, support and technical and political accompaniment to youth-led initiatives, collectives and organizations in Central America. Its objective is to strengthen youth social movements in favor of human, social, gender and racial, and sexual and reproductive rights. With a perspective of collective care and territorial defense, the fund promotes the well-being of the partner organizations with which it works.
Focus
We focus on prioritizing the needs of the partner organizations we work with and on creating inclusive and respectful spaces for people who live in the region and work from their own vision.
The CAMY Fund brings together partners and allies to exchange learning and experiences and build peer-to-peer networks. It complements its commitment to youth through research with inclusive and participatory approaches.
Over the past nine years, the CAMY Fund has established itself as a leader and the only fund of its kind that finances youth specifically in Central America and Mexico. In addition to expanding its geographic reach and resources, it provides accompaniment to youth-led organizations, collectives and movements working in three key areas:
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights and the defense of the rights of children, adolescents, youth and gender-dissident persons in the area of sexual and reproductive health.
- Social justice and support for youth organizations and movements committed to human rights, equality and non-discrimination.
- Collective care as a strategy for action and sustainability through the prioritization of a holistic health approach, with emphasis on mental health, psychosocial support and holistic safety.
The Right to Choose Oracle
Before you is the Right to Choose Oracle, a unique and innovative tool to guide and support youth activists supporting the right to choose in Central America.
This deck consists of 26 cards with messages from various Oracles that you can collectively or individually print out, cut up and play with to find inspiration, guidance and answers.
Each Oracle card provides a message for individual introspection and group discussions, as well as a brief explanation of the invitation extended by each Oracle. As a whole, the deck is an opportunity to learn through play, joy and relaxation.

Oráculo por el derecho a decidir Full color

Oráculo por el derecho a decidir Blanco y negro

Guide for the Right to Choose Oracle
Also available is the Guide for the Right to Choose Oracle, which not only offers messages from the Oracles, but also summarizes knowledge of activists working and fighting to defend the right to choose in Central America, including their context, partnerships, donor dialogues, self-care practices and more.
We hope that this resource will strengthen the right to choose in the region, and that the youth may use this tool to guide and inspire them in their efforts.
The Story of CAMY Fund

SIF’s CAMY Fund, founded in 2014, has grown and evolved in its first decade. Learn more about the creation of the Fund, its impact, and where we hope to go in the second decade.
Publications
Upcoming events
August 14, 2024

Webinar
Transformative Youth Building Knowledge to Drive Social and Political Change
Join us for an interactive conversation between CAMY Fund and grantee partners as we exchange experiences on the role youth-led organizations play in organizing and training young people to demand social and political change.
This event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation available in English.
Blog
Team
The CAMY Fund has a team of people with experience and commitment to the youth of Central America and Mexico. Get to know them: