ABOUT Us
Collaborative
We are a student-run organization by the University of Michigan's BLUElab. Along with our partner NGO, CasaSito, we focus on identifying and executing sustainable development solutions in Guatemala.
Our team promotes socially-engaged design and creates leadership and learning opportunities for our members and partner communities through environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable engineering projects.
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Since our team's founding in 2004, our team has been involved in a variety of projects. More recently, in 2019 and 2020, our travel teams conducted a needs assessment in the home communities of various CasaSito-sponsored students in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala and worked with families to develop solutions.
In the summers of 2023 and 2024, travelers from our team visited Guatemala and implemented 8 ventilated stoves and 4 mechanical washing machines for the families of Casasito Scholars. In summer of 2025, our team built 4 additional ventilated stoves and conducted a needs assessment for a new rainwater collection project. ​
Our Team
Our Partners
Mission: Create opportunities for Guatemalan youth to achieve their academic, personal and professional potential, so that they can transform their future.
Vision: To be an association that provides youth with a development program that is both human and professional, in a family atmosphere.
Sa'Nima' Collaborative is a proud partner of CasaSito, a non-profit organization that supports Guatemalan youth and their families through scholarships, educational workshops, extra-curricular activities, and more.
Sa'Nima' works with CasaSito co-designing sustainable technology that supports CasaSito scholarship-recipients and their families.
For more information, visit CasaSito.org