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.
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