Interamericana is a Canadian charity founded in 2005 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The charity's purpose is to improve the standard of living of poor communities in Latin America by giving local inhabitants access to vital tools and educational resources. In the spirit of local empowerment, Interamericana is working with local community leaders in El Chimbo, Honduras to improve the low levels of health, education, and living standards that have existed in the region for decades. El Chimbo is a village located 15 km from the nation's capital, Tegucigalpa.

In June of 2006, Interamericana began constructing a vocational training center in El Chimbo. Dr. Antonio Urrello, one of the founders of the charity, is now an Emeritus Professor of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Urrello has supervised various land development and building construction projects in El Chimbo, and he set aside a portion of his own land for the training center's construction and permanent location.

Using computers donated by the University of British Columbia, the center will focus on teaching employable skills that will lead to greater self-sufficiency for villagers in the region in keeping with their economic, cultural, and environmental needs. Some of the most important necessities in Honduran communities include clothes making, shoe repair, traditional medicine, basic employment skills, self-sustaining agriculture, and environmental preservation. The center will offer free courses taught by local Hondurans to local villagers in these critical areas.

The beneficiaries of these training programs will be the doubly forgotten village inhabitants who receive almost no help from their own governments or any attention from national and foreign investment groups. The primary reason for this situation is that the affected inhabitants do not have enough purchasing power to be considered a significant market for goods offered by national and foreign companies.