Projects 2022-2024
Indigenous communities strengthen and keep their culture and language alive
260 Indigenous Women from 14 communities in the Highlands of Chiapas who are embroiderers and weavers from the Cooperativa Jolom Maya Etik are implementing their Project Xkuxesel Jluchetik (Making our Designs Come to Life).
They are working to recover ancient designs used in weaving and embroidery that are at risk of being lost. The women are documenting their meanings because "these designs are vital to our identity as Indigenous communities".
Project Partner: Coperativa Jolom Maya Etik
Ach’ Lequilc’op Tseltal Community Radio, with an audience of 40,000 people, become a stronger communications platform — providing communities direct access to relevant information and vital educational programming in the Tseltal language about sustainable living, Indigenous rights, and traditional knowledge and culture.
Tseltal Radio has given women in Chiapas an unprecedented opportunity to develop themselves as broadcasters and reporters, elevating their voices and those of many other women to break down walls of exclusion!
Project Partner:
Centro de Apoyo Educativo para la Comunidad
Indigenous women advance their rights, gender equity, and economic autonomy
100 Tseltal women from 10 communities improve the nutrition of their families and reduce gender inequalities by growing healthy food, generating incomes, and making decisions about how they manage and invest their earnings.
Project Partner:
Centro de Formación Integral para Promotores Indígenas
Indigenous families strengthen their nutrition and health
953 Tseltal and Tsotsil children and adolescents from 24 rural schools in the Chiapas Highlands have access to clean water and sanitation in their schools and learn new habits of healthy eating and hygiene.
Project Partner:
Fundación Cántaro Azul
20 Tsotsil families from 2 communities improve their children’s health and their families’ nutrition by constructing rainwater catchment systems in their homes, improving habits of hygiene, and growing more nutritious food.
Project Partner:
Centro de Investigación y Servicios Profesionales
108 families, from the rural communities Fortuna, El Capulín, Guaquitepec, Pinabetal, San Pedro Tulijá, and San Jerónimo Tulijá strengthen and improve their conditions of health, house environment, and income to enhance their chances of building a better life. Families reduce anemia and malnutrition in children and the frequency of gastrointestinal diseases. Families build healthy domestic spaces by installing gray water treatment systems. 3 groups of women set up 3 productive enterprises linked to their markets (making decorative items, furniture and water purification filters, and honey).
Project Partner:
IXIM