Madison Guatemala Network Information-

Madison Guatemala Group Listserve
--- We have also just set up a list serve
for people in Madison
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MadisonGuatemala/
This is a group of people that live in the
Madison Wisconsin area and have a common
interest in Guatemala, its people
and issues. We initially got together in
October 2005 to coordinate our activities to
help our friends in Guatemala who
were affected by the floods and mudslides
associated with Hurricane Stan
Since our original dinner in November 2005
where we had more than 300 people raised
over $4,000 for hurricane relief we have
evolved and co-hosted a number of events and
a film series this summer. Most
recently we co-hosted a visit and fund event
for some
Mayaworks
Weavers and their
families in Madison.
Mayworks
is a nonprofit fair-trade organization out
of Chicago that works with about 8 villages
in Guatemala. They celebrated their
10th anniversary by bringing some of the
weavers and their families to Chicago for a
week. Their Madison visited included a
trip to
Vermont Valley CSA, an organic family owned
community supported agricultural farm, a wonderful event and
sale at First Unitarian Society, and a tour
of downtown Madison including the Capitol,
State street and the University.