|
| | Options to Help:
For Hurricane Stan
Information & How to Help (click to new page)
There are many individuals and groups that are working in various ways to try to
do something positive in Guatemala and Central America. The needs and underlying problems and issues are
many. We are going to gradually try to
put on this page links to different organizations and efforts that we know about that provide help
with education and scholarships, healthcare, women's and community groups,
libraries, environmental and natural resources protection,
...etc.
Some organizations and groups have established, long-term programs that have documented track records
and accomplishments. Some have formally incorporated and have
options for making tax-deductible donations in the USA. Many do not.
Some are individuals, schools, classes, churches, communities, hospital groups,
and organizations that have "adopted" or developed a "sister-city" or
"sister-school" relationship with a similar group in Guatemala or
Nicaragua. This is a page in progress and its going to take a while to get
the various groups we know about represented because many do not have web sites.
We hope you will will consider donating to some of these groups or using them
as model for what you or your group can do to help in Guatemala and
elsewhere. If you have questions, suggestions for additions or
comments please contact Lynn at Lynn@terraexperience.com
|
Education and Scholarships
|
|
 Foundations
for Education
I have been encouraging Foundations for
Education to make it possible to use Paypal to donate. Let me know
if you think it would be a good idea and make it easier for you to
donate. (lynn@terraexperience.com
)
|
Foundations for Education
(501c3) provides 155
scholarships for rural Maya students, from 9th grade-University, supports
community projects and provides school materials for rural schools and
teachers working with Bilingual Maya Education..
Students are required to do community projects to
stay in the program as the goal is to form leaders in their villages. They
have a 100% success rate with their graduates working in their
professions. All donations are tax-deductible. The web site is: http://www.geocities.com/foeduinc
and the email is: camay@conexion.com.gt
. They have a newsletter that provides great information about the
program.
|
 Maya Traditions
|
Maya
Traditions is a fair-trade
wholesaler that works with 4 groups of women in different villages in
Guatemala. Terra
Experience
sells Maya
Traditions 16" Fair Trade Dolls and doll outfits to help support
their efforts. They have instituted a scholarship program to pay the cost
of room and board in the city and some expenses for all the children of
the women in their groups who qualify. Today, they are sending more
than fifty kids to school. Tax
deductible donations can be made out to Global Exchange/Maya Education
Fund and sent to Maya Traditions at 3922 Mission St SF CA 94112 Phone
415 587 2172. Global Exchange
is the fiscal sponsor for their projects.
|
| Colegio Maya -- Sandra's
Adopted Elementary School in Guatemala
| Sandra is a friend of mine who originally was
from Guatemala and has lived for many years in Madison, WI. She has
informally adopted an elementary school "Colegio Maya" in
a small aldea outside Cantel Quetzaltengo and a nursing home in
Mazatenango. Sandra works with her friends (including Terra
Experience) to get school supplies, books,
building materials to the 104 students in the school and basic clothes and
supplies to the nursing home. This coming year her major "project"
(in addition to school supplies) is to build a kitchen for the school.
Click
here to see some pictures of the school. This is one of those informal projects is not tax deductible -
but will go to a good purpose. If you are interested in helping, contact Lynn@terraexperience.com |
|
Women's
Health |
|
Clinicas
Maya -
For more information check out their new web
site:
http://www.clinicasmaya.com/
Includes several programs with the purpose to: "To
provide the full scope of healthcare and education that moves the
community towards developing a broad range of healthcare and educational
services."
La Casa De Luz -
I first visited Clinic Maya in 2004 and will
return in January 2005 with supplies and a friend who is an OB/Gyne. I put
together a page on the Terra Experience web site pictures from from
my visit plus a list of supplies that the clinic need. If you have
access to any let me know and I'll try to help you get them to the
clinic.
|
Clinicas Maya Programs
(from their web site)
We believe through the use of
these programs. we are better able to empower the Mayan people to move the
community towards developing a broader range of healthcare &
educational services and self-sufficiency. Our foundation Clinicas Maya in
Guatemala, services our main work of 5 programs:
- Clinica
Naturista - Family healthcare and education clinic, a
primary healthcare facility and training ground for 8 surrounding
villages for their Midwives and community:
- La
Casa de Luz- Dar la luz - a pilot training school &
clinical facility for indigenous midwives
- Orphan
program - Currently support 20 children, living with a
family member, due to death or abandonment, of a mother or father, we
supply healthcare, school opportunities, work, education and basic
needs so they can remain within the family structure of which they are
accustomed
- Emergency
Medical Services - Transportation & training-
ambulance and first responder, fireman etc.
- Neighboring
outreach - This program allows us to respond to a need
that will better aide the communities. Examples are coordinating
surgeries with visiting surgical teams, providing educational &
training programs in rural communities, distribution of donations
where the need is the greatest, etc.
|
| |
|
We strive to support sustainable development,
fair trade, local artisans, their communities and environment.
|
.jpg)
