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Votes from Silenced Voices
Posted on: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Indigenous Rights
Check out our latest project update from the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation in Guatemala.
Women Standing Up to Violence in Guatemala City
Posted on: Friday, January 20, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Combating Violence Against Women
Read a project update from MADRE's partner organization in Guatemala, the Women Workers Committee.
Photo Update from Guatemala
Posted on: Saturday, December 24, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE's Partners in Guatemala Demand an End to Gender-Based Violence MADRE's partner organization in Guatemala, The Women Workers Committee, has been dedicated to ending the epidemic of violence against women and girls in their community. Recently, on the...
Letters from Our Sisters
Posted on: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Keywords: Sudan, Kenya, Nicaragua, Guatemala
You are part of an inspiring global women's movement. Get a glimpse by reading these letters.
Indigenous Women Organize around Guatemalan Elections
Posted on: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin American and the Caribbean, Economic Justice, Indigenous Rights
MADRE is working with our sister organization Muixil to make sure that Indigenous Mayan women's voices are heard.
How a Chicken Can Send a Girl to School
Posted on: Friday, July 15, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin American and the Caribbean, Economic Justice, Indigenous Rights
Since 2007, MADRE has supported a women's chicken farming project in the rural highlands of Guatemala.
Project Update: Emergency Aid Distribution in Guatemala
Posted on: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Keywords: Guatemala, Emergency Relief, Latin America, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
In Guatemala, as many as 112,000 people were forced from their homes following a devastating volcanic eruption and tropical storm last month. In the communities where our sister organization, the Women Workers' Committee, works, an estimated 800 homes were destroyed,...
Send Emergency Aid to Women and Families in Guatemala
Posted on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Keywords: Emergency Relief, Guatemala, Latin America, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
Emergency in GuatemalaSandra Gonzalez, our partner from the Women Workers' Committee near Guatemala City, called me earlier today. She sounded exhausted. Last Thursday, a volcano erupted in Guatemala, spewing rocks and lava and blanketing the capital in black ash. Just...
Farming for the Future: Combating Malnutrition in Indigenous Communities in Guatemala
Posted on: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Economic Justice, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Food Sovereignty
Recent prolonged droughts and a drop in remittances due to the worldwide financial crisis have left many families in Guatemala unable to grown or buy food. To combat this problem, MADRE and Muixil have expanded Farming for the Future, a food security and microenterprise project for Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché.
Stories of our Sisters 2010
Posted on: Monday, April 26, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan
Stories of our Sisters 2010 This month, MADRE published Stories of our Sisters 2010, our Spring/Summer Newsletter. Below you can read the stories from our sisters. To read the newsletter as a whole, check out the newsletter online. If you...
MADRE Programs Combating Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts
Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia, Guatemala, Palestine, Iraq
Guatemala In the past decade, nearly 4,000 women and young girls have been murdered in Guatemala. Many of them, including girls as young as 10, were tortured and raped, their bodies left in public places. As a result, women have...
MADRE Partner at the Launch of UN Campaign to End Violence Against Women
Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, UN
Raising the Voices of Maquila WorkersToday, Human Rights Day, officially marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. The 16 Days Campaign, which begins annually on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
Guatemala: Farming for the Future, Photo Update
Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Economic Justice, Sustainable Agriculture
On a recent worktrip to Guatemala, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg and Program Coordinator Natalia Caruso visited our sister organization, Muixil.Muixil is a group of 350 Indigenous Ixil women living in the highlands of Guatemala. In the 1980s, the highlands were...
Guatemala: Photos from the Helping Hands Oral Hygiene Project
Posted on: Monday, August 24, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Helping Hands, Women's Health
Thanks to MADRE members' support, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg was able to deliver toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash and learning kits to children in the Barcenas community during her recent worktrip to Guatemala.The Women Workers' Committee, MADRE's partner in Barcenas, was...
Guatemala: Farming for the Future, Project Update
Posted on: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America & Caribbean, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Food Sovereignty
Farming for the Future was designed to establish pig farming as a source of food security and microenterprise for Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché department in the Guatemalan highlands. Working in collaboration with our local partner, Muixil, MADRE has...
