Empowering 50 rural young people in Oaxaca, Mexico

We are very happy and proud to present you a few of these beautiful initiatives that have been carried out this year and will continue in the coming year:

The first one is David of the collective “KAO VA” with his initiative “We are what we eat”.
Since the implementation of the initiative and to date, he has meetings with the municipal authorities, with the aim of reopening the Community market of Cuquila. He has made spots for the diffusion of his initiative in his community and nearby communities, as well as posters. 
After several months of planning, the project was inaugurated on the 18th of July and has been held every Thursday ever since. Several people from the community and nearby communities were also visited to participate selling their products on the market. He managed to form a a group of young people who seek to work for the common good.

He also did a workshop on the handling and production of mojarra-fish. The purpose is to encourage the diversity of fresh produce in the community, implemented for youth and adults in the community who are interested in the fish production.

Next comes Maria from the collective “Nursey Neya Juaj” with “Planting red fruits”:
María did a workshop on the importance of consuming and producing our own food. She also made a poster where she schematized the production of red fruits. In addition to involving her neighbors the initiative, endowing them with raspberry plants.

As a collective, they installed the shadow mesh in the nursery, to continue with the production and sales of fruits and plants. She also put on a workshop “A day with dona Mary” where fourth graders were taught to value the importance of speaking Mixtec as well as knowing and valuing local foods.

Moving on with Beatriz. Beatriz is part of the “Organized women’s voices” collective. With her Initiative “Strengthening of knowledge and construction of collective actions in the face of the alert for gender violence in the municipality of the City of Tlaxiaco” she works on the implementation of spaces for reflection, awareness-raising and generation of actions on the problem of violence to women of Tlaxiaco. She monitors the program implementation and application of protocols for attention to violence with a gender perspective and interculturality. She has put on events such as: A Conversation on Purpose of the Alert of Gender Violence in Tlaxiaco, Challenges and Perspectives. Meetings have continued since the month of June.

Workshops: Declaration of the Alert of Gender Violence in Oaxaca. Background, actors and strategies from the citizenry. There were also 2 workshops on Organizational Strengthening, where the purpose was to induce sufficient and necessary conditions for the collective to visualize and fulfill its objectives, goals and commitments, as well as ensuring their continuity.

Lastly  we would like to present to you Itzel and Adolfo from the “Vivero Esperanza” collective. Their initiative “Sowing life” realizes Awareness-raising workshops, plague workshops, graft workshops, reforestation, expansion of nursery, collection of seeds, and collecting and processing of substrate. They also have done some experimentation and forms of propagation, sowing and care of the plants, sharing of the produced plants, and conferences of reforestation. This also includes thematic workshops with such as topics as: nursery, climate change, socio-environmental resilience, forests and water, and forests and trees. They have also created a catalogue of species produced in the nursery for the general population,
and encourage the production of plants in backyards.

In the case of Itzel and Adolfo, they have facilitated various workshops since they started their initiative, and continue to do so.

We want to thank all of you for your trust and for making every imaginable effort to help and support
people like David, María, Beatriz, Itzel, Adolfo and many more!

We  are very grateful to have supporters like you.