Mundo Exchange in Guatemala
Mundo works with local Mayans and supports their self-defined community-based projects that focus on educational and mental health services. Human rights, health, and safety statistics continue to be dismal in these areas. Through the country, an enduring and significant inequity between indigenous and non-indigenous people has always existed. The poverty levels in Guatemala remain higher than in any other Central American country.
Mundo Exchange has helped with mental health workshops, has provided nutritional meals for children, and leadership, tuition assistance, and women’s rights programs. We have also arranged for virtual cultural exchanges between children in the western world and Guatemala youth, have assisted by providing much needed school materials and have helped to purchase a vehicle to take community members to medical appointments and social service meetings in remote areas where violence of war continues to effect our Guatemalan friends.
At this time Mundo provides a few select internships and supports Guatemalans who continue to suffer from the insidious post effects of long-term exposure to violence. In 2009 we helped to bring a group of medical specialists to remote areas of Guatemala where the poverty is extreme.
To learn more about Mundo Exchange projects in Guatemala please contact us at dalyn@mundoexchange.org or call us in the US at 503-227-8442.
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Hey you guys, the website is really starting to look good. I told Dalyn that we have been working hard on a brochure here in the States for Mundo and have done quite a bit of editing on some of the website language. If you would like to see that, let me know…I love all the new pictures and updates on how the volunteering is going. We had some very enthusiastic students from Clark College wanting to come and talk part with Mundo in Thailand. One of them, a young man named Joey, will be writing you with interest in the internship or volunteering. He seemed to have great energy and spirit and has done lots of wonderful work in Vancouver with youth. He is really interested in business/infrastructure development. Just wnated to let you know. Take care. Joan
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Excellent post, keep up the good work. I know Chjul and the Ixil Triangle well. I was a guide/interpreter, resident in Guatemala for 9 years (1985-1994) before I moved back to El Salvador, now working in el Salvador on the ruta pazymemoria, cultural and ecotourism, restoration of villages and monuments damaged during El Salvador’s 12 year Civil War.
An article of mine on Cinquera, a village in Central America (one of
our pilot projects on Rural Ecotourism/Cultural & Historic sites here
in El Salvador) enjoy.
http://www.vivatravelguides.com/central-america/el-salvador/el-salvador-articles/welcome-to-cinquera
Thanks for the article. I have been visiting Chajul for three years now and am growing quite a heart connection to these people. Some of your statistis have help me in a report thanks. I know at least two Ixil in their thirties that have degrees from the university. thanks Michael
http://therippleeffectinc.blogspot.com/