The Association of Highland Women will mentor 250 rural young women for success through the women's circle program that organizes mutual support groups that meet weekly. Programming includes peer-to-...
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Gender Equality in Guatemala
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Region: Guatemala
Gender inequality is a pervasive issue in Guatemala, where women face discrimination and violence in both the public and private spheres. Despite legal protections, women continue to experience limited access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as high rates of femicide and sexual violence.
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We provide vegetable seeds and support to women in agriculture! Women farmers produce more than half the developing world's food, yet own less than 2% of land and receive little support - such as seed...
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Indigenous Guatemalan women face layers of oppression as women in a patriarchal society, a discriminated-against Indigenous minority in a colonized country, and as Indigenous people, they are three ti...
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We offer young newly graduated teachers aged 18-24 the opportunity to stay in their communities and to become social entrepreneurs by starting classrooms in primarily rural, Guatemalan Mayan communiti...
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This project trains marginally educated mothers of pre-schoolers from five different rural communities in Guatemala to promote pre-literacy skills and the value of good nutrition. Activities held in t...
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