by WovenWisdom | Nov 28, 2016 | Chacayá, Education, Health, Public Health
JUSTA has been conducting a series of Sexual Health workshops with the secondary school of Chacaya. The idea comes from alarming facts as the rate of teenage pregnancy in rural communities, the many cases of pregnancy related deaths, the big number of children in the...
by WovenWisdom | Sep 23, 2016 | Chacayá, Education, Health, Lake Atitlán
I began to collaborate with the JUSTA Collective a few months ago. JUSTA helps support the middle school in San Antonio Chacayá (Santiago Atitlán), organizing activities to improve education and health as well as also collecting funds to help the children to continue...
by WovenWisdom | Sep 5, 2016 | Chacayá, Education, Health, Public Health
Sexual health is a theme considered taboo in Guatemala and it is not yet included in the education program for schools, though there is a law that guarantees universal access to contraception and reproductive health education. Sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy and...
by WovenWisdom | Aug 18, 2016 | Chacayá, Environment, Health, Nutrition, Public Health
There is a lot of talk about recycling, about how to use all these plastic bottles, bags and other packaging materials to create something useful or even artistic, giving a value to all the unnecessary packaging, and sometimes with good intention, promoting the...
by WovenWisdom | May 28, 2016 | Design, Fair Trade, Fashion, Lake Atitlán, Volunteering
My name is Catherine. I have a background in fashion and had the opportunity to work with the members of Sabor del Sol for a few months as they were learning to sew on machines and create new designs to expand their business. We focused on aprons but worked on many...
