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 Jackie Mauer | Jan 18, 2016 | Chacayá, Education
The Power of a School Teen parenthood, poor health, malnutrition and poverty are all a part of life in San Antonio Chacaya, where, traditionally education ended in 5th grade. This changed in 2008 with the founding of a (three year) half-day middle school named...
by JUSTA Collective | Sep 14, 2015 | Education, Volunteering
By Kaity Fitzgerald, JUSTA Volunteer at Konojel Community Center Konojel. Kaqchikel.Marquenses. These are words that come to my mind now when I think of Guatemala (or Guatemaya as some say). I spent a fabulous month living in the indigenous Kaqchikel community of San...
by JUSTA Collective | Sep 11, 2015 | Chacayá, Education, Volunteering
By Stéphanie Desruelles, JUSTA’s Chacaya Program Coordinator Hello! My name is Stéphanie Desruelles. I am from France and am the new Chacaya Program Coordinator, following in the footsteps of Stephanie Gater, who had been involved in the project for the past...
