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 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 JUSTA Collective | Aug 22, 2015 | Chacayá, Education, Health, Public Health
By Stephanie Gater JUSTA’s Chacaya Program Coordinator The community of Chacaya lives on the shores of Lake Atitlan, an enchanting and exceptionally beautiful body of water. Their livelihoods are interlaced with the lake – from transportation (my...
by JUSTA Collective | May 13, 2015 | Chacayá, Education, Health, Nutrition, Public Health
What does access to nutrition and health education mean for students in rural Chacaya, Guatemala? Chacaya is a remote indigenous village of less than 1,000 people on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The students in Chacaya Middle School had the opportunity to take part in...
