Introducing Trece Hilos a non-profit organisation based in Guatemala
Oxlajuj B’atz’ (Thirteen Threads in Mayan language) is a non-profit indigenous women’s empowerment and non-formal education organization based in Panajachel, Guatemala. Thirteen Threads is constituted by 13 Maya women’s groups throughout rural Guatemala. It has been founded with the aim of helping widowed women and their families, after the 36-year war and genocide that happened in Guatemala. The organization is entirely managed and carried on by women coming from Maya communities in rural towns with a high rate of poverty, discrimination, lack of education, health care, political participation, and jobs.
As they apply fair-trade principles in their activities of handicraft and entrepreneurship, the sales of their handicraft products go partially in support of the social and development programs carried on in the Maya communities. By sustaining Oxlajuj B’atz’, you can participate actively to the empowerment of Maya women in their communities, and consequently to the creation of an inclusive and more just Guatemalan society.
Welcome to family :) Follow me back and I will surprise you on August 1 ;)
Hello!! Glad to see more people like you - here joining steemit! Becoming a steamian is a great adventure! Here you can win money while bloging! At the beginning it wouldn't be easy, but it isn't impossible. So just write from your heart and everything will be allright. Wish you much luck! Cheers!
Greetings, @duhov!
Welcome to Steemit, @mercadosaway!
Hope you enjoy being here!
This message was written by my
introduceyourself
bot, but I'm a real user :)Shall you have any questions, feel free to reply to me. I'll gladly answer your questions :)
You can also go to https://steemit.chat and chat with the Steemit Community over there!
Interesting post.
Welcome to Steemit! You will rock here! Followed. Follow me back 😘
Welcome here @mercadosaway . Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me at @mekong
Congratulations @mercadosaway! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
You made your First Comment
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honnor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP
By upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how here!
👉 CLICK HERE
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now