Anadesa: We need you!

Greetings!  I hope you are enjoying the holiday season! ✨✨✨✨

As you probably know, in Santiago Atitlán, over 96% of the indigenous population speak Maya Tz'utujil. Men and women generate local incomes via handicrafts, fishing, agriculture, and commerce.   

In the rural areas men gather and carry loads of firewood, boards, maxan leaves to wrap tamales, and other types of products that they harvest from the nearby fields, forests, and mountains. Many times the men are accompanied by children who help their fathers generate enough money to sustain their families.  

Women sell the family crops and buy food and other supplies at the market. Many women do bead work or weave at home, always accompanied by their children. The women's handicraft work help their husbands' support their families. In the rural areas, it's still common to have 5 to 18 members of a family living together. Some have the possibility of studying, but most don't. 

In this setting, ANADESA targets sustainable community development through education, training and economic development programs for children, youth, and women.  

I'm writing you today because ANADESA needs less than $2,000 to meet their fundraising goal of $15,000 for the year.  

Your donation will help ANADESA continue to offer quality services in education, health, and sustainable livelihoods to as many people as possible in the rural areas around Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. 

Thanks for being part of our journey! 

 🌿 🌺 🌿 Anita 

Executive Director