Valentine's Day in Guatemala is a very special date, because it not only commemorates the month of love and friendship, but it is a month where people perform different activities to live together, share, and enjoy a special moment with friends, colleagues, and people close to them.

Yo'onik is a center where children learn by playing, sharing, making friends, and sheltering traditional festivities, such as the village festival where everyone enjoys time spent with their family and friends.

The Support of parents is essential for our youth, since it contributes to increasing the emotional state of the students to strive to achieve the goals that are established each year

One of our activities is to motivate the students to receive help and knowledge from their peers who are already at an advanced level.

To work with the target population the team needs to prepare their tools and materials to begin the work. Nothing is better than feeling prepared to battle with sexist, cultural, and marginal ideologies.

I am very grateful to each one of you for making possible all the positive feelings of the mobile library for the children, youth and grandparents of the community of Santiago Atitlan. In every moment of the library last year, I fe;t happiness inside of me and in other people for each story.

This month marks the beginning of Natik's next 5-year Strategic Plan. Since your continuing support is central to our success, for this monthly update, I’d like to share the top-level goals for 2023-2027 . The list is a cryptic synopsis, but it is enough to give you an idea of where we are headed.

These rhombuses have various meanings such as the cardinal points, mother Earth, or their vision of the universe. The most important are the directions east and west because that is where the sun rises and sets. These rhombuses can be found individually or together with other rhombuses or other geometric figures.