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PROJECT
Help Support Youth Environmental Education at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala
Our goal is to raise $1000 to provide K’aslem Work-Study stipends for 2 months. These stipends, averaging $100 a month per K’aslem Promoter, provide urgently needed income to the recipients, making it possible for them to buy their own food, clothing, medicines, and even to be able to pay their own children’s school tuitions.
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The Charity
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Los Cimientos Alliance
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Health, Education, and Mediation
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6 Donors
2 Projects since October, 2007
1 Active Project since November, 2008
Charity Info
Based in: Carmel, California
Year founded: 1991
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Project Info
K’aslem Promoters are learning sustainable reforestation, organic agriculture, responsible garbage management, and recycling in addition to providing environmental community service by renovating forest and nature trails, presenting environmental and cultural exhibits, teaching creative use of recycled water bottles and plastic snack-wrappers, and volunteering in schools to teach the concept of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Visit kaslemmandala.wordpress.com for more information about us and our programs.
LOS CIMIENTOS ALLIANCE/USA
K’aslem Mandala Environmental Education and Youth Leadership Program:
Brief History of Los Cimientos Alliance – K’aslem Mandala Program
For 14 years, The Los Cimientos Alliance, a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization located in Monterey, California, provided humanitarian support and human rights advocacy to the Maya K’iche community of Los Cimientos in El Quiche, Guatemala. Our web page at www.livezone.com/maya tells the story of the people of Los Cimientos as they struggled to survive and our work with their community.
K’aslem Mandala Environmental Education and Youth Leadership Program and the social/economic conditions for young people in rural Guatemalan Maya villages:
While we helped to resolve the K’iche land issue, we also observed that the needs of children and teenagers were being ignored. There are few job opportunities. Much local crime is poverty driven, a result of desperate economic circumstances. In Oct 2005, Tropical Storm Stan caused a nationwide environmental disaster and high death toll. Local poverty immediately increased - along with crime. We started an environmental pilot project working with at-risk youth in the area to teach them how to maintain a healthy, productive environment and to provide educational and economic opportunities.
We pay work/study stipends for young men and women to learn and teach environmental principals while improving economic conditions in their homes. A central focus of our program is a large organic garden, The Mandala, on our newly purchased land in San Lucas Toliman. We also provide individual literacy tutoring, educational opportunities, artisan design and marketing skills, and micro-enterprise development.
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