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San Cristobal de las Casas, ChiapasMarch 14, 2001 Dear friends,
Please help us construct an opportunity for the Maya women of the Chiapas
highlands. We have received a challenge grant for the year 2000, to continue the
bilingual education program that Cloudforest Initiatives started in the
Maya-Tzotzil village of Magdalenas in the last half of 1999. This program
has been very successful. Five bilingual education promoters are working
with 50 women who, for the first time, are learning to read and write in Tzotzil
and in Spanish. We are coming to you to help us raise $4,000 US to continue a program
that will give the women of Magdalenas the possibility of a better life, a
chance to affirm their rights as women, and to raise their voices in community
activities and political assemblies. Indigenous women are one of the most neglected sectors of the
population, and their rights have been systematically negated by a
situation of extreme poverty, malnutrition, discrimination and low intensity
war. Most indigenous women have never had an opportunity to attend school,
and they cannot read and write in either their Maya language or in Spanish. Will you help us celebrate womens rights in 2000? Will you help us
give an opportunity to the women of a Chiapas highlands village? Please send a tax-deductible check to Cloudforest Initiatives, P.O. Box
16177, St. Paul, MN 55116, noting that it is for the womens project.
Feel free to send this e-mail along to others who will support this initiative
from the Maya women of Chiapas. THANK YOU! GRACIAS! KOLABAL! Teresa Ortiz, Director
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