DELEGATIONS/TRAVEL SEMINARS:

Staff at Cloudforest Initiatives have been leading educational delegations to Chiapas and Central America for over 15 years. We follow an action-reflection methodology to observe, analyze and reflect on our experiences in Chiapas on a daily basis. We do this with regular reflection/debriefing sessions. We work by forming a community of learners to help one another with our travel experience. In our travel programs you will have the opportunity to meet with many sectors of society and experience many aspects of the culture.

Programs typically include: discussions with human rights workers; with womens rights organizers; with church leaders (Catholic and Evangelical) working for social justice; political parties and citizen organizations; economic and political updates and analysis to better understand the reality in southern Mexico; anthropologists and other academics; visits to indigenous villages, to Zapatista communities and to internal refugee camps; as well as cultural visits to environmental reserves, museums, archaeological sites and eco-tourism resorts.

For an application to participate, contact Mya Follansbee at tomas@cloudforestmexico.org or CI phone: 651-592-4143. Or click here.

Cloudforest Initiatives Travel Seminar:

Cost of trip: $490 (Airfare to Tuxtla, Gutierrez not included)
Application Deadline: February 15, 2002
Join a delegation of people interested in coffee production in Chiapas. Participants will: become familiar with the agronomic and biological aspects of small-scale and organic coffee production; learn about economic concerns of small-scale coffee producers including the process of organic certification, Fair Trade marketing and cooperative formation; visit a coffee community and stay with coffee producers.

 Cost includes all ground transportation, meals, and clean modest accommodations. 

For an application to participate contact Mya Follansbee at tomas@cloudforestmexico.org or (651) 592-4143.

Health Care Delegation to Autonomous Maya Clinics

Travel Program in Chiapas, Mexico
Seven Days During January/February 2002
(exact dates to be announced)

Join a delegation of health care professionals and others traveling to Chiapas next winter. Participants in this medical delegation will:

Cost of the trip: $490. (Airfare to Tuxtla Gutierrez not included.) The cost includes all ground transportation to/from Tuxtla, meals, and clean modest accommodations.

For an application to participate contact Mya Follansbee at tomas@cloudforestmexico.org or (651) 592-4143.