By Blanca Castanon Canals | Project Leader
Dear friends and benefactors of Espiral por la Vida:
We greet you with joy and hope you are in good health and in family!
We are pleased to express our wishes of health and good fortune to you, as well as to take advantage of this communication to inform you about the activities carried out during this period in communities in three regions of our state.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS, A CONTINUOUS WORK
In this last quarter, Espiral por la Vida continued accompanying indigenous women of the Zapotec and Chatina ethnic groups who live in Sierra Norte, Valles Centrales and Costa and who make up the Citizen Observatories in each of these regions.
The work we carry out with the women is aimed at strengthening the learning they received at the beginning of the year; in such a way that, month after month, we hold face-to-face and virtual meetings through the zoom platform, to address issues of interest such as their political and economic rights.
We consider it essential to work together with the women beneficiaries to promote their rights and understanding of economic issues, which will allow us later to promote strategies to strengthen their economic citizenship and enhance their political activism.
The participation of women in these meetings seeks to foster their leadership skills in each of their municipalities and that they learn to formulate action plans that allow them to expand their opportunities and access a better quality of life in the exercise of their rights.
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS PLAY AND LEARN ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS
We continued our activities with children and adolescents from seven municipalities in the district of Ixtlán, located in the Sierra Norte of the state. Under the methodology of learning by playing, 6 workshops have been carried out in a hybrid way, face-to-face and virtual, in which we develop playful and dynamic activities to teach them about healthy and nutritious food; they discover reading as a joyful activity that allows them to learn about times, places and characters and a medium that provides them with knowledge; in addition to raising their awareness about environmental care.
In these workshops, the participants learned about the importance of biological and affective nutrition; they shared recipes, stories and legends of their communities and discovered the importance of the ecological footprint of each of the activities we carry out for the care of the environment.
RIGHT TO HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD CAMPAIGN
We are part of a campaign to promote the right to healthy and nutritious food; together with other state and national organizations, we work to promote the exercise of this right through education and awareness to society and competent authorities.
We thank you for your generosity in providing monetary resources, but above all for your confidence in our institution; without a doubt, it represents a commitment to continue working on a daily basis in favor of rights.
The invaluable support you give us is reflected in the formation of the indigenous women with whom we work daily and your generosity is the engine that allows them to begin to trace stories that transform their reality.
Receive our gratitude and recognition.
All the best.
Espiral por la Vida, A.C.
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