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Help a Mayan Connect with the Global Village
As part of the Mayan Coffee Social Justice Program, we are partnering with Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiché, a Guatemalan non-profit organisation dedicated to helping indigenous peoples reach their full potential through innovative applications of information and communications technologies.
As globalisation penetrates ever deeper into rural Guatemala, small businesses and students find that computer and Internet skills are prerequisites for success. Students need to do research via the Internet. Businesses need computers to work more efficiently and grow their businesses beyond their communities. However, with rural poverty rates over 90%, only the privileged can pay for training courses. Ajb'atz' Enlace Quiché helps Mayan youth cross the digital divide without leaving their language and culture behind. Their training centre is producing a critical mass of empowered youth with the skills and self-confidence to help the development of their communities. They will be able to obtain better employment and will serve as role models for others, showing them the true, useful potential of computers and the Internet. Mayan Coffee’s Social Justice Program sponsors an average of 100 students a year at the Ajb’atz’ training centre. We want to ask our customers to add to this number by sponsoring the participation of additional students in one of their training courses with a donation to Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiché of as little as $30. For more information or to make an online donation, visit www.enlacequiche.org/mayancoffee.html or write donations@enlacequiche.org.gt Volunteers WantedMayan Coffee is seeking part-time or full-time English teachers in Quiché, GuatemalaIn 2007 Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiché is launching an English program and requires volunteer teachers. Candidates should:
Teachers will be paid a standard rate based on the number of teaching hours, and have benefits including use of our Internet café. Internship opportunities are also available for candidates interested in helping our organisation in other ways. Teachers must be able to commit to a minimum of one quarter. Our quarters:
Maximum course size will be 16 and the training room will have a computer and multimedia equipment for teacher use. Training and curriculum material will be provided. For 2007, we will only offer beginner courses. For more information, please e-mail your resume in English or Spanish to andy@enlacequiche.org. or view Enlace Quiche Volunteers NON-COLONIALISTIC LOGOWHAT DOES IT MEAN???………
If you are a coffee drinker it is likely that you support an industry whose production is based on the poverty of its workers and this is perpetuated by the limited access to education. The NON-COLONIALISTIC logo will connect you as a drinker of coffee to the people who grow and harvest the coffee. Your consumption will help implement change to the economical situation of the workers and their family’s access to education. This is done in a transparent manner " where you, the NON-COLONIALISTIC coffee drinker, have direct access to communicate with the scholarship children in Guatemala, the recipients of your support. We can give you the opportunity to be involved directly by way of making a Scholarship donation or volunteering. We believe that the flavours of your coffee are enhanced with the knowledge that your consumption of NON-COLONIALISTIC Coffee will help to implement social changes. One Scholarship donation of $35 will provide 10 weeks schooling of computer skills in a remote village of Guatemala. DRINK coffee with the NON-COLONIALISTIC logo. |
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Cooperative of Indigenous Mayan Coffee Growers
