Support Maya-Achi Climate Resilience

As Maya communities have long understood, the health of human communities is closely tied to the wellbeing of the earth.

The community of Rabinal, where Voces y Manos has worked since 2009, is in the heart of Central America’s "dry corridor." It is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. Summer rains which sustained the Mayan system of agriculture for millennia have abruptly become unpredictable and scarce. Yet far from abandoning ancestral farming practices, climate change has motivated many Maya-Achí families to recuperate them.

With your help, Voces y Manos' team of Indigenous youth leaders will:

• Plant thousands of trees

• Create dozens of greenhouses

• Help farmers save and exchange native seeds

• Use agroecological alternatives to fertilizers and pesticides

• Help farmers strengthen and sustain the Sistema Milpa, or polyculture of corn, beans, and squash

Thank you for supporting Indigenous and Youth-led solutions to the climate crisis!

-The Voces y Manos Team