SINCE 2016, WE have INVESTed 10% OF OUR MONTHLY GAINS BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES.
This is one of our main actions of manifesting our vision of wellbeing in rural Mexico. For us the wellbeing in our communities can be achieved through our local traditional midwives and they are on the top of our list of people we support.
This is an action of solidarity towards traditional midwives, wisdom keepers and local communities.
WHEN YOU HAVE PURCHASED FROM US YOU HAVE SUPPORTED:
- A local midwife and her birth house in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca.
-monetary support for the midwife and for the construction and repair of the buildings on the ranch,
-baby clothes,
-baby blankets,
-necessary medicines,
-fire pit to warm up the birth room,
-service.
This midwife works with a donation base and does not charge for her work so this has been extremely important for us. This is one of our long-lasting support targets.
- Construction of the sanitary rooms and kitchen of a community birth house of a traditional midwife in the community of Amatenango in Chiapas.
- Construction of traditional temazcal (sweatlodge) and sanitary rooms at the birth house of a traditional midwife in the Mixe-community in the mountains of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca.
- The Grandmother Midwives Council: Keepers of the Ancestral Wisdom of Mexico.
- Travel costs for traditional midwives form Oaxaca and Chiapas to attend a breech and twins training in Oaxaca City. Workshop is facilitated by Breech Without Borders (USA). https://breechwithoutborders.regfox.com/oaxaca
- Antama paid laboratory tests, ultrasounds, hygiene products, and necessary medication for pregnant migrants and small children in Oaxaca through the volunteer midwives; Parteras Apoyando Migrantes (PAM).
- Local rehabilitation center in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca, which is part of the midwifes project with her husband. Monetary support and tequio/service. The center has worked with a donation base since many decades and does not charge for the work so reciprocity is important.
- Low income families.
- Newly-married couples with projects that aim to provide work and health in rural Oaxaca (Mountains of San Mateo Río Hondo and Nochixtlán, Oaxaca).
- Food and construction materials for families who lost their homes due the pass of hurricane Agatha on May 2022
- Reconstruction of homes affected by the earthquakes in 2017-2018
- Help for our artisan and their family member in a health situation that asked for chirurgical procedures and by that meaning high costs.
- Construction of an eco ranch in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca.
- Preservation of native forest in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca, more than 6 hectares.
- Sponsoring Micelio Sierra Sur Festival 2023, first festival of art and fungi world in Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, bringing the arts and science to our community. Plenty of workshops of art and mushrooms to children and adults. https://miceliosierrasur.com/
- Food and construction materials for families who lost their homes due the pass of hurricane Agatha on May 2022
WHAT WE AIM TO SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE:
At the moment we are building a workshop for small children about physical autonomy and sexual health (-22). Pilot course started at -23.
- Projects of food sovereignty
- Sexual education of children
- Local productors and farmers
- Health Community projects
- Workshops that look for making an impact for liberty, health, against violence and independence especially directed towards local women
- Midwives, midwives and midwives