5.11.2021 UPDATE: FUNDRAISERS FOR COVID-19 RELIEF

Feed Guatemalan Families

Five Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from Totonicapán, Guatemala, including Mujerave's Founder, have teamed up to feed Guatemalan families impacted by COVID-19. As the virus continues to spread in rural Guatemala, public transportation is suspended and local markets are closed. In collaboration with local indigenous women on our Guatemalan Board of Directors, Mujerave has designed a project to ensure that kitchens remained stocked with basic staples during the lockdown in Guatemala. 
Mujerave, in collaboration with Lydia and other local Ministry of Health officials in rural Guatemala, is identifying urgent needs in response to the coronavirus. 
Mujerave is raising money to provide basic medical supplies including gloves and masks to the staff at the Medical Center in Santa María Chiquimula, at right. 
Click on the link below to help us support Lydia and other frontline healthcare staff in rural Guatemala with urgently needed medical supplies. ​

Support Frontline Healthcare Workers

Lydia Lux, a Ministry of Health employee at the Medical Center in Santa María Chiquimula, is also a member of the Guatemalan Board of Directors for Mujerave. According to Lydia, "we don't have anything, no gloves, no masks, not even liquid soap or sanitizer. We see patients all day and return home to our families. We are living and working in fear."
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​$20 - buys one gallon of antibacterial gel
$10 - buys one gallon of antibacterial soap
$5 - buys five medical grade face masks

 Coronavirus in Guatemala

Mujerave's Plan

Our plan is simple – we listen to the needs of indigenous women in rural Guatemala and collaborate with them on sustainable development projects to improve family and community health.

With the support of donors like you, we implement high-impact projects designed by indigenous Maya K'iche' women in Totonicapán, Guatemala. Because our work is informed by thousands of years of culture and tradition, our projects improve family and community health while preserving Maya cultural traditions and reducing deforestation and environmental degradation. 

Where We Work

We work in Totonicapán, Guatemala, where 75% of women and children live in poverty (less than $2 per day). Learn more:

Sponsor a Stove

The power of your donation:

  • $10 buys the cement  
  • $30 buys a metal stove top 
  • $80 purchases the materials for a stove for one family

​One stove:

Sponsor a Greenhouse

The power of your donation:

  • $10 buys the galvanized wire to support tomato plants
  • $50 fills a greenhouse with tomato seedlings
  • $738 purchases the materials for a greenhouse

One greenhouse:​