By Alejandra Rosado | CEO
Hi there! It has been a while since the last update. In Una mano para Oaxaca (UMPO) we have noticed that “uncertainty” is the general diagnosis of Planet Earth, but here we are sharing with you beautiful news that have returned happiness to our hearts.
After COVID-19 started and the lockdown turned to be normal, we were very worried about finding a way to continue our workshops. As you know, the communities in which we work are still being rebuilt, the psychological effects of the earthquake are still deep. So this halt in our lives, because of the economic recession and the threats that isolation poses to a indigenous community, comes with a lot of challenges.
We adapted our workshops to the needs of our people. We are focusing our efforts in the traditional knowledges that allow us to have food sovereignty and strengthen our immune system. All what we teach can be applied from our houses, we use the flora of our territory and the local products to create medicine and our own food.
These last months we learned about family backyard gardens for self-consumption, avoiding fruit waste with conservation and fermentation processes, natural pharmacy at home, femenine health and herbalism for women. The results have been awesome, we have adapted workshops to an audience even larger and more engaged than the one we worked before the cuarenteen.
The key for this to work, is that we are using a semipresencial way of teaching for people who don't have the possibility to access digital media, and also, that participants who have access to digital media and internet are sharing it with others who don't, by their own initiative.
We are very proud to share this achievement with you, because the actual vulnerability of communities is providing a positive side for making stronger ties between women, creating new work-from-home cooperatives and reducing hunger in the zapotec region.
Today, 92 new women have joined the UMPO family, and we dream together to build more opportunities for everyone.
Thank YOU for making this possible.
PS. Thanks to all the support that we have received from you UMPO won the Rural Youth Innovation Awart in Latin America and the Caribbean (link below)
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