Buen vivir for Women

Improved women's personal empowerment and economic autonomy in eight municipalities.

Directly involved are 120 women, indirectly involved 1.260 people (875 female and 385 male).

Guatemala is a country in which women are discriminated and limited in their rights because they are women, poor and indigenous - despite the fact that it is a signatory to international agreements to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and gender-based violence, the existence of a National Policy and a Plan for Equal Opportunities. Statistics persist and continue to indicate the increase in poverty, low schooling, economic dependence, lack of economic opportunities and an increase in gender-based violence. Hence the need to be able to access the exercise of their human rights, and for this it must begin with a process of change that begins with thinking about themselves, how women see themselves, how they value themselves and what they feel about themselves, when they achieve that first change and know the causes why they find themselves in a position of subordination. Being aware of what it means to be a woman, how women live and why, allows the need for change to arise.

• Training processes in the dimensions of self-esteem, women's rights and indigenous women, gender-based violence, racism and discrimination
• Alternative Therapeutic Workshops for Indigenous Women and Women on Gender, Self-Esteem, Women's Rights and Indigenous Women, Gender-based Violence, Racism, and Discrimination
• Training and support processes for women in the implementation of self-savings banks
• Training and accompaniment processes for women in the implementation of agroecological gardens and recovery of ancestral practices
• Training processes and accompaniment of women in the production of 4 handicraft products with medicinal plants
• Training processes and accompaniment of women in the breeding of rabbits for self-consumption or sale