Global Humanitaria, with the collaboration of the Ombudsman for Indigenous Women, has traveled to the Caserío Cantón la Esperanza community to give a talk on the prevention of early pregnancy at the Ak’ Tenamit INDRI institute, (Indigenous Institute for Comprehensive Rural Development ).
The session had the active participation of the young students, emphasizing the importance of planning their future and breaking the cycle of early forced marriages. We also give schoolchildren information brochures on how to prevent early pregnancies, what is child abuse, and women’s rights,
INDRI is a community institute that offers basic and diversified education for experts in rural community development. It has 190 students from different departments of Guatemala who come from families in vulnerable situations and who live in periods of three months in the educational center. Its courses are bilingual in Spanish and Q’eqchí Maya and integrate the Q’eqchí Mayan culture, its customs and traditions.
This educational center is part of the development project of the Ak’Tenamit association , in Q’eqchi’ “Pueblo Nuevo”. This is a Mayan organization that works to address indigenous needs in southern Petén. The project includes a gender and community development and health clinic.
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