To support a network of community education-focused organizations to advocate and raise awareness for the right to bilingual and intercultural education in rural indigenous communities.

To improve access to multicultural and inclusive education for indigenous youth through support for rural educational activities that include aspects and perspectives of indigenous culture and aim to strengthen indigenous identity and youth leadership.

This grant will support the integration of a community-based, holistic, culturally pertinent and transformative education process into state education systems, involving youth, community leaders, teachers and local general populations in advocacy and in the formulation of appropriate teaching techniques and curricula.

To conduct community education sessions on sexual health and to provide training and support to women so that they can assume leadership positions within the coordinating committees of their communities.

To facilitate workshops for women on how to earn sustainable income; and to create campaigns to raise awareness about and prevent violence against women.

To work on an organizing campaign directed at lobbying the national government for improved rural development policies, including increasing access to land rights.

To strengthen the political participation of traditional community midwives and their ability to advocate for women's health agendas in municipal government spaces.

To strengthen FPCR's advocacy and national organizing efforts against hydroelectric projects through popular education and awareness-raising with affected communities as well as alliance building with other organizations and community groups resisting the construction of megaprojects.

To provide professional and vocational training for indigenous youth, as well as to continue to develop FNE's highly respected educational methodology and operate its educational center, focusing on developing a sustainable education curriculum that is culturally appropriate.

To support culturally pertinent and historically accurate education with rural indigenous youth, partially through the collection of oral history and its inclusion in curricula, as well as in advocacy efforts with the state as part of the national advocacy network AMEP.