To improve access to multicultural education for indigenous youth by designing rural educational programs that include indigenous culture and perspectives and strengthen 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 advance the political participation of Q'eqchi women by raising awareness and by developing advocacy strategies and education programs around access to inclusive and culturally competent sexual health and reproductive rights.

To defend indigenous women's freedom from discrimination, violence, poverty and illiteracy by providing education on economic alternatives and by conducting media awareness-raising campaigns to prevent violence against women.

To improve rural development policies, including increasing access to land rights, by organizing lobbying campaigns directed at the national government and implementing food sovereignty initiatives with small producers.

To increase the political participation of traditional indigenous midwives through initiatives which strengthen their ability to advocate for indigenous women's sexual health agendas with municipal governments.

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 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.

To implement workshops, meetings and radio programs supporting Q'eqchí indigenous women to raise awareness and advocate for their rights in communities threatened by the construction of a major hydroelectric dam.

To support RAIS's national network of agricultural producers in Guatemala to improve agro-ecological techniques and practices, raise awareness around responsible consumption and strengthening the network's focus on Solidarity Economics.