{"id":2156,"date":"2011-11-17T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stirringthefire.org\/blog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:28:58","slug":"the-capable-women-of-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/the-capable-women-of-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"The Capable Women of Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Stirring the Fire comes to you from Guatemala where our team is producing a documentary about how Population Council Guatemala<\/a> is preventing violence against Mayan women. \u00a0STF team member Kara Marnell reports from the field below.<\/em><\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Irma Cat\u00fa is a Population Council Guatemala Social Change Agent<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Capaz<\/em>\u2014Spanish for capable.\u00a0 This word was repeated numerous times while we met with several young, dynamic women who work at Population Council<\/em> here. \u00a0They were speaking, of course, of their capability and the capability of all women to develop independence, to find a voice and express their opinions, to be treated with respect and to have an expectation to a set of rights, including a right to protect their health, including their reproductive health.\u00a0 These women are the leaders of a movement struggling for the future of the indigenous women in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

The Population Council<\/em><\/a>, an international organization, was established in 1952 and started working in Guatemala in 1985 with a focus on improving reproductive health of the Mayan population.\u00a0 Since then, as it has globally, the Council has evolved its mission to seek out the most marginalized and vulnerable and empowering women in a multitude of ways toward gender equity.\u00a0 For example,\u00a0<\/em>Population Council Guatemala<\/a><\/em> has developed a mentorship program, connecting young girls to role models and mentors, thus engaging females in a social support network and providing examples of alternative life paths in order to break this cycle of poverty and violence.<\/p>\n

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The women we are interviewing are these mentors, the women who other Guatemalan girls would admire and emulate.\u00a0 These women spoke eloquently of their leadership roles in their various communities as well as the professional development skills they themselves have acquired through the Council\u2019s funding, support which has allowed them to continue their education.<\/p>\n

In addition to its mentorship program, the Population Council<\/em> also helps develop and leverage the creative skills of its staff to bring attention to its missions through a participatory filming program.\u00a0 This program has deployed 12 girls as leaders, trained to employ video to create awareness, highlight issues, and engage and educate parents, elders and other community members.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Three Guatemalan females, students of Population Council’s participatory film program, create a short segment practicing their production skills.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Finally, we were told of the Council\u2019s creative efforts to develop community intelligence to protect girls with the advent of another project called \u00a0\u2018Violence Mapping\u2019.\u00a0 Females in the program are armed with GPS devices to collect data on the households in their communities.\u00a0 Maps generated from this data identify both safe and danger zones with a goal of creating future safe public shelters for girls in these communities.<\/p>\n

This was an enlightening day, a positive day to see the work that is being done by women for women<\/em> here.\u00a0 These brave women son muy capaz<\/em> and real change is possible.<\/p>\n

Indigenous young women as change agents against violence in Guatemala<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The high prevalence of gender-based violence in Guatemala leaves Mayan women and girls living in poor and isolated communities particularly exposed to risk. In a powerful approach to empower indigenous young women as agents of change in their communities, Population Council Guatemala<\/a>, with support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women<\/a>, is pairing them with mentors from local organizations, to engage them in a range of prevention activities.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the girls undertake GPS-based community mapping, plotting every household, building and route to produce maps that show where girls and women feel safe or at risk. The maps are making young women and their safety concerns visible for the first time, catalyzing community-wide discussion about violence against women and girls and ways the community could come together to prevent it. In addition, Population Council is training a cadre of girl leaders in participatory video to highlight issues of gender and violence in their communities.<\/p>\n

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women<\/a>, administered by UN Women<\/a>, is a leading source of support for efforts to end violence against women and girls across the world. You can join this vital work by donating to the UN Trust Fund<\/a>\u00a0and by taking action at Say No \u2013 UNiTE to End Violence against Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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