CMPI was informed that we were selected as a recipient of the first round of 2024 funding from the Metlife Foundation’s Community Impact Grant Program this past summer. Our team is honored to be one of many national organizations to have been awarded this funding. The Metlife Foundation grant is providing the Community Impact Grant Program to support local grassroots organizations such as CMPI in addressing the emergency needs of the Maya community in Omaha, Nebraska, which is impacted by [...]
Local Nebraska Organizations Celebrate with Maya Forest Gardener Receiving University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Chancellor’s Medal in Support of Ancient Indigenous Farming Lessons for Agriculture Omaha, Nebraska, February 7, 2023 – An Omaha Delegation made up of Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim (CMPI) and RegeNErate Nebraska, traveled last month to University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in support of Maya Regeneration Project partner, Maya Master Forest Gardener Narciso [...]
In the most remote parts of Guatemala and around the world, solidarity is crucial to overcoming challenges and rebuilding life after disasters. Such is the case in the parts of Maya Territory ravaged by hurricanes Eta and Iota last year. Several Q'anjob'al, Chuj and Akateka Maya communities were partially or even totally destroyed, and residents were forced to leave their homes and take refuge with relatives or in shelters to survive. Coordinating with the Ancestral Plurinational Q'anjo [...]
At the beginning of this project, we proposed focusing our training of ancestral medicine on women. However, the community requested that we expand it out to include men. In order to respect their autonomy, the project is now being directed at five men and seven women between the ages of 13 and 58. This diversification of ages is an opportunity to exchange the knowledge that already exists about Mayan medicine, strengthen it, and guarantee its continuity for generations. Of se [...]
It is incredible to see how a small action can have big impacts in a community, especially when that community is geographically isolated, but powerfully organized. As part of the support and accompaniment that we are providing to the community of Blanca Flor, located 15 kilometers up a dirt road in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, on April 13 we delivered a computer, a printer, a desk, and an office chair to furnish a community office. This donation was in response to a [...]
An update on CMPI’s Maya Health in Maya Territory Initiative We believe that everyone should have access to quality, culturally appropriate health care, regardless of their location, nationality or language. This is why we launched our Maya Health in Maya Territory Initiative in September of 2020. Unfortunately, since its launch, Maya Territory, already heavily affected by COVID-19, was ravaged by two powerful hurricanes just a week apart which destroyed homes and buried ent [...]
The science of medicine has been developed in all civilizations to preserve health and life. Its evolution required long processes of experimentation with the properties of natural elements and in this way identifying cures for each illness. In the Akateko, Chuj, and Q’anjob’al nations, situated in the northern department of Huehuetenango, as in the whole of the Maya territory, the majority of this ancestral medical knowledge has been preserved. This includes va [...]
