Irena’s Love for Guatemala: A Reforestation Story
Read about Y’abals collaboration with Irena DeLave and her organization, Love For Guatemala.
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Update on Yabal Communities During Pandemic
Guatemala now has over 7,500 cases of coronavirus. There are multiple reports of inadequate hospital staff, food, medicine, and beds in centers attending patients with Covid-19. Promised government economic help and food aid has managed to reach very few of the most desperate in the country. And the virus continues to increase daily, troubling given
Continue reading »Meet Y’abal’s 2016 Micro-credit recipients.
Each year, for the last 8 years, Y’abal has offered micro-credits to between 15-20 families in the community of Chuicutama- without interest. The majority of the families use this small credit to rent farmland in other communities- with better growing conditions than the soil in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. However, some families use the money to
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