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Empowering Indigenous Women in Guatemala: Insid...
Updated March 23, 2026 Guatemala is a country of extraordinary beauty, and extraordinary inequality. For women, and especially for indigenous women, the statistics paint a sobering picture. These are not...
Empowering Indigenous Women in Guatemala: Insid...
Updated March 23, 2026 Guatemala is a country of extraordinary beauty, and extraordinary inequality. For women, and especially for indigenous women, the statistics paint a sobering picture. These are not...
Maya Hair Traditions in Guatemala: Cinta, Tocoy...
Conceptions and ideals of feminine beauty vary from culture to culture, moment to moment—this something that we know to be a universal truth. As a woman, one of my favorite...
Maya Hair Traditions in Guatemala: Cinta, Tocoy...
Conceptions and ideals of feminine beauty vary from culture to culture, moment to moment—this something that we know to be a universal truth. As a woman, one of my favorite...
Volunteering in Xela: Homestays and Friendships
“Expectations vs. reality…” This is the simple yet complex mantra I’ve been whispering to myself over and over my last month here in Xela, while also chuckling about it under...
Volunteering in Xela: Homestays and Friendships
“Expectations vs. reality…” This is the simple yet complex mantra I’ve been whispering to myself over and over my last month here in Xela, while also chuckling about it under...
Learning to Weave in Guatemala: Lessons from Tr...
Has this ever happened to you – in your process of growth, to stumble upon by-products of your efforts and actions that in your perception have no resemblance or connection to the final...
Learning to Weave in Guatemala: Lessons from Tr...
Has this ever happened to you – in your process of growth, to stumble upon by-products of your efforts and actions that in your perception have no resemblance or connection to the final...
Guatemala's Mayan Languages: How Our Weavers Pr...
Although Spanish is Guatemala’s most widely-spoken language, it’s not the native tongue of every guatemalteco. Alongside Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, Guatemala has one of the highest Indigenous populations in Latin America. Nowadays,...
Guatemala's Mayan Languages: How Our Weavers Pr...
Although Spanish is Guatemala’s most widely-spoken language, it’s not the native tongue of every guatemalteco. Alongside Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, Guatemala has one of the highest Indigenous populations in Latin America. Nowadays,...
Ethical Fabric Sourcing in Guatemala: Why It Ma...
Guatemala's Maya Textiles: A Cultural Heritage Under Threat Guatemala is the birthplace of the Maya civilisation, the presence of which is still made very visible today. Towns and cities...
Ethical Fabric Sourcing in Guatemala: Why It Ma...
Guatemala's Maya Textiles: A Cultural Heritage Under Threat Guatemala is the birthplace of the Maya civilisation, the presence of which is still made very visible today. Towns and cities...