UU Guatemala Scholarship Partners
A partnership in human rights through education—Mayans and Unitarian Universalists
Visit scholarship students and their families
You are welcome to join us on a trip to Rabinal, Guatemala which we organize on a yearly basis
Anne McKnight and Lisa Bickford, trip leaders, talking with students during the school visit.
Alberto teaches Miguel how to weave a traditional Mayan hammock from maguey cactus fibers during a visit to the resettlement community of Pacux.
Delegations
Every year ADIVIMA hosts delegations of people interested in learning about their work in human rights.
Delegates have a chance to meet ADIVIMA staff and visit scholarship students and their families in their homes and schools.
We participate in an intercultural exchange day with the students where we share art, music and dance with each another.
A day long journey takes us to the Chixoy hydroelectric dam and the villages that are now eeking out an existence above the water line of the reservoir.
The trips are led by Lisa Bickford from Jefferson Unitarian, Golden CO and Emily Francomano and Anne McKnight from the UU Church of Arlington VA.
The trips are a way to get to know members of this Mayan community on a personal basis.
For more information, contact Lisa Bickford or Anne McKnight using the email found on the “Contacts”page.
Travel opportunities to visit ADIVIMA
Martina and her daughter-in-law give lessons in making tortillas by hand to Stephanie during a visit to the resettlement community of Pacux.
During the intercultural exchange day with the scholarship students, a Mayan priest demonstrates the symbols and ritualism in a traditional Mayan spiritual ceremony.
Students demonstrate a traditional Mayan dance which elders have been reteaching the younger generation. ADIVIMA is working to recuperate Mayan traditions and customs that are in danger of becoming lost.
Scholarship students and their parents are required to meet with ADIVIMA staff during general assemblies three times per year. Donors participate via teleconference.
Delegates take a launch down the Chixoy reservoir to visit the communities that are eking out a living above the water line after being massacred and displaced in the 1980s.