Traditional Indigenous Midwifery Declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mexico's Yucatán State
Traditional midwifery has a very special and ancestral role in women's health in both Mexico and Guatemala. According to Mexico's...
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- Jun 28
GPA Awards Grant for Eco-Stoves
Women in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca will help construct their stoves. We're excited to announce that we have awarded a...
- Jun 8, 2022
BBC, Nat Geo & W.K. Kellogg Publish Articles on Midwives and GPA's Work
Traditional midwife Lucía Girón Pérez, of Tenejapa, Chiapas, after attending a home birth. Photo Courtesy of Janet Jarman, a Mexico...
- Dec 29, 2021
GPA Expands to the Yucatán!
This fall, GPA launched its Midwife Enrichment Course in Mérida, Yucatán with two groups of Maya midwives. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
- Sep 8, 2021
GPA’s Racial Justice Work Recognized by New England International Donors
GPA has been selected as a recipient for the 2021 Global Racial Justice Giving Grant by New England International Donors (NEID), a...
- Aug 10, 2021
GPA Awards Community Grant to Mayan Women's Organization in Guaquitepec, Mexico
GPA is happy to announce we are awarding a Community Grant to the impressive organization Mujeres Tseltales para la Autogestión...
- Aug 10, 2021
GPA Launches Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign in Collaboration with the Committee for Safe Motherhood
The #COVID19 pandemic is far from over, with cases on the rise in both Mexico and Guatemala. Less than 22% of the population in Mexico is...
- Aug 10, 2021
Spotlight on Sebastiana Pale, Coordinator of the Midwife Movement of Chiapas and GPA's Newest Member
Sebastiana Pale Pérez, originally from the rural community of Chimpil, in the municipality of Huixtán, Chiapas, speaks two Mayan...
- May 21, 2020
Delivering More Midwife Kits Through Partnerships
53 additional midwife kits with personal protective equipment delivered!
- May 21, 2020
GPA Launches Social Media Campaign
On May 5, International Day of the Midwife, and in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, GPA launched the social media campaign to the...
- May 21, 2020
Colectiva Cereza to Help Imprisoned Indigenous Women and Their Children with Basic Supplies
Colectiva Cereza, an organization comprised of 8 women who defend the rights of indigenous and migrant Mexican and Central American women...
- May 21, 2020
Guatemala Housing Alliance to Feed 300 Families
GPA has provided an emergency grant to Guatemala Housing Alliance (GHA), which is based in San Juan la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala, near...
- Apr 21, 2020
Buy A Beautiful T-shirt and Help Threatened Communities in 2 Quick Steps
100% of proceeds go to GPA's Covid-19 Emergency Action Fund
- Apr 18, 2020
Making Masks and Midwife Kits
With a shortage of availability of face masks both in the US and Mexico, GPA board president Kate Kentfield-Kessner in California, and...
- Apr 18, 2020
Guatemalan Villages Face Food Insecurity
We have been in contact with our partner organizations in Guatemala to monitor the situation on the ground. Berta Cúmiz, the Executive...
- Apr 18, 2020
Midwives Take a Stand During Covid-19
More than 500 traditional midwives representing 30 municipalities make up the Nich Ixim Midwife Movement of Chiapas, which was formed in...
- Apr 11, 2020
The Reality of Covid-19 in Rural Mexico
At times, it seems to me that what we are telling people about Covid-19 is aimed first and foremost at the middle class living in urban...
- Sep 11, 2019
"I Gained So Much Knowledge that I Can Now Share with my Community"
At 26, Andrés Guacash Vazques is both a community health promoter working in the indigenous community of Zitin, Chiapas (Mexico), and a...
- May 9, 2019
"I want girls to see that they learn skills and get ahead...."
Meet María García Hernández, one of our outstanding young leaders from the community of Iwiltic, Chiapas who became a GPA intern in 2018....
- Dec 19, 2018
GPA-Trained Midwives in TV Video
TV Azteca, a Mexican media company, produced the video "The Work of Midwives," which features several midwives that GPA has trained. It...
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