Atzin Mexico / Atzin Desarrollo Comunitario AC

ATZIN DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO Tlamacazapa，墨西哥www.atzin.org使命:ATZIN是一个在墨西哥注册的非营利性人道主义组织，在加拿大有一个慈善姐妹协会。Atzin帮助农村人民，特别是土著妇女获得更好的生活机会、更强的文化福祉，并通过更和平的治理实现更大程度的自给自足。1997年，Atzin成立，旨在对抗特拉玛卡扎帕贫困和暴力的恶性循环。Atzin在当地语言Nahuatl中是“圣水”的意思。它的人道主义发展项目逐渐出现，以响应社区的需要，现在集中在四个综合部门:健康和治疗，创收和发展。阅读更多ATZIN DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO Tlamacazapa，墨西哥www.atzin.org使命:ATZIN是一个在墨西哥注册的非营利性人道主义组织，在加拿大有一个慈善姐妹协会。Atzin帮助农村人民，特别是土著妇女获得更好的生活机会、更强的文化福祉，并通过更和平的治理实现更大程度的自给自足。1997年，Atzin成立，旨在对抗特拉玛卡扎帕贫困和暴力的恶性循环。Atzin在当地语言Nahuatl中是“圣水”的意思。它的人道主义发展项目是根据社区需求逐渐出现的，现在主要集中在四个综合部门:健康和治疗、创收、教育以及环境、水和卫生。健康和治疗项目包括一个特殊需求项目，一个牙科和口腔健康项目，并支持当地助产士提供安全孕产服务。创收项目为小型企业的发展提供技术支持，例如纺织合作社、缝纫车间和当地妇女经营的小商店。社区教育和扫盲计划将地方责任与持续学习结合起来。这些项目包括针对年轻女性的强化培训学校、针对校外儿童的露天教育项目;为学校里需要帮助的学生提供辅导; literacy classes for women and youth, and an early childhood stimulation program for children aged 1-5 years old. Environment, Water and Sanitation Program introduces an ecological rocket stoves to families. For more than a decade constructed household dry toilets and rainwater harvest tanks, monitored water quality and investigated toxicity from multiple sources and its effects on people. MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY Through these programs, Atzin provides an external presence that is stimulating personal and social change in rhythm with the people of Tlamacazapa. Its goal is to assist villagers to reclaim their cultural identity and strength of personal worth. Working in Tlamacazapa over the past years, the Atzin team gradually pieced together a big puzzle of a complicated village situation. At the beginning, it was easy to see the living conditions of severe economic poverty. It took time, listening, many questions and a digging for data, to realize the critical environmental problems and importantly, the suffering caused by a collective poverty of spirit. A poverty of spirit means that people can't imagine that tomorrow will be any different than today or yesterday. The Nahuatl word, Tlamacazapa, translates as "people who are fearful" and is a cultural reflection of their history. The original inhabitants ran to escape the Spanish invaders more than 500 years ago, settling on a rocky, infertile mountain slope where they found water. An attitude of fearfulness has continued over the centuries, and now is coupled with other negative feelings of insecurity, victimization and rigidity. People tend to be distrustful, jealous of their neighbours and are not able to work together as a community. Hopelessness often prevails, with most impoverished families having little vision for a better future. Bring enough resources to bear on a situation and environmental degradation and economic poverty can be solved if people can work together with a common purpose. But a poverty of spirit crushes this possibility from the start. That's why Atzin focuses on bringing people together to support one another. Whether it's a group of women sewing quilts, preparing food for the school breakfast program, or discussing problems faced by young families, Atzin's approach is people-centered. The task is to create opportunities on many fronts. Individuals learn to trust over time as they share and discuss, help each other, and seek solutions step by step together. Our annual ten day training retreat for young village women is a dramatic example of community building. The training is highly participatory as well as challenging, allowing the women to form friendships, greater insights and a sense of common-unity. This is vital foundational "glue." These women all carry program responsibilities as "promoters" and in turn, influence others in a positive rippling effect. Let us consider the heart of the puzzle: a sense of empowerment always starts with a spark of possibility and grows from within. No one can actually empower someone else or hand them a richer spirit or life. The nurturing of that inner spark is the real work of development. Atzin is about people everywhere working together, patiently, energetically and lovingly, to re-humanize our world. It's about committed individuals making a world of difference.