Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will enable 500 women and their families to raise self-esteem, learn to use a computer, improve communication, and grow their micro-businesses, thereby contributing to stronger local organizations and community development.

Project Message

It is necessary for women to intervene in the decision-making that affects the development of the new technologies, in order to fully participate in their expansion and to control their influence.
- United Nations, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 1995

Who is Running This Project

Organization

Asociación Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiché 2a. Av. 7-19, Zona 5 Santa Cruz del Quiche, Quiche Guatemala Guatemala 502-7755-4801 http://www.enlacequiche.org

Learn more about Asociación Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiché and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 11, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 17, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

First I'x CETEBI (Women's Technology Center) is inaugurated

By Andrew Lieberman - General Permanent Advisor, August 11, 2008 01:53 PM

On March 13, 2008, the first I’x CETEBI (Women’s Technology Center) was inaugurated in the village of Salquil Grande, Nebaj, Guatemala. The center will be administered by the Association for Rural Development of the Ixil Women of Salquil.

The Project was funded principally by HIVOS Foundation with additional support from Global Giving. This is the first of four technology centers to be installed during 2008 by Ajb’atz’ Enlace Quiche and its project partner, I’x K’iche K’amalb’e Women’s Coordinator Group.

The center will have an Internet connection, as well as 6 computers, 2 printers, a digital camera, a digital video camera, and a scanner. An important addition to the center design, based on the needs of the local women, is a small games area that children can use while their mothers receive courses or make other use of the center’s services.

This is the first access to Internet available to this community of 4,200 people, and will also serve another 4,000 people in the outlying countryside. Thanks to the support of HIVOS Foundation and Global Giving, the members of the women’s group will receive scholarships for training courses as well as technical assistance in administering the center. To make the center self-sustainable and to support the whole community’s development, the center will also offer courses and Internet use to the general public, especially students.

Attachments:

• Ixil Mayan Women at Center Inauguration

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