By Katie Freund | Partnerships & Learning
Dear GlobalGiving donors and friends,
2025 has been a year full of growth and progress, as well as unexpected challenges. Most notably, in early October southern and central Mexico was effected by catastrophic flooding and landslides in the wake of Hurricane Priscilla, particularly across Hidalgo and Puebla. The flooding caused severe damage across various rural and indigenous communities, destroying homes, roads, and livelihoods.
PSYDEH adjusted our normal activities to focus on disaster response efforts across the region, ensuring that the communities where we work receive the resources they need, including the provision of food and other essential items. As we move into the recovery phase, we are rebuilding alongside local communities, facilitating access to food and medical supplies and strengthening disaster preparedness across the region. To learn more about the impacts of the flooding and contribute to our ongoing efforts, you can visit our new GlobalGiving project here.
New challenges have also brought new opportunities for collaboration. Our emergency response efforts and our unique long-term relationships in the region have given PSYDEH a crucial role to play in coordinating collective efforts, distributing supplies, and monitoring local resources and needs. Over the past two months, we have:
The support of our long-term partners and donors like you has been crucial to sustaining our work and helping us adjust our long-term initiatives in the face of new realities on the ground. Our Tech for All programming and network of digital resource centers proved essential in the immediate disaster aftermath, allowing women partners to gather at solar- and wifi-equipped centers during widespread power outages to communicate with loved ones. Our Sierra Solidaria and Marca Red Sierra Madre programs continue to provide much-needed work opportunities for women partner cooperatives. We look forward to fully reigniting all of our initiatives after our annual strategic planning retreat in the new year.
Now more than ever, we are grateful to be supported by donors like you. As a team we will be taking some time off to rest and recuperate over the holidays, and we hope that you and your loved ones can do the same. We look forward to updating you again in 2026!
Abrazos,
Katie & team PSYDEH
By Katie Freund | Head of Partnerships & Learning
By Katie Freund | Head of Partnerships & Learning
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