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Joining Forces for The Benefit Of Guatemalan ...
Joining Forces for The Benefit Of Guatemalan Women and Their Families
Ben Blevins
Removing obstacles to Education in Ecuador

HSP introduces a new program to assist rural indigenous students access opportunity.  HSP is partnering with the Foundation Yanapak Yachachikuna that stands for “Servant Teachers,” in the Kichwa language to assist rural Indigenous youth meet entry requirements for National University, increase access to technology and promote the understand that technology and Indigenous culture are not mutually exclusive.

 

 The FYYChE is directed by Kichwa leadership, serving Kichwa communities and is organized around

Removing obstacles to Education in Ecuador
Ben Blevins
VMI Cadets perform outstanding service to ...

When people complain about millennials not being productive, they have definitely not worked with the Cadets of VMI.  Vania Murcia and Alexander Josiah Alvarado engineered a solution to a water crisis in the community of Nuevo Chuicutama and designed an appropriate reservoir tank to ensure the community had year round access to water.

 

 

VMI Cadets perform outstanding service to community
Highland Partners, Trips
Ben Blevins
Water System Completed for Nuevo Chuicutama

HSP summer 2017 teams from Dusty shoes, Aldersgate UMC Church and the Stanton district completed a water tank for the 35 families of Nuevo Chuicutama.  The community was facing months without water due to changes in weather patterns and increasing population. 

Water System Completed for Nuevo Chuicutama
Alternative Trade, Alternatives Boutique
Ben Blevins
Ethics in the Mayan Marketplace

A voluntary and often unconscious practice of redistributive justice exists in the indigenous marketplace based on social relationships embedded in Mayan cosmology. 

Ethics in the Mayan Marketplace

Agency Over Actus Reus: Protect Oak Flat

Agency Over Actus Reus: Protect Oak Flat

HSP has partnered with BJC in their National effort to save Oak Flat. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel loosely translated to “Oak Flat” in English is a part of the ancestral homelands of the Apache, Yavapai, Hopi, Zuni, and many other Nations in the Southwest. Qualified as a Traditional Cultural Property it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is a site of religious and cultural ceremonies, a burial ground, and a sacred space for tribal members to source medicinal plants, food, and water. The Apache People see the land as sacred and alive and have been caring for and communing with Chí’chil Biłdagoteel for centuries.

The Opportunity is in the Problem

The Opportunity is in the Problem

HSP is a network of social workers, scholars, faith-based community members, and Indigenous change-makers partnering to solve critical social and ecological problems. We utilize the methodologies of Participatory Action Research (PAR) " to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions to issues of pressing concern to people" (Reason & Bradbury, 2001). PAR utilizes a spiral of steps, each composed of a circle of planning, action, and reflection about the results of an action.

The Roots of Conflict Between Santa Catarina Ixthueacan and Nahualá

The Roots of Conflict Between Santa Catarina Ixthueacan and Nahualá

The typically quiet and isolated region of Santa Catarina Ixthueacan and Nahualá has found its way into international newspapers over the last month. An explosion of violence includes the December massacre of thirteen people, including four children between the ages of 5 and 16, from Santa Catarina that were visiting the village of Chiquix in Nahualá to harvest corn. The latest episodes of civil unrest have roots in centuries past that are aggravated by the inequalities of colonialism, migration, international drug trafficking, and the pandemic.