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This edition of the newsletter focuses on
educational sponsorship programs. In Guatemala there are many programs
run by NGOs, Spanish language schools, and Christian religious
organizations that help sponsor children to pay for their education. A
study I highlight below investigated a number of programs throughout the
world, including one in San Pedro la Laguna. The results of this study
showed that in terms of the results it gets sponsoring children is one
of the most effective uses of international aid. The large international
Christian organizations seem willing to include children whose families
could easily pay the costs associated with the education of their child
in order to give them their religious message. The smaller programs of
the NGOs and Spanish schools, because they are more limited, are on the
whole much more selective of the children they sponsor. They chose only
children with the greatest need.
In addition to Vision Maya program, which I work with and mention below, the Maya Education Foundation, part of Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, is another excellent program to sponsor children. Joseph Johnston |
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Featured Artist Mario Gonzalez Chavajay Vision Maya: Scholarships for Children Why Sponsor Children? Frank May's Photographs Rising Lake Atitlán Exclusive Arte Maya Posters Links
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Mario Gonzalez Chavajay Featured artist |
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Mario Gonzalez Chavajay is one of a handful of Tz'utuhil Maya artists who I work closely with. In addition to his exceptional ability to paint, he never repeats a composition. When I first started working with the Tz'utuhil artists, almost every painting of every artist was an original composition. However, making money from the lucrative tourist market has made most artists compromise both in terms of originality (exact repetitions of paintings, both their own and of other artists) and in terms of quality (quickly done, often several a day). Mario paints every painting carefully, spending anywhere from several days for the smallest painting to more than a month for the larger ones. His colors are vibrant and his unique style is easy to recognize. | |||||
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50% off until April 15 Mario Gonzalez Chavajay's paintings |
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Vision Maya a small locally administered sponsorship program |
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Why Sponsor Children? Study shows sponsoring works |
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FRank Mays' Photographs Maya Festivals of Guatemala |
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Rising Lake Atitlan Joyce Maynard |
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Posters
By Paula Nicho Cumez & Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay |
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Exclusive to Arte Maya Tz'utuhil are posters of paintings by Paula Nicho Cumez and Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay. The posters sell for $15 each and are 12" x 18." The sale of these posters helps Arte Maya Tz'utuhil support the artists. | |||||
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