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Some fabulous Guatemalan teenage girls could do with your help

Chally

I’ve recieved an email I think you should take a look at. Lucas writes…

[…] I’ve been asked by a group I volunteer with in Guatemala to organize and lead some workshops on video and visual storytelling. The group is called Voces de Cambio, an after-school program for teenage girls that through writing and photography helps encourage participants to construct a new social narrative, one in which they occupy equal and authentic voices within their communities. It’s a great program and does some really amazing work.

It certainly sounds like it. Voces de Cambio has been running in Quetzaltenango since 2006, and in that time many young women have participated in 15 week courses as well as continued afterwards with the Young Women’s Network. It’s the only all-girls afterschool program in the country.

Voces de Cambio needs to raise $7500 (USD) by 22 March in order for the video program to be funded, not a dollar less. They’ve currently got about half the needed funding pledged.

Depending on how much you pledge, you can receive a postcard, prints, or copies of films made by participants in the program. There’s no such thing as too little or too much, so please contribute if you can.

5 thoughts on Some fabulous Guatemalan teenage girls could do with your help

  2. This is the kind of project that I’d like to support. I’m very short on cash these days, but I contributed a small amount. I also posted links on my FB profile.

    One thing I note: I’m not overfond of the idea that high-money contributors can have a video made especially for them (and the idea of rewards in general); it makes me think that high-money contributors from the global north can influence and distort the project and decenter the young Guatemalan women the project is meant to serve. In a nutshell: if you’re gonna donate, do so without expectations of “rewards” (and you can choose to decline any reward on the Kickstarter website).

  3. I sure wish I was able to offer something, because this really sounds amazing. My finances are completely going to shit, largely due to my failing health, and it frustrates me (in many ways obvs) because generally making donations was the one way I *could* support things…and now I can’t even do that 🙁

    BUT – I will pass this on via the webz and hopefully bring some funds to them through others. Thank you very much for posting this, Chally.

  4. This sounds like a fantastic project–I will do what I can to spread the message far and wide!

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