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Updates
from the As the Fund works to develop closer, ongoing relationships with our grantees, we are beginning to receive more periodic updates from our partners. The following are summaries of recent messages from three of our groups. Indradevi
Association, Phnom Penh, Cambodia The Association
of Maya Ixil Women -
Chajul,
Guatemala CHAJUL REPORT (in Spanish): In July 2002 M. Brinton Lykes visited ADMI, one of the Martín-Baró Fund's projects in Chajul, Guatemala, and traveled with Gaspar Ijom Pacheco, the project's Outreach Coordinator, to learn more about their work. A summary of her visit appears in the Fall, 2002, issue of The Just Word. Details about the villages described in that article were drawn from Gaspar's report, Breve Informe Sobre el Projecto de Salud Mental e Historia del Conflicto Armado en las Comunindades de Chajul. INFORME DE CHAJUL: En Julio de 2002 M. Brinton Lykes visitó ADMI, uno de los proyectos de la Fundación Martín-Baró en Chajul, Guatemala. Viajó con Gaspar Ijom Pacheco, el Coordinador de Alcance del Proyecto para aprender más sobre su trabajo. Un resumen de la visita aparece en la edición de Otoño 2002 de The Just Word. Los detalles de las aldeas descritas en el artículo fueron obtenidas del articulo de Gaspar Breve Informe Sobre el Projecto de Salud Mental e Historia del Conflicto Armado en las Comunindades de Chajul.
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along
with a number of homes, and factories that employed hundreds of people.
The group has relocated to a small house donated by one of the people
with whom they had been working, who recently died of AIDS. Because
of this crisis and an overall decline of funding, Indradevi has had
to stop offering stress management workshops in the community. However,
they report that they have recently trained 15 new volunteers who will
work in the community as peer counselors, another example of the remarkable
resilience of our grantees. 
Some
of these women, who were photographed and interviewed as part of the
PhotoVoice project, subsequently requested help in establishing women's
groups in their villages, through which they might explore the effects
of the war and institutionalized rural poverty on their lives as women.
ADMI's leadership was shocked and saddened by the death of Sister Barbara
Ford, a U.S. citizen who had lived and worked in the Quiche region for
many years, and had worked with ADMI in developing its current mental
health work. 
Despite the increase
in violence and death threats against human rights workers that characterizes
Guatemala in recent months, ADMI is continuing its work. Currently operating
from three separate, rented spaces in Chajul, it has recently launched
a fundraising campaign to build a new center to house its programs.
Any contributions or suggestions about sources for their building fund
can be forwarded to the Martín-Baró Fund. We will be happy to pass them
on. 
