Buena Semilla’s annual report of activities and finances.

Buena Semilla Project / CIET International in Guatemala is a small Guatemala-based NGO that nurtures the wellbeing, gender equity and self-determination of Indigenous populations of Guatemala. Through Women's Circles and other collective spaces for women and men, we support individuals in rising up to their full potential and becoming agents of change in their lives and communities. This annual report highlights our activities and finances in 2020…

Throughout my PhD, I have been collaborating with project Buena Semilla in Guatemala to develop a participatory, community-led intervention to address the social determinants of indigenous wellbeing in marginalized indigenous communities in Santiago Atitlán, Sololá, Guatemala. I returned to Guatemala for the final phase of my fieldwork to carry out an evaluation of the pilot intervention…

Women’s Circles as a culturally safe psychosocial intervention in Guatemalan indigenous communities: A community-led pilot randomized trial

By: Anne Marie Chomat, Aura Isabel Menchú, Neil Andersson, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Duncan Pedersen, Alexandra Bleile, Paola Letona and Ricardo Araya

Persisting, and in some cases widening, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities have been extensively documented throughout the world, especially affecting maternal and child health. Nowhere is this more apparent than among indigenous populations, which consistently face worse health conditions and reduced life opportunity than their non-indigenous counterparts.