Local Partner: Colectiva K-luumil X’ko’olelo’ob
Chunché’ Ts’ak (“The root of our medicine”) aims to contribute to the recovery of the Mayan health system in western Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico, through intergenerational tsikbal (dialogues), traditional medicine practices and the establishment of the U Najil Ts’ak (“the house of healing”). The objective is to promote intergenerational spaces of healing and collective care among Mayan women and enhance community health in the territory.
The proposal include the implementation of autonomy through indigenous community health, the recovery of practices and knowledge about the medicine of the grandmothers, opening school spaces for the transfer of knowledge through dialogues, meetings, and intergenerational exchanges, as well as healing spaces for girls, young women, adults, and Mayan grandmothers.
U Najil Ts’ak (la casa de curación) contará con el equipo suficiente para la elaboración de medicina, almacenamiento, compartir conocimientos en colectividad.. Celebración de la Primera Feria de la salud U k’inbesajil maalo’ob kuxtal (“celebrando el buen vivir”. 60 mujeres mayas de dos regiones de la Peninsula de Yucatán (Bacalar y Calakmul) participan en el espacio de la escuela “juntas florecemos la vida”.. Seis sesiones de la escuela por grupos de edad, 1 encuentro de niñas y adolescentes, 3 encuentros intergeneracionales. 40 niñas, niños, adolescentes participan en espacios de diálogo y recuperación histórica de la enseñanza de los abuelos y abuelas.
Local Partner:
Luumil X’ko’olelo’ob (land of women in Yucatec Maya) is an organization made up of 16 women from four communities. The intergenerational collective of Women of the West of Bacalar, works for a dignified life, through spaces of resistance and hope where the work, the word and the knowledge of women are made visible and vindicated, as a commitment to the defense of community health, territories and life.
