Rights Action
November 29, 2019
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SAVE THE DATE
December 3, 2019 is #GivingTuesday
~ Donations for Rights Action’s Education Fund 2020 ~
‘Giving Tuesday’ is the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving, when Facebook pledges to match all donations made to 501 (c)(3) organizations, up to a total of U$7 million. Rights Action is participating in Giving Tuesday to raise funds for our: Education fund 2020, for human rights & environmental defenders & their children in Honduras & Guatemala
(Primary school, Maya Achi community of Rio Negro, devastated
by massacres and forced evictions caused by the Chixoy Dam hydro-electric investment project
of the World Bank and Inter-American Develoment Bank, 1975-1985)Please note
- To ensure that your contribution will be matched, please donate RIGHT AT 8:00am EST, Tuesday December 3rd, when the matching begins. Last year, Facebook’s funds ran out in 5 minutes!
- This is just the beginning of our year-end campaign. While we would greatly appreciate donations being matched through Facebook’s Giving Tuesday, any amount you can give at any point during this campaign is welcomed.
If you have any questions, please reach out.
Grahame Russell, director Rights Action
[email protected]
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Education fund 2020, for human rights & environmental defenders
& their children in Honduras & Guatemala
Since 1995, Rights Action (www.rightsaction.org) has been funding community organizations in Guatemala and Honduras working courageously for community well-being, and in defense of territory, human rights and the environment. We work to hold the U.S. and Canadian governments, corporations and investors accountable if and when their policies, actions and economic operations contribute to and benefit from exploitation, racism and repression, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
“If there were more music schools than soldiers in the streets,
there would be more guitars than machine-guns,
more artists than assassins.”
Over the years, it has become a major part of our work to also provide scholarships for primary through high school and university studies for children of the community leaders involved in the various community defense struggles, and for some of the community leaders who have gone back to studies later in life, or taken them up for the first time.
(Isolated Maya Q’eqchi’ community of Lote 8, devastated by forced evictions,
repression and gang-rapes related to Canadian mining companies, 2007)
For school year 2020, we aim to raise U$25,000, to continue providing scholarships to:
- 10 children of Maya Q’eqchi’ and Maya Achi land/ human rights/ environmental defenders in El Estor and Rabinal, Guatemala
- 4 Mayan human rights/ justice defender, in Rabinal, El Estor, San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala
- 10 children of Honduran indigenous and non-indigenous land/ human rights/ environmental defenders
(Maya Achi traditional agricultural education project, Pacux, Rabinal)
More information: Grahame Russell, director, [email protected]
Full proposal available on request.
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