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Projects and Partners

Guatemala

Project Funding 2010

  • Social and legal support for the right to compensation and justice in former civil war communities, Asociación Campesina para el Desarrollo Integral Nebajense (ASOCDENEB)

  • Empowerment of young persons and children in indigenous communities, Asociación Coordinadora Comunitaria de Servicios para la Salud (ACCSS)

  • Emergency relief for Tropical Storm ‘Agatha’, ACCSS

  • Psychosocial support for staff at the ‘Historical Archive of the Guatemalan National Police’, Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Acción Psicosocial (ECAP)

  • Psychosocial work related to the search for disappeared and executed persons and exhumations, ECAP

  • Forestation project (CO2 capture), Fundación Centro de Servicios Cristianos (FUNCEDESCRI)

  • II International Film Festival Remembrance Truth Justice, Internationale Solidarität und Kulturaustausch e.V. (International Solidarity and Cultural Exchange, ISKA)

  • Support for the regional course at the International People’s Health University in Chimaltenango: ‘Intercultural health: from the perspective of the indigenous population and people of African descent in Abya Yala’, Comité Regional de Promoción de la Salud Comunitaria (CRPSC), Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA)

€312,964.05 (including support from German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

medico’s support for the health association ACCSS

A long history of solidarity

medico’s cooperation with the activists of the Guatemalan health and community organization ACCSS began during the fight against the military dictatorship in the 1980s. medico supported indigenous …

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Guatemala’s Police Archive makes the civil war crimes publicly available

An archive of crime

In a windowless hall young women and men with facemasks and gloves sit in long rows sifting through yellowing, dusty books of files. The staff treat the material with the greatest care. For these …

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Background

If the past refuses to go away

Community work with survivors of the Guatemalan massacre …

 

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