MEXICO : Eco-Friendly Livelihoods for Women in the Sierra Madre - IPS ipsnews.net: "JALPAN, Mexico, Mar 1, 2011 (IPS) - They live in a town with an apt name, Soledad (Solitude) de Guadalupe, of just 50 houses, most of which are inhabited by women on their own, in the Sierra Madre mountains in the small state of Querétaro in central Mexico.
Here, in a large converted shed that operates as a ceramics workshop, nine local women make pottery, selling an average of 1,000 hand-made pieces a month. ...
The pottery workshop is part of a community improvement programme run by the Sierra Gorda Ecological Group, an environmental organisation active for more than 24 years in the eastern Sierra Madre mountains.
The programme is focused on boosting the income-generating capacities of peasant women in this area, where most men leave at young ages, mainly to the United States. It is involved in 40 mountain communities, through small productive projects that include the installation and management of rustic restaurants using sustainable energy sources in ecotourism spots."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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