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May 7, 2021: Migration & Future Prospects for Maya Ixil Youth in Rural Guatemala
05/07/2021 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM MT

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Over the past 16 years, the women & locally-led non-profit, Limitless Horizons Ixil (LHI), has made it possible for 200 girls to attend school in the rural Ixil Region of Guatemala. LHI is providing vital services for Indigenous youth, who are impacted by the gendered socio-economic and cultural barriers to continue their education as well as the social pressure to emigrate to the USA. Catriona Spaven-Donn, LHI's former International Coordinator who was living & working in the Ixil Region throughout 2019-2020, will provide insights into the challenges and opportunities for youth in the region. She will discuss LHI's new school, currently being built in partnership with the Building Goodness Foundation, as well as some of the root causes of migration and what this means for Maya Ixil girls and young people in their daily lives and future prospects.


Catriona Spaven-Donn works at the intersection of women's rights and environmental justice. She studied Spanish, anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge and has taken these themes forward in her professional life. She is passionate about youth engagement and has worked on female empowerment, creative literacy and refugee resettlement in Canada, Peru, Guatemala and Scotland. She spent most of the first year of the pandemic living and working in the Ixil Region of Guatemala as Limitless Horizons Ixil's International Coordinator. Now back home in Scotland, her current projects include co-developing a podcast series on women's voices in climate justice ahead of COP26, launching an agroecology project with Maya Ixil youth in Guatemala, and initiating a youth ecology programme at a new Commons hub in central Edinburgh, her home city.

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