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Sexto Sol (Sixth Sun)
According to the Maya calendar,
We have entered the Sixth Sun,
El Sexto Sol, the time of Justice
and of the Emancipation of indigenous peoples.
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Please help the schools for indigenous children in the Sierra Madre in Chiapas.
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A Special Request for Help from Edward James Olmos:
The Sexto Sol Center for Community Action has informed me that they were very grateful for your significant support in 2006 for their relief efforts for survivors of Hurricane Stan in Chiapas, Mexico. The non-profit in now in its 10th year of helping people to address poverty in the remote mountain communities in the Sierra Madre. They do this by working with small-scale coffee growers and by teaching people to grow their own food with permaculture, among other
strategies.
An important part of their work to confront poverty is to provide assistance to schools that serve indigenous children. These schools are unique because they are the only places where indigenous children can receive some teaching in their own language in a region where local cultures are under pressure. But as bilingual schools, they receive only a fraction of the funding that other schools do. The buildings are in terrible shape and teachers do not have adequate materials for teaching. Sexto Sol works with schools that don't have proper buildings including one that is located in the flood zone.
Sexto Sol organizes the parents and teachers to make improvements to the buildings and to create attractive play areas for the children. They provide the paint, landscaping materials and training needed to get the job done. They also provide a significant amount of books to schools for libraries to encourage children to read.
Francisco and Tamara, the field team of the Sexto Sol Center, ask for your collaboration to improve the education these children receive by making a contribution to this effort. For more information on the work of the Sexto Sol Center, please see www.sextosol.org. They asked me to tell you that "Changing the world is a team effort". They'd appreciate having you as part of the team. I
encourage you to consider making a contribution.
Thank you,
Edward James Olmos
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All contributions are tax deductible
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Visit the web site of Sexto Sol
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Francisco talks with happy parents after they painted classrooms thanks to paint and training provided by Sexto Sol.
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The Sexto Sol Center is committed to contributing to the revitalization of indigenous cultures in the Sierra Madre and in the world. Education is a very important part of that process as well as a necessary tool for constructing a way out of poverty.
Unfortunately, schools serving indigenous children in the Sierra are terribly neglected and teachers must work with very inadequate facilities and materials. Sexto Sol is working with parentsī organizations to improve the infrastructure and to find ways to make the indigenous culture and language more central to instruction.
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The Sexto Sol Center
3514 E. Contessa, Mesa, AZ 85213-7036
U.S.A. Phone: (480) 854-758
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Sexto Sol
Apartado Postal 64
Motozintla, Chiapas, CP 30900, Mexico
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Barriers to their receiving an education are many. These include poor nutrition, which prevents children from being able to concentrate; poverty which forces families to send children to work; poor materials in the schools; and the simple need to collect firewood for cooking fuel.
In 2005, Sexto Sol made a commitment to provide support to the bilingual schools in Motozintla and El Porvenir. We found that these schools are in serious disrepair and have inadequate teaching materials. No schools have bilingual materials and some do not have bilingual teachers. In the words of the principal in a school without proper walls and no floor, the parents "put up with the insult of the inadequate building because they want their children to know who they are as indigneous people".
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In a region where structural forces have severely pressured people to negate their indigenous origins, Sexto Sol has stepped forward to provide assistance to parents and teachers to improve the schools.
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To the fans of Mr. Olmos, please note this is a cause very dear to his heart. He appreciates your interest, concern, and support very much.
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