PSYDEH is thrilled to announce multi-year programming to innovate a proof-of-concept for integrating culturally appropriate sustainability-focused tech like solar, as well as information and communication technology (ICT) like satellite wifi, cloud tools, low tech hardware into day-to-day operations, and the rural communities in which we live and work. What is the program? Our multi-year program […]
PSYDEH increased individual and collective agency and solidarity by doubling down on multi-year field programming as well as resource diversification efforts. COVID-19 & Climate change = Fieldwork Opportunities for Empowering Agency & Solidarity The complicated, rural landscape in which we work grew more so in 2021. COVID-19 and climate change cut access to electricity and […]
PSYDEH looks to end 2021 fieldwork on a high by empowering Indigenous women to produce small, collective work projects that have a direct impact on their own communities via an initiative we call “Cuando Amanece” (Nübu Bi Hyats’i / Anu’ abilchan / Quema tlanesi). We do this because, even in the midst of the pandemic […]
The Irish government has chosen PSYDEH to be one of only seven non-profits across Mexico to receive short-term funding through its Ireland-Mexico Cooperation Fund for Human Rights 2021. We use this support to help produce a multi-year program organizing female artisan cooperatives built out of our ongoing pandemic-focused work. Why female artisan cooperatives in 2021? […]
Mexico is constantly being reminded about the realities of climate change. Hurricane Grace, which recently pushed through the center of the country, is another example of the heavier-than-normal rainstorms the country has been experiencing in 2021. Local PSYDEH women staff and partners report landslides, high river and stream levels, downed trees, and flooding in low-lying […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to announce that Hamburg, Germany-based Lemonaid & ChariTea Foundation will help to finance our program incubating female artisan cooperatives through 2024. What is the program? Our multi-year program is built at the nexus of gender equity and economic solidarity, pursuant to a recommendation from the UN Program for the Development of Mexico, […]
Our 2021-2024 program confronts the painful effects of the pandemic on PSYDEH’s work and with Indigenous women and their communities. One of the program’s objectives is to provide direct, personal support to these women and their areas on a more consistent basis. The new PSYDEH field office we call Casa Siempre Viva (CSV) is designed with […]
Mexico was unprepared and surprised by the size and scope of the ongoing pandemic. PSYDEH was somewhat better prepared to deal with some of its effects like an almost 100% cut in Mexican government funding, but we had to cancel most of the 2020 fieldwork. This dual reality – reaping the fruits of our years-long […]
Mexican Indigenous designs and textiles are important cultural emblems, leadership expression and development tools, and an income generator. Take, for example, the contemporary Tenango design known internationally for its unique beauty, but also as a symbol of women’s empowerment. The Tenango Design On April 8, PSYDEH’s new field corp trainer, Argentinian Nani Seizbert, participated in […]
On March 30, Nani Szeibert, one of two new trainers of a key element of PSYDEH’s COVID-19 recovery program, the Indigenous Women Field Corps, participated in a Conversational event for women organized by the Tenango de Doria’s municipal government’s “Women Affairs” office, framed in the month dedicated to women. She writes the following report, the […]