We are excited to share that new PSYDEH collaborator Scottish Roisin McAuley has produced ten bite-sized animations, whereby she turned our six-minute animated lesson into ten maximum-seventy-second-long-videos, five in Spanish and five in English, videos like indigenous women’s challenges in rural Hidalgo, or 7 keys to sustained development of communities. We will use these trailers […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Roisin McAuley, a Scottish writer, videographer and designer. Roisin joins us as PSYDEH’s strategic communications consultant. Her duties include helping PSYDEH with digital communications, including working to create our 2019 annual report and updating important PSYDEH material, as well as marketing and public relations where she will […]
USA-based Feedback Labs recently invited to PSYDEH to publish an article in their 2020 blog. In this piece, “To know is to be known: storytelling is foundational to actionable feedback“, we explain feedback gathered with and from local partners helps PSYDEH to develop projects that reflect local demands and needs. And how the 2019 storytelling […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to be chosen by GlobalGiving (GG), the world’s leading nonprofit crowdfunding platform, as one of only 12 organizations to participate in their 2020 Project of the Month Club (POMC). Claire Hilton, GG Marketing & Communications staffer, states, “PSYDEH was chosen by GlobalGiving staff to receive this honor out of 3000+ other nonprofit […]
In early January, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met with the Nahuatl and Otomi peoples of the Otomi-Tepehua region of Hidalgo. The meeting’s goal was “to get to know the realities and aspirations of the life of the indigenous peoples of the country, as well as the solutions and alternatives that are being proposed, […]
With the experiential-learning oriented “embroidery initiative”, a key element of the ongoing “Fruits of Change” project funded by crowdfunding with GlobalGiving, PSYDEH backs women leader artisans’ crafts to help these budding businesswomen improve understanding of such concepts as quality control and production and pricing. Here, PSYDEH invests in one of the women partners’ few available income streams […]
PSYDEH produced many wins in 2018. We made a sustainable impact in our fieldwork. We integrated a new Mexican government funder and diversified funding streams. And we built the global digital communications platform necessary to navigate 2019-2020 funding cuts. Our 2018 Annual Report celebrating these wins is designed to merge attractive design thinking and a […]
Our November 27 event raised awareness among students, faculty and administrative staff of the Universidad Politécnica de Tulancingo (UPT) on the elimination of violence against women through the UPT forum “Indigenous Women’s Leadership”. PSYDEH also used the event to promote our work to students with the hope that, in 2020, we will solidify our formal […]
The new Andrés Manuel López Obrador six-year term as Mexican president has brought with it varied major changes. For example, his social policy strategically turns the government away from supporting NGOs like PSYDEH in favor of organized groups of citizens, especially rural indigenous communities. As an organization, we are ahead of our time and somewhat […]
About a year and a half ago, PSYDEH began the design of a storytelling program that spoke to the demands of our indigenous women partners in the field. We had continuously heard from women that stories and narrative traditions were a crucial part of their heritage and their daily lives, but also that they felt […]