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How You Can Be Involved
 There are various ways you can join the Interweaving of Lives that MayaWorks creates.
Volunteer to coordinate a sale
Visit our page for MayaWorks volunteers and read about how to become a volunteer. If you are interested in coordinating a sale at your school or church or in your home or community, please contact us at info@mayaworks.org.
Use a MayaWorks Sale as a Fund Raiser for your Organization
Join a Tour
A MayaWorks Tour to Guatemala is a wonderful introduction to MayaWorks, to Guatemala, and to finding how you can best contribute. For more information about MayaWorks Tours click here.
Become a donor
Here are examples of how your tax-deductable contributions can be put to work for the wellbeing of Mayan women and children:
- Unrestricted Contributions - Contributions of any size help support the US-based work of MayaWorks, including providing support for volunteers, expanding sales and telling the story of our artisans to an ever-expanding audience of interested people.
- Scholarships - the MayaWorks Education Fund ensures that the girls being assisted by MayaWorks Scholarships will be able to continue in school as long as they desire and insures that new girls will be able to join the program each year. MayaWorks provides financial assistance to girls and their families so that school-related expenses are not a barrier to girls attending school. Even for public school students, notebooks, pens and pencils, all must be purchased, as well as shoes, sweaters, and gym shorts. Primary school scholarships of $45, middle school scholarships of $56 and high school scholarships of $70 often make the difference between a young girl received an eduation and being a reluctant drop-out.
Here are some of the young women's dreams that we've heard expressed:
"I want to be a doctor so that I can help my people."
"I want to be a bi-lingual secretary so that I can support myself and my family."
"I want to be a teacher so I can help other children to learn."
Decisions about scholarships recipients are made by local communities. Students must stay in school and maintain good grades to continue their participation in the program.
In Comalapa, MayaWorks has established a Study Center where scholarship girls can go after school to study and receive help with their studies from a teacher. The girls also participate in a program which exposes them to various career opportunities and women who can serve as role models.
- MayaWorks Revolving Loan Fund - A loan of $75 or $100 can enable a MayaWorks artisan to utilize her/his creativity and entrepreneurial fervor in generating income beyond what what can earned from MayaWorks orders. Some women invest in pigs, others chickens. Some grow strawberries. Others buy a supply of thread so that they can weave a specially ordered piece. One woman has established a business selling used hipiles (the woven blouses worn by Mayan women). Another boasts of the bull she's raising. One artisan has a supplementary business selling avocados.
Your contribution to the MayaWorks Revolving Loan Fund will allow us to provide loans to more artisans.
If you are interested in becoming a MayaWorks donor you can donate now by credit card or send a check to:
MayaWorks
1732 W. Hubbard, Suite 1A
Chicago, IL 60622
You can always call us at 312-243-8050 or email us at info@mayaworks.org for more information. We'd be happy to talk with you about various options for giving. |
You can learn more about MayaWorks' financial health and view the latest 990 by clicking on the GuideStar logo below:
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