Beyond being important pollinators, bees can also be the key to economic opportunities for communities. That’s what Pueblo a Pueblo is hoping to achieve through our sustainable livelihoods initiative: using beekeeping as a tool to help community members earn fair wages, in addition to highlighting the importance of bees in our ecosystem.

As Earth month comes to an end, we’re happy to announce a new initiative that Pueblo a Pueblo is working on: creating a learning center to teach sustainable agricultural methods to the local community.

In Guatemala, a historically patriarchal country, machismo - the idea of exaggerated masculinity and male dominance - unfortunately remains deeply entrenched into the culture. Pueblo a Pueblo spoke with some of the women that we work to support in order to hear their stories and experiences about womanhood in the town of Santiago Atitlán.