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Hurricane Stan Relief Updated Operating Plans 2005 Training of young leaders 2004 Program of complete attention to children 2003 2002 CESSMAQ uses a "hand up, not a hand-out" approach in its ministry. A community must establish its own leadership council as a first step in participating in a CESSMAQ sponsored project. This council decides which of the community's needs are most important. CESSMAQ then works with the leadership council to determine the training and resources required to accomplish the project, arranges for locally appointed people to receive the necessary training, and assists with locating funds to complete the project. More about CESSMAQ methodology. Partnership projects may involve 8 areas of Maya Quiche life: Agriculture Technical training and advice for crops Biblical-theological reflection, on the relationship between man and nature Reforestation and environmental projects Note: World coffee prices continue at 100-year lows. CESSMAQ is no longer supporting the effort to add more coffee plants or coffee processing plants to their program. You and your congregation can still order fair-traded Guatemalan coffee through a PC(USA) program. Read about a 2005 mission trip to a Monte Carmelo, a community of displaced coffee workers supported by CESSMAQ. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the agricultural production program A grant from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Austin purchased two pulpera machines for the coffee harvest. This will help in two ways: (1) the pulpera must be permanently in place as part of the evaluation process for membership in the trading cooperative Manos Campesinos. (2) The pulp and skin removed from the coffee "grapes" will be composted and used as organic fertilizer for the land. Socio-Productive Infrastructure These are called socio-productive projects because they also promote the social organization of the women who are involved in production. Productive activities - Raising of pigs and chickens, traditional fabrics, and buying and selling of fruits and vegetables and of clothes. Loans to women of the communities. Pascuala Chang's story. Training the women in administration, organizing, leadership, and biblical-theological topics. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the socio-productive infrastructure program Presbyterian Women of Mission Presbytery have supported the CESSMAQ livestock project by providing funds for pigs to be raised by Mayan women. Children, adult Sunday school classes, and congregations participated through Pennies for Piggies. Children and Youth Participation of young men and women in a new generation of leaders with Christian principles and values. Schools for occupational training for youth in situations of poverty. Development of Christian recreational and sports activities which include attitudes of tolerance, respect, and recognition of human relations and human rights, and rejection of bad habits and violence. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the program for children and youth Organizational development and leadership Training and development of men and women leaders who are technically, socially, and biblically-theologically prepared with Christian principles and values. Each community will have a committee of integral development and a women's development committee. Community development in Chuisajcava. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the organizational development and leadership program Theological Formation Community and human development that is sustained only economically and intellectually, without the knowledge of God and without the knowledge of our missions as Christians, is susceptible and vulnerable to deterioration and diversion. CESSMAQ's identity as a Christian evangelist. Establishment of centers of theological reflection. Establishment of Christian radio programs, in Spanish and in Quiche. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the theological formation program Health The principal focus is to train the women: Water purification (Future water purification projects will be coordinated through Living Waters for the World.) Training health facilitators Nutrition Preventive medicine Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the health program Education Library for Maya Quiche pastors Literacy training Training of teachers Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the education program Organizational strengthening of CESSMAQ Program evaluation. Higher quality of work. Strengthening finances, techniques, and administration. Detailed CESSMAQ workplan for the organizational strengthening program

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