We’re almost ready to take off on another delegation to Guatemala with 10 professors and students. Our first delegation was a year ago, and was very successful, and our second was this summer. A measure of its success is that most of the delegates signed up for this trip were recommended to come by someone on a previous trip.
In fact, two delegates from this past July are signed up for the November trip.
One delegate from July, a college professor in Orange County, California, has enlisted 12 students from her university to come next January.
So what do we do on these delegations? Our main focus is on women’s rights, and we visit organizations that also are involved with women’s rights, plus government officials who need to understand the situation women face in Guatemala. We’ll meet women’s rights organizations, organizations of survivors of the violence that has plagued Guatemala, the U.S. Embassy who has been charged by Congress to help end violence against women, and others.