A big thank you to all who contributed funding to reprint 3000 coloring books. The total money raised — nearly $4000.00 came from several sources — friends, colleagues, and several small foundations and a portion of my sales over last year. The reprinting was only accomplished through collaborative effort of the original coloring book designer, and others providing expert translations of changes in the text. Rights Action (www.rightsaction.org) provides us our non-profit status.

A network of Maya schools in Guatemala (Consejo de Escuelas Mayas Jun Ajpu Ixb’alamke) and other programs with affiliation with the Instituto de Lingüística y Educación. Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala collaborate to distribute the coloring books. Always, the goal is to affirm and celebrate the cultural importance of Maya languages and the arts and crafts of Guatemala and to increase consciousness and knowledge of them by the children who use them.

The guides, Kids and Fair Trade – A Teacher’s and Parent’s Guide and Learning from the Maya About Diversity, Culture and Ecology are designed to help children to learn about fair trade, Maya arts and culture.

More information on both teacher’s guides as well as links to online and print versions here: Teacher’s and Parents Guides.