One Equal Heart

Give BIG to support Indigenous youth in building bright futures! 👩‍🌾👷👩‍🔬 Please donate TODAY 🙏 here: /donate In an era of rising division, where the principles of empathy and justice are frequently under siege, your presence in the One Equal Heart family is more vital than ever. Together, we continue the essential work of uplifting Indigenous youth in rural Chiapas, bridging the gap between systemic exclusion and genuine opportunity. 🌟 Guadalupe Guzmán, a 14-year-old girl from the San Ramon community in Chiapas, has been participating in the “Young People Empowering Their Future” project for eight months. Already, she feels a growing sense of empowerment 🙌: “I enjoy attending the workshops because I didn't have the opportunity to continue my schooling due to a lack of resources. Before this project, my life was very different: I simply stayed at home, helping with household chores. I was unmotivated. I felt very shy about participating in any group. Now, every time I attend a session, I feel like I’m going to school. I learn very important things. I had never heard about contraceptive methods or sexual relations before; these topics are simply not discussed in my community. But now I realize just how important it is for me to know this information for my life! It allows me to protect myself when I am in a relationship and avoid pregnancy or marrying at a young age. It allows me to pursue my education and my dreams.” 🙏Will you donate so that Guadalupe and other Indigenous youth like her can increase access, voice, and agency to build bright futures of their own making? 🫶Your gift will transform the lives of Guadalupe and 69 other Indigenous youth to increase their opportunities to build the life they envision. By investing in empowering youth with tools to take charge of their lives, we spark in them a catalyst for good that can be leveraged to build opportunity, gender equality, and economic growth. 🙏Please make your donation TODAY: /donate

Hi Everyone, Greetings from San Cristobal in Chiapas, Mexico! 👋 🇲🇽 This International Women’s Day, we celebrate the strength, achievements, and resilience of Indigenous women in South Mexico. 👩💐 Thanks to your support, One Equal Heart accompanies young girls and women here in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula to find their voice and keep breaking barriers to create a better future for their families and their communities. 🙏 We visited our partners and communities, and this time we were honored to be accompanied by Cecilia Barja 🙋‍♀️, a donor of One Equal Heart, and David Salmeron 🙋, President of our Board of Directors. Our visit has revealed powerful stories and testimonies about how your support inspires positive change in the lives of women in Chiapas. 👭 🫶 Please click on the link to keep reading: https://mailchi.mp/oneequalheart/newsletter_08-8339488

Hi Everyone, 🎄🔔 As we look back on the past twelve months, one thing is clear: none of this would have been possible without your generosity. Your support 🤲 has been the engine behind every life transformed and every milestone met by Indigenous women, young people, and families in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula, who participate in One Equal Heart projects. THANK YOU for believing in our work and for choosing to make a difference. With deepest gratitude, The One Equal Heart Team🙏

Hi Everyone, As we approach Thanksgiving, we want to celebrate Maya cultural values of gratitude, including thanking Mother Nature for the bountiful life-sustaining power of the corn crop, the much-needed rain, the value of work in our lives, the cooperation with people around us, and the powerful act of giving thanks from the heart. Thank you for making a crucial difference in supporting the mission of One Equal Heart, upholding the hard work of Indigenous families and communities to live more healthy, sustainable, and equitable lives! With gratitude, The One Equal Heart Team

Hi everyone, In celebration of Dia de los Muertos, we invite you to Seattle Art Museum on Thursday, November 6th, from 5-9 pm at 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101. Free! Join us at this community celebration to experience traditions, music, dance, and delicious food, and engage in hands-on art activities for all ages. As part of the event, Fulgencio Lazo will exhibit the large-scale sculptures created through the In Solidarity Project in collaboration with schools, immigrant groups, and organizations, including One Equal Heart. The sculptures will be featured alongside Fulgencio’s magnificent tapete (sand painting) installation. This celebration invites us to embrace life and memory through art, and to come together as a community to honor the spirit of Día de los Muertos with the joyful acceptance of death as a natural part of our journey. We look forward to seeing you! The One Equal Heart Team

Hi everyone,🎨 We are excited to invite you to join us in person for our Art & Solidarity event on Saturday, October 4th, at Casa Latina in Seattle. This will be a special evening of collective creation and connection across cultures and borders, with world-renowned artist Fulgencio Lazo. 👨🏾‍🎨 / You will have the unique opportunity to participate in creating a sculpture that honors immigrants, community resilience, and ancestral knowledge. Space is limited. Tickets are $45. RSVP and purchase your ticket at We look forward to seeing you! Thank you 🙌🏻 For more information, click here: https://mailchi.mp/oneequalheart/newsletter_08-8335597

Hello everyone! Check out our 2024-2025 Annual Gratitude Report, now available online! Packed with highlights, photographs, and testimonies, the Annual Gratitude Report is our yearly look at how your generous support helps to generate transformational change in the lives of women, children, and families in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula. Read the full report here on our website: /2025-gratitude-report

Greetings from Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico! During our visit, we organized a workshop for the Go Birding Program volunteers to encourage them to come up with ideas to deepen the program’s positive impact on the participating children and their communities. The idea of this workshop was inspired by the story of Hilda Huitzil. Hilda is a Go Birding volunteer guide from Punta Arena, a small community on the Mexican Caribbean coast. Hilda is also the mother of a daughter who is visually impaired. Not only did Hilda overcome many challenges to become a volunteer guide, but she also went even further, beyond what anyone expected! She and her daughter, Estrella, created two bird guides in Braille by hand, using a Braille slate to punch out the raised Braille characters one at a time. One guide includes 25 species of marine birds and the other 30 species of terrestrial birds. Hilda and Estrella want to open the doors to the Go Birding program to include other visually impaired children in nearby communities so they can learn about birds and connect them with nature. Hooray!!! Hilda’s initiative shows us the power of creativity, compassion, and transformation, a message that our One Equal Heart family values. Thanks to your generosity, One Equal Heart will support Hilda's initiative to reproduce five copies of the bird guide in Braille through a partnership with the Washington State Braille Access Center. Read our last newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/oneequalheart/newsletter_08-8334802?e=d9a8e8d158

GIVE BIG Today to Support Indigenous Girls in Scoring Goals for Equality! ⛹️‍♀️⚽ Please donate TODAY here: /donate In these challenging times, where some of the loudest voices are questioning values we have previously held dear, we will not back away from joining our hearts 🫶 and hands 🙌 to build inclusion and equity in the most challenging environments, especially in rural Chiapas, where young women's lives from birth are diminished and undervalued. I want to introduce you to 👧Magdalena Gómez, an 18-year-old Tsotsil girl from Chiapas, Mexico. When I saw her in March, she shared with me her experience of participating in One Equal Heart’s project “Scoring Goals for Equality ⚽” that links soccer training and team-building with curriculum focused on life skills, personal empowerment, and gender equity. “Here in my community, girls hardly ever go out, not even to play soccer. Men in Santiago El Pinar get angry when we're playing on the field. They tell us ‘Go home to make tortillas! Go home and do girly things!’ Since the soccer project began, I've had a place to learn about my rights, discover my abilities, and develop them. As a girl in a community that refuses to give us the simplest rights, I feel overwhelmed with gratitude for the opportunity to learn a sport with a coach! I believe this is very important for my life. It gives me strength in my heart to not get discouraged. Participating in this project shows me that girls can change our communities.” Magdalena’s experience of exclusion and discrimination is one she shares with most of the young Indigenous women in her community. But you can help 🙏unlock the doors to opportunity so that Magdalena and other Indigenous girls can thrive! Your donation 🤲💚 will make it possible for Magdalena to continue participating in the Scoring Goals for Equality Project to increase access, voice, and agency for girls in her community. This is your chance to score a BIG GOAL for equality! 🙏Please make your donation TODAY: /donate

Hi Everyone, In celebration of Earth Day🌎, we warmly invite you to a special Boat Tour ⛴ on the Duwamish River on Saturday, May 17th, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., departing from the Harbor Island Marina south of downtown Seattle. 👌Join us for this guided river tour, hosted in collaboration with the Duwamish River Community Coalition, as we learn about the river's significance to Indigenous and urban communities along its shores, environmental challenges, and the community-led solutions working toward environmental justice. Buy your ticket here: / Participation is limited to 25 guests, with a minimum donation of $30 per person to help cover the costs of the tour. From the Duwamish to Mexico, we can learn how rivers connect and call us to stewardship! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, May 17th!

Hi Everyone, We invite you to celebrate International Women’s Day🚺, a day that belongs to all who care about women's equality and human rights. We recognize the strength, resilience, and achievements of Indigenous women in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Despite the challenges such as gender inequality, discrimination, and violence, Indigenous women have continued to break barriers, proving that they are unstoppable! 👏 However, our work is not finished! Every single one of us has a role to play in this process. Change begins with awareness, and action follows awareness. 🙌 Your partnership with One Equal Heart supports equal rights for Indigenous women and girls in southern Mexico so that they have opportunities to grow, thrive, and succeed. Thank you! 🙏

Hi everyone! 🎄🔔☃ This year your generosity has made measurable impacts in Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula: Indigenous women are producing food for their families and living in healthier homes. They are saving income from selling what they produce and investing in micro-businesses. Indigenous children in rural schools are drinking clean water and using hygienic bathrooms. Indigenous women and teens are working as community radio reporters and producers advocating together for their human rights. Thank you 🙏for helping to make this transformation possible! With gratitude and warm wishes for a joyful holiday. The One Equal Heart Team 💗 👀Take a look at our end-of-the-year newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/oneequalheart/newsletter_08-8330262