The Center for Mayan Ixil Education and Development works with youth and women in the rural town of Chajul and surrounding villages. This is an area where the country’s thirty-six years of civil war and entrenched poverty have profoundly affected individual mental health and community life. The Martín-Baró Fund’s support over the past year enabled ACEFOMI to expand its work to four additional villages, as well as to increase activities in the town of Chajul itself. They report that the response of participants in the project over the past year has been very positive. This year’s grant will strengthen the community impact of the project’s work. The women of ACEFOMI will hold four workshops in each of ten identified indigenous communities. The workshops will address mental health and human rights issues, discuss the importance of gender equality, and examine types of organization and leadership within indigenous communities, as well as specific problems that affect the community including poverty, youth gangs, and family violence.