K’inal Antzetik works with communities of resistance to support community-organizing, strengthen community networks of support, and craft culturally appropriate community strategies to deal with the psychosocial and emotional consequences of regional violence against native people. The area in which K’inal Antzetik is located has suffered years of state repression against indigenous peoples, giving rise to the Zapatista uprising.

This year’s grant will be used to run mental health and human rights workshops in a number of municipalities, and to support mental health visits in the communities as well as meetings of health promoters. The group will train more human rights and mental health promoters to work on issues concerning the nature of human rights and the denunciation of human rights violations. Mental health promoters will also learn how to take testimonies from victims, provide psychosocial and emotional support, and initiate legal advocacy.