The Asociación Médicos Descalzos works to strengthen traditional health and mental health resources in twelve municipalities in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Previous grants from the Fund enabled the group to publish a groundbreaking book Yab’il Xane K’oqil: Enfermedades o Consecuencias?, a comparative exploration of traditional concepts of illness and health and some within Western psychiatry and psychology. Since then they have strengthened training and education of the Ajq’ijab’, or Mayan traditional healers, who serve as culturally and economically accessible resources for rural indigenous communities. In 2013, with support from the Martín-Baró Fund, they publishedthe first of six popular education resources, graphic-conceptual booklets designed to renew traditional cultural understandings and practices among local populations. The first publication, Q’ij Alaxik, focuses on an illness whose manifestations include states of dissatisfaction often accompanied by physical and emotional illness and/or a sense of personal failure. These states are traced to a failure to recognize and appreciate one’s vocation and/or personal talents, gifts related to one’s Nawal, that is one’s Mayan spirit or totem. These educational resources are designed to reconnect Maya and introduce ladinos to these longstanding sources of traditional knowledge towards mobilizing preventative mental health care and psychosocial well-being.