{"id":4198,"date":"2020-09-16T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asociacionama.org.gt\/?page_id=4198"},"modified":"2024-07-11T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:02:24","slug":"respondiendo-al-covid19-departamento-peten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asociacionama.org.gt\/en\/respondiendo-al-covid19-departamento-peten\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to COVID-19 in the department of Pet\u00e9n, Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Responding to COVID-19 in the department of Pet\u00e9n, Guatemala (2020) <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Start Date: March\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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End date: September\/2020
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600 volunteer girls
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Project Description:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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AMA Association due to the stoppage of activities and curfew imposed by the Government of Guatemala, derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, had to suspend face-to-face work and the activities that required the presence of the 600 adolescent girls and young Maya Q'eqch\u00ed' and mestizo women in the year 2020 and the political advocacy activities.<\/p>\n

Facing this new context meant a great challenge for AMA, because we had never worked remotely, neither in the office nor with the beneficiaries, and there was also uncertainty about the position that donors would take in relation to the implementation of the programs.<\/p>\n

However, in this new reality, AMA Association valued the importance and the role it plays in the response to the different problems experienced by the beneficiaries, who not only added another problem to COVID-19 but also worsened the problems they were already experiencing.<\/p>\n

In addition, the government's response is slow and not adjusted to the context of adolescent girls and young indigenous, rural, and marginal urban women, so AMA decided to act, first, using existing resources, second, to strengthen alliances, and third, to manage resources.<\/p>\n

In this sense, we began to use our bilingual Spanish-Maya Q'eqch\u00ed' radio program \"El ABC de la Sexualidad\" (The ABC of Sexuality), to strengthen COVID-19's containment, prevention and mitigation measures since the program was already on the air.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, agreements were reached with cooperating partners to redirect funds, which allowed us first to strengthen operational and administrative sustainability, second to seek new sources of funding, third to access emergency funds, and fourth to promote social assistance actions.<\/p>\n

This sum of actions has allowed us to benefit 265,950 people in communities and marginalized urban Maya Q'eqch\u00ed and mestizo areas in five departments of Guatemala, through 59 broadcasts of the radio program, the placement of 13,000 bilingual Spanish-Maya Q'eqch\u00ed' illustrated educational posters, the installation of four billboards and the delivery of 600 food bags and 600 hygiene kits to 600 adolescent girls and young Maya Q'eqch\u00ed and mestizo women.<\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s, por medio de una campa\u00f1a de divulgaci\u00f3n de medidas de prevenci\u00f3n e higiene del COVID-19 en alianza con el medio de comunicaci\u00f3n en l\u00ednea Noti Sur y la Reina de la Feria Departamental de Pet\u00e9n, a trav\u00e9s de capsulas audiovisuales transmitas en el segmento las 8 de las 8 de dicho medio de comunicaci\u00f3n, el cual tiene 160,000 seguidores.<\/p>\n

In addition, a loudspeaker, two infrared thermometers, and 350 masks were delivered to the Ministry of Public Health to intensify the COVID-19 and violence prevention campaign in Pet\u00e9n, Guatemala.<\/p>\n

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2020 Activities<\/h2>
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Delivery of food bags and hygiene kits.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Direct beneficiaries:<\/strong><\/p>\n