Mexico: Water Quality Testing, Recycling Plastics

Author(s)

• Craig Davis, University of Dayton

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

8-23-2007

Abstract

La Chinantla, located in the Uxpanapa Valley of southern Mexico, is a tropical farming village home to roughly 4,000 people. The Uxpanapa Valley is positioned in the middle of the Tehauntepec Isthmus, which connects Mexico’s mainland to the Yucatan Peninsula. When ETHOS students went to Chinantla in the summer of 2007, DECAMP was working hard to develop a women’s program and to expand the albergue (student dormitory). The objective of the women’s program is to create confidence among the mothers and daughters of Chinantla. Social events such as volleyball games, cooking big meals, and evenings of music and dancing are constantly taking place at Casa San Isidro. The women really enjoy the recreation, and whether they realize it or not, the existence of such events has created an amazing vehicle for the empowerment of females in Chinantla. So many households are riddled with disloyalty and violence in southern Mexico that it is difficult to go a day without hearing about a new scandal. This motivates DECAMP because it doesn’t have to be this way. Social inequality and domestic violence are not a necessary part of Mexican culture, and with the women’s program, DECAMP has crafted a mechanism for spreading this truth.

eCommons Citation

Davis, Craig, "Mexico: Water Quality Testing, Recycling Plastics" (2007). ETHOS Technical Reports. 98.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/98