A group of indigenous women in Teyahuala have been working together to develop strategies for dealing with the extreme poverty they face. Two main projects are running now. One is for the construction of cisterns for rain-water collection to solve the serious lack of water for domestic use. The other is making soap with local herbs to be commercialised within the fair trade market to generate alternative income for their households (especially for widows and single mothers).
One big concern is that the efficiency of the group has been limited due to a lack of a common space where they can have their meetings and training sessions, store the materials for cistern building, and more urgently, have a safe space to make and store soap (as it uses caustic soda which is highly dangerous and can produce severe burns). This is what the Communal House will be for.
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