This dynamic and innovative program is training sixty Mayan women in Women’s Health Care at three remote rural health clinics in the highlands and Lacandon Jungle regions of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Each month, a core group of five experienced women health promoters gather in a centrally located health center to meet with specialized teams of medical professionals. During the week-long session, the “trainer of trainers” group creates, through discussion and exchange, a thematic module or curriculum which will then be shared with the Indigenous Women’s Health Care Promoters in four outlying regions. In the weeks between the monthly training sessions, the women who have participated in the development of the training modules travel to rural centers and train 60 Indigenous women health promoters in a continuing monthly training cycle.
