Impact Spotlight
Solar for 5 digital resource centers
Access to internet for hundreds of women and their families
Digital training hubs to promote women entrepeneurship
About
In the Sierra Madre mountains of Hidalgo, Mexico, up to 86% of the population lives on $80 USD or less. Hidalgo is one of the most marginalized regions in Mexico; it’s also the most biologically and linguistically diverse.
Here, PSYDEH works with women in the zone’s four majority indigenous areas — Acaxochitlan, Tenango de Doria, San Bartolo Tutotepec, and Huehuetla. While reliable economic data is hard to find, PYDEH’s experience and research shows that there is no industry. Eco-tourism attractions are plentiful, but the region has little infrastructure to attract and support any sizable tourism trade. With minimal opportunities for economic mobility, the Region’s citizens frequently migrate to urban Mexico and the USA.
Corrupt politics, low education levels, and little apolitical leadership training, especially for women, perpetuates generations of gender disparity and discrimination. Combatting decades of disenfranchisement, PSYDEH invests directly in these Indigenous women as community leaders to propel local, social and economic development.
“I believe that spaces for women built by women are necessary and urgent. We need more circles like of work-support like PSYDEH offers... that listen, embrace, promote and strengthen empowerment and understanding between women.”
HF Partnership
With the Honnold Foundation’s support and in direct collaboration with women leaders, PSYDEH is bringing 5 solar powered technology hubs to communities that previously lacked access to most Information and Computer Technologies (ICT), including the internet. Accompanied by a digital inclusion program that includes technological literacy programs, PYSDEH is using solar to drive sustainable social and economic development opportunities led by women across the region.
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