Chiapas is a living school — and we keep learning together.

Compañerxs,

As this year comes to a close, we pause to reflect and acknowledge all that has grown across the lands and communities of Chiapas.

2025 was full of small, powerful lessons: seeds sown in community spaces and classrooms without walls, hands working together around cooking fires, words shared in assemblies, and the quiet strength of communities that defend life every single day.

None of this happens in isolation, nor is any of it too small. These are the threads of lessons shared, a web of resistance and resilience that we build together. It happens because people like you choose to stay close — to care, to accompany, to support, to believe, and to participate.

Chiapas teaches through its people, its land, its struggles, and its hope.

Learning is not an institution — it is a relationship lived in community, a cycle of which we are part.

Thank you for being part of our community of learning.

In 2025, your solidarity made it possible to:

• Strengthen the little school in Corralito, for the children and for the women;
• Support women and youth in autonomous health workshops on the coast;
• Nurture Sendas as a space for conversation, reflection, and collective study;
• Uphold our solidarity store, which helps sustain families and communities in their autonomy;
• Accompany communities facing intensified aggression and displacement;
• And continue offering materials, workshops, transportation, and tools to fortify local processes of autonomy.

Each gesture of support — a donation, a message, a shared post, a visit — makes up a strand of this larger fabric of care. Thank you for your trust, your presence, and your commitment.

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Hope in action: year-end gatherings in Chiapas

Even in challenging times, communities in Chiapas continue creating spaces that inspire, resist, remember, and reimagine.
This December, several groups and collectives are organizing public events that celebrate life and strengthen connections across communities, including:

• Gathering in Acteal on the occasion of the 28th Anniversary of the Acteal Massacre – December 22nd, 2025.
• Seedbed of “Pyramids, Histories, Loves and, of course, Heartbreaks.” -CIDECI, Unitierra December 26-30th, 2025.

These encounters remind us that hope is not passive and is not sustained in a vacuum.
Hope is something we practice — together.

We will share updated information through our website and social media as these events unfold.

Looking toward 2026: learning that continues to grow

The coming year invites us to deepen the work we have begun together, to:

• Foster workshops in more communities, to accompany autonomy in education;
• Bring resources (material and educational) to health processes led by women and youth;
• Continue development of materials and tools for autonomous education ;
• Support spaces for children, teens, and families to build community and share knowledge;
• Extend networks of solidarity and care, both locally and internationally.