Please support SURCO and their vital cause(s) in Oaxaca, México!
SURCO, A.C., which has been a program partner to many universities for over a decade, is in financial distress and needs your assistance. As a result of the pandemic, SURCO had to put their international education programs and workshops on hold, and this has directly impacted the livelihoods of those that work with the organization – and continues to do so as they struggle to make ends meet.
Many of you know or were taught by Oliver Froehling, the director of SURCO, during your time in Oaxaca. He is working to maintain and build the non-profit back up again post-pandemic by seeking grant funding for 2024, but unfortunately the process has been a slow one during this recovery period. We are aiming to raise $10,000 to assist Oliver, staff, and those that depend on SURCO to bridge them with payroll coverage and partner funding until March when SURCO will receive grant funding to continue operating.
We’re reaching out to you because you were connected to the many Oaxaca educational programs and know what an incredible vision and mission SURCO has working with local and indigenous communities throughout Mexico on various topics that range from indigenous rights to alternative & traditional education. We all learned so much from Oliver throughout our enriching experiences in many indigenous communities there.
SURCO has always been at the forefront of social, educational, and environmental issues since its inception 25 years ago. As most of you know, they have created strong partnerships in many indigenous communities with a focus on the reality of ecological change and human diversity that traces back to ancestral injustices. Today, Oliver and team interweave technological change and security into their work, knowing that it has permeated all aspects of life, including those in indigenous communities. As Oliver noted, “SURCO is thinking about the world in terms of what it means to have a dignified life where the appropriation of technology can be the basis for building a different, more humane world.”
SURCO has been at the bleeding edge of uniting networks in the US and Mexico and around the world. As Oliver reminded me, the important thing is to resist the impulse to deprive others.
Please support SURCO’s vital mission and remember how the UVM Oaxaca Program, so firmly based in SURCO’s mission, changed your life. T here’s never been a more important time to support grassroot non-profits like SURCO where community building is the solution to overcoming rampant accumulation of wealth, division, destruction, and violence that we all now suffer.
Spread the word, and many, many thanks for your consideration,
Cynthia Belliveau & E. Claire Goodwin
