Each Fall, Weaving for Justices partners with The Maya Educational Foundation (MEF) to turn donated textiles into scholarships for Maya youth in Belize, Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala. In past years we held our fundraisers at The New Mexico State University Museum and since 2024 at First Christian Church in Las Cruces. We also send donations to MEF from sales of donated textiles at our 3rd Saturday sales at First Christian Church.
With the help of these sales, each year more and more youth in Belize, Chiapas, and Guatemala, are pursuing their dreams of an education. For information about MEF’s programs, please visit mayaedufound.org.
If you have textiles, books, or tourist items from Latin America that you’d like to donate to this project, please contact Christine Eber (ceber@nmsu.edu). Our heartfelt thanks to the over 91 individuals who have generously donated their treasures to this project since we began in 2015! For more information about the Maya Educational Foundation’s scholarship programs, please go to www.mayaedufound.org.
Donated textiles on sale at Annual Scholarship Fundraiser, 2025, First Christian Church Atrium, Las Cruces
