Maya Global 2012 wants to change the status quo of the Mayan people by letting you buy their products.
500 years ago the Maya gave maize and cacao to the world. Today they are still growing and producing products like coffee, cacao, and black salt. Yet they live in dire poverty because there is no one to buy their products. The local markets are small and they have no access to the global marketplace. Maya Global 2012 will bring these products to individuals across the globe through an online marketplace and give the Maya an opportunity to retail products directly to consumers. Maya Global is dedicated to making December 22, 2012 a new dawn filled with hope rather than one more day of despair.
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PROJECTS OF PROMISE
All of these projects are ongoing and Maya Global 2012 founder Jeff Remmel has inspected their operations. Talks are underway whereby Maya Global could fund the expansion of land under cultivation and upgraded processing facilities. The latter is the key to success. You don’t want a burlap bag of green beans delivered to your door, you want a pound of hut roasted, ready to brew coffee. Likewise, the Maya want to sell $8 a pound roasted beans instead of $1.50 a pound green beans. That means the difference between subsistence living and sustainable economic progress. And it means many more jobs for Mayans.
KUCHUB’AL – Maya Nuts & Fruit
This is a cooperative made up of 16 small Maya Associations in the southwestern part of Guatemala. 70% of its members are rural women. They produce a wide range of products from vegetable and chilies to medicinal ointments and soya flour. Founded in 2005, it promotes fair trade and solidarity while … [Read More...]
SAKAPULAS – Maya Black Salt
This Sakapulas community has been extracting salt from the lands along the river in a time honored way since at least 1560. The salt is actually drawn from the earth by spreading special soil and wetting it. On productive days the salt can be baked several times until black. The black salt is … [Read More...]
SAAQ’ – Maya Red Cacao
SAAQ’ ACH’OODI NIMLA K’ALEB’AL (SANK) This project benefits 33 indigenous communities in northern Alta Veraplaz. The Sechocho community association has 115 growers of Maya Red Cacao the key ingredient in award winning gourmet chocolate. The cacao price is set at the NYSE. Most farmers receive … [Read More...]
PEASANT COMMITTEE OF THE HIGH PLAINS – Coffee
This organization of 1,200 small coffee growers represents 3 Maya Lake communities in the mountainous volcano region surrounding Lake Atitlan. Most of the growers walk over two hours carrying sacks of hand picked beans on their backs to the nearest dirt road for truck pickup. They are forced by … [Read More...]
OXWITIK CH’ORTI – New Useful Forests
OXWITIK CH’ORTI, INC. This community foundation owned company is based upon the successful New Useful Forest methods developed by founder, David Sedat, David is a renowned archeologist that led the University of Pennsylvania’s excavation of the large Maya ruins in Copan, Honduras. He and his wife … [Read More...]