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MADRE�s Direct Relief Efforts

MADRE purchased 25 water treatment units for families in Barcenas, a make-shift neighborhood of Guatemala City, where hundreds of women who work in local sweatshops live;

MADRE delivered a shipment of operating room supplies to hospitals in Cuba;

MADRE sent support to one of our Guatemalan sister organizations for members of their weaving cooperative to be trained in more intricate designs and learn traditional patterns as part of their efforts to preserve Mayan culture;

MADRE sent support to the Rigoberta Menchu Organization to develop a security system for their Guatemala City office. In April, Guillermo Ovalle, a staff member of the organization, was killed outside of their office. His murder, which MADRE publicly condemned, is part of a growing pattern of killings of human rights workers in Guatemala.