AMOR is a humanitarian NGO and mission working to promote and protect Mayan heritage, and achieve peace, justice and reconciliation for the indigenous Mayan women and communities of Guatemala, Belize and Southern Mexico devastated and displaced by genocide through our Sustainable Community Transformation Model, Afretlain.
AMOR is home to the non-violent movement for justice for the 22 Mayan ethnicities, for the preservation of their critically endangered knowledge, heritage, lands and lives.
Our community-led programmes, carried out in close collaboration with native Mayan community groups across rural Central America, cover the gamut from nutritional interventions to human rights training and humane education, homebuilding, support for agriculture and entrepreneurship and practical health initiatives such as smoke-free stoves. One of AMOR’s signature endeavours is the training and organising of leaders to lead the regional campaigns for reparation for the genocide against the Mayan people in Guatemala, officially denied. By building strong, committed teams, we are able to work much more efficiently and give greater value for money, providing a solid investment in peace and the future of Mayan women, children and communities.
AMOR is the dream of K'iche' Mayan Founder Arnulfo Gomez Oxlaj. The only survivor of a massacre in his village in which 115 children perished, at the age of eight Arnulfo resolved to transform that tragedy into freedom for the Mayan people, to help his people rise out of the ashes of genocide and contribute their gifts to the world.
Above all, AMOR is a dream of freedom for the great Mayan civilisation, for Guatemala, Native Peoples and the world.
AMOR is home to the non-violent movement for justice for the 22 Mayan ethnicities, for the preservation of their critically endangered knowledge, heritage, lands and lives.
Our community-led programmes, carried out in close collaboration with native Mayan community groups across rural Central America, cover the gamut from nutritional interventions to human rights training and humane education, homebuilding, support for agriculture and entrepreneurship and practical health initiatives such as smoke-free stoves. One of AMOR’s signature endeavours is the training and organising of leaders to lead the regional campaigns for reparation for the genocide against the Mayan people in Guatemala, officially denied. By building strong, committed teams, we are able to work much more efficiently and give greater value for money, providing a solid investment in peace and the future of Mayan women, children and communities.
AMOR is the dream of K'iche' Mayan Founder Arnulfo Gomez Oxlaj. The only survivor of a massacre in his village in which 115 children perished, at the age of eight Arnulfo resolved to transform that tragedy into freedom for the Mayan people, to help his people rise out of the ashes of genocide and contribute their gifts to the world.
Above all, AMOR is a dream of freedom for the great Mayan civilisation, for Guatemala, Native Peoples and the world.
Message from the Founder
My name is Arnulfo Fernando Gómez Oxlaj. I´m a native American, a Mayan whose soul cries out with those of my ancestors when every day I see children born into the world condemned to be beggars, without a space, without freedom and without hope.
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How Can I Live AMOR?
THE 116 CAMPAIGNAMOR accompanies Mayan Holocaust survivors as they seek justice, campaigns internationally, and organises communities behind a new vision of hope for Guatemala and the Mayan people.
FOOD FOR LIFEChildren can't contribute their gifts to the world on an empty stomach. AMOR's humanitarian outreach builds homes, supports maternal and child health, promotes sustainable agriculture and skills training for Mayan women.
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MAYAN SCHOOLSHelp AMOR build Mayan Schools in the form of modern-day pyramids, temples of knowledge and futuristic museums of memory which will teach children Mayan ancestral knowledge and raise up communities.
SPONSOR A MAYAN CHILDWhen you sponsor a child's education, you invest in a future in which children have the key to freedom so they can contribute their gifts to society. And when you do that, you help lift up a whole community, a nation, a world.
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HUMAN RIGHTS & LEADERSHIPFrom training Mayan leaders to whole communities, AMOR's HEAL Guatemala programme is helping build a foundation of peace and strength to raise Mayan voices and counteract the divisionism of modern apartheid.
MAYAN KNOWLEDGE PROJECTAMOR promotes Mayan philosophy, psychology, medicine, wisdom, sciences and arts worldwide, equipping people with the knowledge and confidence to fulfil their potential and transform the world around them.
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Help Mayan Voices Be Heard
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AMOR |
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(+44)(0)20.8144.4371
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Bircherley Court
Suite Seventy Hertford SG14 1RL, UK |
