Maya Global 2012’s #1 goal in 2012 is all about on-line traffic
…to get as many people as possible to visit www.mayaglobal2012.com, and to join the ‘Maya Global Tree of Life’ as a founding member. If we cannot do this…we will fail!
We, you and I, all of us, every family member, and friends must do something to bring hope to the Maya after so many years of despair. We can help them help themselves. Join our efforts. Visit our Get Involved page. ‘Like’ our Facebook page. Help us help them. Together we can accomplish something very meaningful. Let us not focus on December 21, 2012. Let us instead look to December 22. 2012. That is the dawn that counts! Maya Global wants to help create a dawn that is filled with optimism for the Maya. You too, can be part of that story.
If you really want something special this holiday season, don’t forget to check out our Maya Global 2012 Trip — December 13-22, 2012.
Help us create a bright new future
Let’s Share The Real Maya Secret
Let’s get everyone we know, everyone they know, all socially conscious people of all demographic groups to join the Maya ‘Tree of Life’ as a founding member laying the foundation for Maya Global 2012. In the spirit of Rigoberta Menchu, Maya woman from Guatemala and 1992 winner of Nobel Peace Prize, “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”
to invite your friends and family on Facebook to join the Maya Global Tree of Life
Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments
Conditions are very poor in the Mayan region. Honduras is the third poorest country in Latin America. The number of rural Honduran households living below the poverty line is estimated at 74.6%, of which 60.9% live on less than one dollar per day with massive unemployment over 30%. In rural areas, people complete only 3.5 years of school. The percentage of malnutrition among these children is 42.7. In the Mayan region chronic malnutrition can reach 88%. In Guatemala almost 57% of the people are poor and 21% live in extreme poverty. 49.3% of children under 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition. This is the third highest rate in the world. Malnutrition is more prevalent among the indigenous population with rates as high as 69.5%.
Honduras and Guatemala suffer from the most severe socioeconomic and environmental ills today, with a large percentage of their rainforest and temperate forests being wiped out due to slash and burn subsistence. Professor Daniel Farber of Northeastern states, “In 1960, wood lands blanketed nearly 60% of Central America. Today less than one-third of the original forests remain standing; the rest have vanished”. In particular, the tropical and mountain forests of Central America continue to be destroyed at a frightening speed. Between 1961 and 1991 over half of the forests in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador were cut down — a rate of deforestation that applies to Central America as a whole. At this pace, within decades, the world will be left with little more than a few parks and reserves as vestiges of the great ecosystems of Central America.
