Become a part of our movement
Tell the World…join us as a ‘Founding Member’ by adding your name to the Maya Global ‘Tree of Life’ on our website and like us on Facebook. Better yet, join us as one of twelve travelers on December 13-22, on a Once-In-A-Millennium trip to the Maya world. You will learn first-hand about the Maya Global 2012 agri-business projects and meet with Maya leaders and elders while traveling the ancient Maya trails in Honduras and Guatemala. You will spend the last four days exploring Copan Ruinas, Honduras – ‘the Paris of the ancient Maya civilization’. You will celebrate the ‘dawning of a new era’ on December 21, with renowned Maya Luminaries, to observe a cosmic alignment of our solar system with the plane of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, representing the end of a 25,920 year cycle that is based on the Precession of the Equinoxes.
Maya Ch’orti “Nuevo Dia” organization and the ‘New Useful Forest’
5,140 Years of Mayan Culture
OXWITIK CH’ORTI – New Useful Forest was identified five years ago as our first project, and has more than ten years in development and research. It’s Founders’, David and Julia Sedat, have revitalized ravaged hillsides by planting useful trees (such as the fruit bearing Noni tree) whose roots hold the soil and retain water from running off. The enriched soil can then be used to grow a wide variety of other trees and crops. It has been shown that even the worse degraded hillsides of Western Honduras and elsewhere in the region can be rescued from slash and burn and soil degradation, and transformed into useful and productive agro-forestry lands. Today, there are over 80 species of plants and trees being grown and being used to perfect recipes for hot sauces, flavored drinks, infused teas, health products, and much more.
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Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments
The New Useful Forest (NUF) is achievable, sustainable, and will eliminate poverty because it incorporates intrinsically “Mayan” cultural strategies of land use and subsistence. The acceptance of the NUF ideals by the Maya Chorti “New Day” movement indicates that new ideas and plant species are accepted if they are presented in a culturally coherent fashion. The NUF is suited for the steepest and least desirable land for maize farming. It does not seek to displace the spiritually entrenched maize cultivation, but rather enhance its multiple-use by making the land more fertile and productive for subsistence and cash crops. This is where so many “outside” projects have failed—they do not take into consideration the “soul” of the Maya people.
