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   Help support the Midwives Association of the
   Mam area of Guatemala:
      >Home  >Issue 26 Main  >Mam Midwives

  The Act of Opening
Yourself Up
So That Another Being Can
Pass Down the Channel
And Out of You
Takes a Woman All the Way
Down
To the Very Deep of Living.

Judy Grahn

The batik and quote form a poster developed by the International Mayan League/USA.  Full size reprints are available for $20 and support the Midwives Association of the Mam area in Guatemala, which is helping indigenous families build a center for training community midwives, for family birth education and for special care needs for the community.

To purchase this batik, please send checks to International Mayan League/USA, ACAM Project, 11 Cider Mill Road, Weston, VT 05161

 
   Click batik for larger image

   Batik by Jane Pincus (1986)

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