HNU’s partner for the 2008 Study Trip to Oaxaca, won the Goldman Environmental Prize, the largest environmental prize in the world today! In January 2008, HNU students and faculty spent two days with the Mixtec people, helping build a greenhouse and doing land reclamation with the Center for Integral Small Farmer Development in the Mixteca (CEDICAM). Last Friday, April 11, two CEDICAM team members spent two hours with our class on Religion in Mexico, and signed copies of their book, which we read for the class.

The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize winners, with a film clip on CEDICAM founder Jesús León Santos narrated by Robert Redford, can be found at Jesús León Santos | Goldman Prize. Links to the book written by CEDICAM team members and Lay Maryknoll Missioners, Phillip Dahl-Bredine and Steven Hicken, can be found at The Other Game: Lessons on How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages, and Amazon.com.

Those interested in learning more about our host/partner in Mexico, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, with projects in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America, part of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society founded in 1911, can click on Maryknoll Lay Missioners - Phil Dahl-Bredine.

Congratulations to Jesús León Santos , to CEDICAM, and to the Mixtec people of Oaxaca , Mexico for 28 years reforesting the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca , and for modeling a sustainable future for the planet!

Bob Lassalle-Klein and Martivón Galindo

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