CESIK Info and Call for Volunteers / Información y convocatoria para voluntarios (inglés)
The Kgoyom Center for Indigenous Higher Studies (“CESIK” in Spanish), is an alternative community high school that focuses on the empowerment of the indigenous Totonaca (tutunakú) and Nahua (náhuatl-speaking) people of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, a pocket of central Mexico defined by its rich cultural traditions and ecological diversity as well as its history of economic and political marginalization.
Founded in 1994 by the Independent Totonaca Organization (OIT) in Huehuetla, Puebla, CESIK provides a community-based education that reinforces indigenous knowledge and practices alongside essential elements of the state curriculum. The effort to provide a locally designed, critically aware and culturally relevant education responds to the organization’s historic struggle for justice and self-determination rooted in a unique ethnic and cultural identity, in resistance to legacies of discrimination and exploitation, prevailing national politics of cultural assimilation, and pressures of urban migration which are rapidly disintegrating Mexico’s indigenous communities.
The project is organized by members of the local community in collaboration with volunteers from different regions of Mexico and/or abroad, with guidance from the OIT and other regional organizations. It is sustained through community-based funding and in large part by the efforts of our team of volunteer teachers, for which we are currently recruiting.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS 2019-2020 bilingual flyer English/Spanish
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