Grupo Cajolá opened their Jaxnaq’tzb’il Xnaq’tzb’il Kynab’il Qchman (Wisdom of our Elders Preschool) in 2012 to provide a preschool learning experience to children while their mothers worked. The members of Grupo Cajolá in Cajolá wanted the preschool to be based on their Maya Mam language, culture, and spirituality. After considering several approaches to preschool education including Montessori and Waldorf. Grupo Cajolá selected Reggio Emilia, an Italian-rooted educational p

As part of its efforts to fund raise for the Cajolá community and at the same time strengthen its network in the U.S., Grupo Cajolá in North America organized a screening of Borderland: The Line Within (2024), the most recent documentary of award-winning filmmaker Pamela Yates. Borderland focuses in part on a Guatemalan activist trying to make it to the U.S. Having directed When the Mountains Tremble in 1983, and Granito in 2011, Yates is not new to Guatemala. When the Mou