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OUR MISSION:
To support the educational and professional advancement of the Maya people and neighboring indigenous cultures in southern Mexico, Belize and Central America, and to sustain programs that foster study, preservation and understanding of those cultures.
DONATE BY MAIL OR PHONE:
If you prefer to donate by mail, please make check payable to Maya Educational Foundation and send to:
Maya Educational Foundation
P.O. Box 1483
Wellfleet, MA 02667, USA
Or call us at:
Tel. (508) 349-1330
MEF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are U.S. tax-deductible.
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Shelton Davis Scholarship Fund
MEF is honored to announce an additional program for 2011 in Todos Santos that will keep alive the memory of a committed activist anthropologist and indigenous rights advocate who made this world a better place.
 Shelton H. Davis, Sandy to his friends, passed away on May 27, 2010. Sandy did his first fieldwork in Santa Eulalia, a Maya community in the Cuchumatán highlands, and went on to spend his life working for the rights of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. He founded the Anthropology Resource Center and pressed for the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon. He taught at Harvard, from which he received his PhD and later at Georgetown University. He worked at the World Bank from 1987 to 2004, advocating always for minority rights in language, territory, and culture, and for the right of indigenous people to speak for themselves in national and international arenas.
Sandy was a long-time supporter of the Maya Educational Foundation and its work. His family asked that donations be made in his memory to further our work. In consultation with his wife Mary Gubbins and his son and daughter, the Maya Educational Foundation Board established the Shelton H. Davis Memorial Fund and has outlined a program in his honor. Since we already have a well-established program in Todos Santos, in the region where Sandy did his original fieldwork, we are making a commitment to take on five new students in their third year of elementary school, and follow them as far as their desire for learning will take them. They will be designated as Shelton Davis scholars and will come under the supervision of our very able partner in Todos Santos, Felipa Jiménez. |
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Donations
You can make a donation in the following ways, indicating that your contribution is in honor of Shelton Davis:
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By check. Please, make check payable to: Maya Educational Foundation
and mail it to:
Maya Educational Foundation
P.O. Box 1483
Wellfleet, MA 02667
USA
By credit card. Please, call us at (508) 349-1330 or fill out and mail this form.
On-line by credit card through Network for Good. Please, click the button below
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Thank you for your support.
Maya Educational Foundation
is a 501(c)(3) public charity.
All donations are tax-deductible in the United States
to the full extent of the law.
EIN 03-0335159.
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