The Institute for the Development of the Mixteca, AC (IDM) as part of the Foundation Ayu, AC, is a civil non-governmental, non-religious, non political and non-profit, founded in 1998 whose mission is to promote and address the comprehensive and sustainable development of the population whose conditions are poverty and marginalization. Hence, through our four strategic programs and actions, our actions are focused primarily on expelling a region of labor, such as the Mixteca region, which includes the states of Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero, also other regions as zones of influence, including Central Valley, Costa e Istmo in Oaxaca state.

To date, we have over 20 thousand members, especially women's involvement with the Organization of Rural Women Producers in the Mixteca ITA-YEE, AC ", which brings together more than 13 thousand women, are also included other sectors of the population such as youth, children and the elderly very poor living in extreme poverty and marginalization.

Institutional Profile

MISSION

promote and address the comprehensive and sustainable development of the population, concentrating its activities in regions where conditions are poverty and exclusion.

VISION

The I.D.M. is the body help in the realization of the target population.

OBJECTIVE

Ensure that programs and activities of the IDM positive impact on living standards and social welfare beneficiaries and their families, making their roots in their communities.

PHILOSOPHY

combat what seems impossible is poverty, showing that through unity of peoples and of the mobilization effort will allow the development of communities.

SECURITIES

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Commitment - Confidence
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Loyalty - Honesty
- Disclaimer
- Participation
- Respect
- Equity
- Justice

FOUNDER

Heladio Ramírez López

Ayu Foundation Institute for Development of the Mixteca AC Foundation and The Great Forgotten A.C.

Born in the village of Santa Maria Ayu, Huajuapan of the municipality of Leon, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. He graduated in law. He was president of the Youth Association of the Southeast of Mexico, Founder and Chairman of the Forum for Youth, National Association of free discussion.

He has held various positions in the public sector: a federal deputy, senator of the Republic, where he served as Chairman of the Committees on Migrant Workers and Indigenous Affairs, the Committee on Food, the Secretary of the Commission Agriculture and Rural Development, and member of the Committees on Indian Affairs Migration Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources, Social Development, Agrarian Reform and Foreign. He was Governor of the state of Oaxaca, is currently President of the National Peasant Confederation and President of the Continental Conference of Rural Producers, involving organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean.

REASONS

FOUNDATION AYU: towards a different future

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"Politics, like any human activity, only with the work dignifies lasting benefit of the people. That is why I have lived with such intensity Mexican passion for social justice, equity, democracy and nationalism to be essence of the political agenda. And in doing so, he fought tirelessly for the noble and just cause of the poorest Mexicans, from the positions and with the weapons that came into my hands all my son's ability to Mixtec people.

The results of that struggle are many, but modest in relation to the magnitude of the problems. Not because these gains have been small or intrascendentales but because they do not correspond to the large demand for change of our complex reality. Neither the high level of our aspirations. This applies to the cause of the Mixteca, the sweet girl of my great motherland. A CUSA that applies equally to the fate of the Mixtec people of Mexico and the building just as the country that most of the Mexican dream.

In this new millennium, the world is experiencing a rapid process of transformation that is shaking the conscience of mankind. However, in the region where the small town where I was born, Santa Maria Ayu seems that nothing has happened, that time is stopped. There are the everyday lives of pressure, the accumulated history of suffering in people burdened by poverty and marginalization.

Since my first political campaign in more intimate and extensive contact with the reality of these poor communities, and after talking and listening with attention and respect to thousands of farmers, asked me with sincere concern the best way to transform this social drama and find an appropriate solution to the problem size.

I've tried since then to understand the processes and trends that characterize life in the region, seeking to explain the causes of poverty and marginalization, and see clearly the responses capable of eradicating them.

That led me to acting, not alone, but in solidarity and to mobilize everyone, especially those who suffer more intensely the grievances of a humiliating situation of inequality that has structural causes, and therefore can only be changed with the effort of all. "

Heladio Ramírez López

LINES OF ACTION

1. Organization of the Rural Society
2. Education and Training
3. Productive Projects Economic
4. Technical
5. Culture and Recreation
6. Managing and obtaining support

STRATEGIC PROGRAM

Productive Development Program

- Consolidation and creation of new productive projects
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Training - Technical Assistance
- Studies, and project profiles
- Coordination with other activities

Social Development Program

- Housing and water
- Exchange of experiences and cultural production
- Culture
- Health
- Recreation
- Publications of the IDM and regional reports

Promotion Program savings and community funding andalusia

- Savings
- Wallpapers

Program Development and Consolidation of Social Organization

- Consolidation of existing social organizations
- Consolidation of new partnership arrangements
- Formation of Compadre

Legend of flechador del sol

In the Mixtec nation, there is the legend of a hero called Tzauindanda Mixtec (also known as Yacoñooy or Mixtecatl), who showed that the strength of will and love for their homeland made it possible that it could wage battle more difficult and thereby defeat the enemy stronger than anyone could have. This hero is better known as "THE Flechador of the Sun," and legend says that:

were two giant trees that existed at the bottom of a mysterious cave on land Apoala, who came to love so much that intertwined their branches and roots joined in this great love, was the first man and the first woman Mixtecos. Over time, those people had children and you children's children founded the town of Achiutla, birthplace Tzauindanda. The population grew so Achiutla that no longer fit, then leave Tzauindanda decided to conquer the land that his people needed to settle, so he took his bow and arrows and left one morning, ready to dispute anyone.

For days, did not rest a moment until he reached a vast and uninhabited extension not found anything where that hinder their passage, just shining like the sun shining lord and master of those lands, lands that greed Tzauindanda for him by fresh and beautiful.

Tzauindanda won the hearing, there was a cloud that takes away the sun, after a while thirsty and tired, feeling the sun's rays as knives, arrows and stuck in every part of your skin discovered . Then I understood: The Sun is the lord of those lands! Therefore raised his bow and arrows launched against many of the sun.

At last the evening he saw that the sun had weakened, injured and not its rays with the same force and the sky was a slight red tint. Gradually the sun began to fall and the sky became more and more red, until finally fell behind the mountains, the sky was stained with the blood of the sun, indicating where he had fallen, defeated the mighty Lord! Tzauindanda, rioja had defeated!, hence our slogan says: "The Impossible is Possible."

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Source: IDM Institute for the Development of the Mixteca AC

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