Projects
- In Morelia, Chiapas, Mexico, Grassroots Projects financed and worked on two water projects. These water projects have connected two Zapatista communities with a water system.
- In El Petén, Guatemala, Grassroots Projects is financing indigenous farmers who are against Plan Puebla Panamá which is trying to open southern Mexico and Central America to foreign investment.
- They financed several organisations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that have been involved in the Oaxaca protests. The money went to Indymedia Oaxaca, CIPO and prisoner support for the demonstrators.
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