Heritage Education Network Belize is pleased to introduce two new interview and op-ed series and invite you to participate! If you are committed to sustainable tourism and safeguarding heritage, we would love to highlight your perspective by featuring you in an interview or op-ed.
Read MoreOn a sunny morning, Heritage Education Network Belize, in collaboration with World Monuments Fund (WMF), and the support of the Institute of Archaeology, NICH, hosted the "Lamanai Watch Day" at Lamanai Archaeological Reserve.
Read MoreTune in to 3 days of kolcha at the KULCHA Symposium! Check out our program and save the dates so you don’t miss anything!
Read MoreThe HENB team was well-represented at the 2022 Belize Archaeology Symposium (BAS).
Read MoreJoin Heritage Education Network Belize and the Europa Nostra #Women4Heritage Network for an international and intergenerational dialogue with women in the Cultural Heritage field on Monday 23 May from 10:00-11:00 (CST, Belize) / 18:00 - 19:00 (CEST, Brussels). Taking place in the frame of the European Year of Youth 2022, the event is aimed at students and young professionals to discuss education and career opportunities and challenges for the future of women in Cultural Heritage.
Read MoreThank you to the Saint John's College High School History Club for inviting HENB and our Director, April Martinez, to talk about all things KULCHA in honour of Women’s Month in 2022!
Read MoreHENB co-director, Rebecca Friedel Juan, will be presenting at the 2021 Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropology and Conservation conference on October 26, 2021. She will join a panel of scholars and experts for a roundtable entitled "Changes in Access to the Environment and Maya Identity: Collaborative Approaches to Conserving Cultural Landscapes on the Belize/Guatemala border".
Read More"When Social Media meets Art and Culture" will be a presentation based on the U Chan Muul Yaax K'aax Maya Museum from the genesis to its developing stages, reaching out to the youth and elders. It will focus on how social media meets art and culture can transmit inspiration, hope, oral tradition and become a role model.
Read MoreSince prehispanic times, Belize's many rivers have been traffic arteries that structure the territory. Through the use of traditional indigenous boats, rivers connect coastal sites to those inland. I would like to introduce you to these two means of transport, emblematic of river navigation, the dory and the pitpan.
Read MoreFirst, I would like to talk about the birth of the Maya Writing Club and my personal journey in reaching an understanding of how this ancient Maya writing system works. As a Club we set several goals every year with the prime objective of going out to educate and share what we have learnt.
Read MoreMy study argues that an exploration of Indigenous mathematics, ways of knowing, doing, and being through culture-based practices of Maya Elders, can enact and create a more enlivening and empowering mathematics curriculum. I use the term weaving as a metaphor to conceptualize mathematics as a fabric of interlaced concepts.
Read MoreThis piece will seek to discuss how the adaptation of the Cohune Industry in Belize is a positive step towards sustainability and conservation.
Read MoreHumans face a series of challenges tied to anthropogenic climate change ranging from rising temperature, rising sea levels, drought, flooding, loss of soil, increased impact and degradation of cultivated lands, food insecurity, increasing rural to urban migration, with rural and urban unemployment. The challenges and their solutions for much of Belize are overlapping. Increasing rural employment, repairing degraded land, increasing soil fertility, creating models of land use that replicate ecosystem functions of primary habitat, namely soil and soil moisture retention, creation of habitat and carbon drawdown, is possible through education and outreach.
Read MoreThe Crocodile Research Coalition is a nonprofit organization; our mission is to promote conservation of crocodiles and their habitats throughout Central America through community involvement, research, and education. Education is key to opening many doors and as an NGO that conserves these species in fishing communities specially, we connect with the people through outreach, culture, eco-clubs, and a lot of community involvement.
Read MoreThe Locally Project, is a community-funded project in collaboration between artists, small businesses, local and international stakeholders on a joint mission to safeguard Belize’s culture.
Read MoreBuilding on the much-discussed impact of animation to influence ideologies, attitudes and behaviors globally, we sought to utilize a locally popular folklore story to deliver messages in support of conservation and sustainable development. After a successful debut short film including winning the Belize International Film Festival and screening at two others, the team is now working on a seven-episode series with seed funding from Netflix/Ambulante.
Read MoreCommunication is the means of sharing information and spreading knowledge. Photography is the means of communicating with people visually. People understand messages differently from each other. A good image on the other hand will always portray the same message to everyone.
Read MoreI will present a brief description of our Organization GAMAE International Inc. and speak a little about what we are about and our mission, vision and goals. I will also speak a bit about the GAMAE Projects we are doing at this time.
Read MoreTo’one Masehualoon NGO is a cultural preservational group in northern Belize which grew out of the idea that the people of Belize who are of Yucatec Maya decent are slowly losing their self of identity and that the demise of a vibrant culture filled with ancestral splendor and knowledge is slowly reaching extinction. The purpose of the group is to restore and preserve the pride of being of Yucatec Maya ancestry. This is accomplished by preserving all areas of the culture such as language, spirituality, attire, cuisine, folklore, and dance and by also being engaged in community outreach.
Read MoreIn an effort to provoke discussions on Maya identity, in 2018 a group of young cultural activists revived San Antonio Day to highlight the Yucatec Maya traditions of the village. The reloaded version of San Antonio Day, Another Beautiful Day in San Antonio, encompasses a trifocal approach that incorporates sports, culture, and environmental awareness.
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