AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR RURAL MEXICO

From "Give Ye Them To Eat" - An Integrated Development Program serving vulnerable families in the rural sector of South Central Mexico for 34 years.

At the GYTTE program's "Tree of Life" Training Center villagers and students are offered informal training in Health, Community, Agricultural and Livestock Development as well as in Church and Faith Development. The technologies and skills they learn at the Center can be adopted and adapted to their own local needs.

The children, youth and adults served by the program staff could not participate in the training events GYTTE offers if they had to pay for these learning experiences. Those who come for training cover their transportation expenses and sacrifice paid work days to gain knowledge and new skills to improve the lives of their family, church and community. The GYTTE Program provides scholarships for marginalized people to prepare them for a more secure future.

Join us in this ministry with the rural poor of south-central Mexico.

 

“More Than A Bandage ” - Community and Family Health Scholarships: The “Give Ye Them To Eat” program (GYTTE) sponsors training courses to prepare village women as community-based, primary health providers and furnishes them with teaching materials and first-aid kits to address preventive health measures and first aid needs in their communities.

Courses and Supplies	Dollar Cost Per Course	Dollar Cost For One Share
Introductory Course: Basic Health	$350. Per Person	$25. Dollars a share
Intermediate Course: First Aid	$350. Per Person	$25. Dollars a share
Advanced Course: Health Education and Alternative Medicine	$350. Per Person	$25. Dollars a share
Blood Pressure Kit: Blood pressure cuff with a gauge, stethoscope and case	$65. Per Person	$ 5. Dollars a share
First Aid Supplies: Numerous items	$50. Per Person	$10. Dollars a share
First Aid Case: To store supplies	$5. Per Person	$ 5. Dollars a share
Reference Book: Where There Is No Doctor	$22. Per Person	$22. Dollars a share

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“Pueblo Partners” – Scholarship opportunities to train people in Agricultural, Community and Livestock Development: GYTTE sponsors three-day workshops to prepare village men, women and youth as resource persons to lead their family and neighbors through a development process that empowers people to improve life and living within their own culture, community and country. Appropriate technology is an integral part in learning what works for them in their enviroment with the resources available in their area.

Workshops and Supplies	Dollar Cost Per Workshop	Dollar Cost For One Share
1-week training event for Methodist seminary students and rural pastors	$100. Per Student	$10. Dollars a share
Agricultural Development: Multi-day	$40. Per Person	$10. Dollars a share
Community Development: Multi-day	$40. Per Person	$10. Dollars a share
Separator Toilet	$75. Per Person	$15. Dollars a share
Frame for Smokeless Cookstove	$100. Per Village	$10. Dollars a share
Hydralic Ramp Pump	$125. Per Family	$25. Dollars a share
Livestock Development - a hairsheep or a milk goat	$60. Per Family	$10. Dollars a share

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Church & Faith Development: At the "Tree of Life" Training Center the GYTTE staff hosts three-day retreats for children, youth and adults to learn about creation stewardship which is ecology from a christian perspective. Participants interact with nature and low-tech methods to learn how to live in ways that tread gently on this world we call our home.     GYTTE also offers training events and scholarships to assist in the preparation of church leaders (teachers, clergy and youth) as well as producing, compiling and distributing Christian Education materials to nurture the congregations of the Methodist Church of Mexico.

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Volunteers from the States, who have worked with the Give Ye Them To Eat program, have compiled many of the wonderful recipes that have made eating at the Tree of Life Training Center memorable. We are excited to get these recipes out to you after many years of requests.

The great authentic Mexican food eaten at the Tree of Life Training Center in Tlancualpican, Mexico, is available for you to try out at home.

The cost is $20.00 Dollars plus shipping. All proceeds will be donated to GYTTE.

To receive one for yourself or to buy MANY of them to give as gifts or to sell at your church, please send your request to the following e-mail:

gytte.cookbook@yahoo.com