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Impact Stories, Monoticias

Weaving Stories With A Scent Of Coffee And Mountainsweaving Stories With A Scent Of Coffee And Mountains

November 24, 2022

Marieli, a woman who through her sensitivity, charisma, commitment, effort and leadership, has been a key element in the evolution of her business and in the development of her local community. She is the one who opens an interesting opportunity for...

Impact Stories, Local Hands Network

Doña Rosbi, Guardian Of Organic Cacao In The Lacandon Jungle

November 8, 2022

When time began, there was the garden of life. There, the gods lived in courts of exuberant abundance. Each god had his kingdom and man lived in harmony among the gods until he was expelled. So it was that...

Impact Stories, Monoticias, Local Hands Network

Challenges and Lessons Learned in Nature Tourism Businesses

October 5, 2022

On September 27th of this year, World Tourism Day was celebrated by the Local Hands Network with the purpose of raising awareness and sharing experiences from the communities who are part of this initiative created by the organization...

Monoticias, Our Processes

National Call for the Strengthening of Sustainable Tourism and Market Ready Businesses

September 27, 2022

Are you looking to enhance the capabilities of your tourism venture, connect with new markets, and impact the community? This call is for you! Through this training experience, we seek to activate favorable conditions for the responsible reactivation of tourism and...

Local Hands Network

Beyond the Magic of Sierra Gorda

September 23, 2022

We travel like a seed in the wind to that other place, regenerated and surprising. As we walk, we get to know and from La Mano del Mono, we value those processes that share a common purpose and that seek to preserve life. ....

Monoticias

La Mano del Mono, Winner of 2022 ATWS Fellowship in Switzerland

September 5, 2022

Today we celebrate being one of the three recipients of the ATWS grant to be held for the first time in Lugano, Switzerland. Undoubtedly a step that recognizes the efforts in innovation to conserve natural environments through...

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Local Hands Network

Productive Elements and their Relation to Sustainable Tourism

August 31, 2022

On August 25, the second meeting of the Local Hands Network was held. A significant space that deepened on the Productive Elements and their Relationship with Sustainable Tourism, achieving to understand that any activity that is developed on the local...

Local Hands Network

Nature, its Relationship to Tourism and Destination Life

August 2, 2022

On July 27, 2022, we opened the Manos Locales Network, an initiative of the La Mano del Mono organization, which carries out a transformative social process in favor of leaving positive impacts and sustainable development in the local communities....

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Impact Stories

Tere in Lechuguillas

November 9, 2021

Michoacán: much more than the monarch butterfly. Tere in Lechuguillas The state of Michoacán, famous for hosting the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Biosphere Reserve, currently a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2008, and famous throughout...

Impact Stories

Biocultural Encounter: Yecan Yecan.

September 29, 2021

From the first time I was told about the #mujereslocalescambiosglobales campaign, I fell in love with the project. I followed with great curiosity each of the stories that La Mano del Mono was presenting, admiring what Doña Chenta, Dulce and Sofia...

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