Entrepreneur spotlight: Juana’s garlic harvest

Payton Haynes learned about En Vía in La Betulia, the B&B where he was staying in Oaxaca - and where he also met entrepreneur Juana Gutiérrez. Juana is a long-standing member of En Vía - indeed, it was she that started everything off for En Vía in her hometown of San Sebastian Abasolo as her…

Beyond the home: women’s role in the community cargos of Teotitlán

Looking after the church, running the Cultural Center, dancing the famous Danza de la Pluma - what do they have in common? They are all cargos - roles carried out without pay, which form a fundamental part of the system of self-government of many of the indigenous communities in Oaxaca known as usos y costumbres.…

Project Tours as an Act of Social Justice

In the times of Covid everything is different, but in usual times, February is been a peak month for En Vía project tours: a chance for a group of people to really get their hands dirty working on projects with some of the women in our program. Here volunteer tour guide Sarah Baker looks back…

Longest volunteer standing

One of the wonderful things about En Vía is that it isn't only the entrepreneurs who benefit. Over the years we have had many hundred volunteers. Some come for a few special months and then move on. But we're lucky enough that many others stay. For years! Susan Bean Aycock has been with En Vía…

“Do you have one in blue?” En Vía’s ‘English for your business’ program

by Sylvia Hines, Communications Intern "Do you have one in blue?" "Can I wash this?" Not easy questions to answer if you speak fluent Zapotec and Spanish but not much English. Many of our entrepreneurs find that their clients - who arrive from all over the world - have little Spanish and really want all…