Mac grad finds calling with Indigenous Mexicans
Dr. Susan Smith, former McMaster student, founded the Atzin Mexico organization, which initiates education, health, environmental (including water improvement) and income generation programs, as well as safe talking circles, for the indigenous Nahua women of Tlamacazapa in the dry, rocky mountains of Guerrero.
Susan visits her old home of Hamilton every few years to catch up with friends (many of them Atzin supporters) and to raise awareness of and funds for the organization’s work. She always comes with some of the women, this time also with Ignazio Torres Ramirez (president of the board of Atzin). He and three village women were here with Susan for two weeks; they returned Friday morning.
Read more about her in the Hamilton Spectator