About Fabiola

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Location: Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Damaris Fabiola Quijivix Monzón is a leader of the Maya K’iche’ people, an Indigenous group from Guatemala, born in the Valle de Palajunoj, Quetzaltenango. She is a graduate of Social Work and a passionate advocate for her community and its forests.

For Fabiola, the land is a space where she shares her struggles and strengths, protecting her community while building stories alongside family — blending joyful moments with difficult experiences that are healed collectively. Her land is rich with wildlife and plants, offering peace, harmony and inspiration.

“My land would say that I am a determined woman who works to protect it, and in return, my land gives me its fruits and natural beauty.” Fabiola Quijivix

For her, climate justice goes beyond environmental or economic policies. It is about listening to the needs of communities, protecting the land, promoting sustainable actions, and safeguarding the common good.

Fabiola’s project

In the Palajunoj Valley and Chicúa communities, traditional farming and ancestral knowledge, especially about medicinal plants, are disappearing due to climate change, fast food culture, and growing dependence on pharmaceuticals.

Sustainable Agrolife focuses on restoring this knowledge through community and school gardens that grow medicinal plants, vegetables and fruit trees. Women leaders from local households take a central role in planning, managing and caring for the gardens. As caretakers, knowledge keepers and organisers, their involvement ensures a gender-sensitive approach to food sovereignty, environmental care and community health.

Through workshops and hands-on gardening, women exchange knowledge across generations, strengthen their leadership, and promote the healing and nutritional benefits of native plants. This work supports better family nutrition, self-care and sustainable livelihoods.

More than just gardens — these spaces foster community resilience, cultural continuity and climate adaptation. The project will directly benefit over 140 people, mainly women and their families, and reach many more through community activities. By centering women’s voices and ancestral knowledge, this initiative builds a future rooted in Indigenous traditions, gender justice and climate leadership.

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