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SANTA FE, N.M. Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University received a $510,363 grant that will be used to create a distance learning site in Mora, New Mexico, for the university’s students and the community.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Highlands the grant, which is a partnership with Collaborative Visions, a nonprofit in Mora. Highlands calls the grant the Education Beyond Campus project.
“This grant award provides Highlands the opportunity to take education to the people instead of solely inviting the people to come to an education at campus,” said Edward Martínez of Highlands, who is the lead researcher for the grant. “However, technology, and more specifically broadband and connectivity, poses a barrier to bringing distance learning to the rural communities and homes of northern New Mexico.
Heinrich, Luján, Leger Fernández Welcome Nearly $1 Million For Broadband And Telehealth Projects In New Mexico
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WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are welcoming announcements from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development that several projects in New Mexico will receive a combined $927,966 through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants program.
The funding is made available through the CARES Act that Senators Heinrich and Luján helped pass in 2020. Senators Heirnich and Luján and Rep. Leger Fernández will continue working to support broadband and telehealth opportunities throughout New Mexico.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The pandemic has had an immense impact on everyone.
Essential workers were weighed down by the constant stress of being out in the world exposed to COVID-19.
Parents juggled working from home while shepherding their children through virtual classrooms. Bar employees were laid off entirely some haven’t worked in the industry in a year. And many senior citizens most at risk from the virus sequestered themselves in their own homes.
It was a trying year for graduates both those who began college and those who entered the workforce for the first time and business owners who were left to make a new normal for themselves and their customers.
Mazé Morais
Maria José Morais Costa, better known as Mazé Morais is from Batalha, PI, Brazil, where she lives with her husband and son. She is a family farmer of beans, corn, manioc and small animals. She is a leader in community organizations, youth ministry, and in the Brazilian Rural Workers Union (MSTTR). In 2013 she was elected Youth Secretary of Brazil’s National Confederation of Agricultural Workers) (CONTAG), and has served as secretary of its women’s caucus since 2017. In 2019 she coordinated the March of the Daisies, a mass mobilization of rural and indigenous women to defend the forest and waters. She is also part of the board of the Confederation of Family Producers, Peasants and Indigenous Organizations of the Expanded Mercosur (COPROFAM).