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What is Enkidu?

Enkidu is a non-profit organization based in Mexico City dedicated to the task of Opening Eyes through information, debate and dialogue. We are building bridges and breaking silences all over the Spanish speaking world and increasingly beyond through our online publication Enkidu Magazine – www.enkidumagazine.com - and our academic and cultural diffusion activities.

What do we do?

Enkidu provides a complete news service in Spanish on the internet with daily updated coverage of a wide variety of themes from a global perspective; human rights, civil rights, history, international politics, health, religion and society to mention a few. Our magazine is read by more than 35.000 individuals every month and we have registered readers in more than 40 countries. Approximately 1/3 of our readers are located in Mexico. Enkidu Magazine entertains and enlightens our readers but we never loose sight of the bigger issue: We try to make the world a tiny bit better by sharing knowledge and making objective, academic and serious information accessible to all. We let our readers all over the world feel “el poder de saber”, the power of knowing. 

Academic Activism: The Power of Knowing

Enkidu is entirely produced by a small team of dedicated contributors and volunteers sharing a vision, an ambition, and the idea that high quality knowledge and information should be available and accessible to all, regardless of geography and socio-cultural conditions. Enkidu is more than anything academic activism. An important element in our work is to make information, research and knowledge available to the general public in Latin America, which is not published by mainstream media nor made accessible in Spanish. Activists, scientists and organisations in Latin America often lack the capacity to access information in English and Enkidu contributes through its efforts to make international research available and accessible to a Spanish speaking audience. The backbone of our activities is our academic conference projects. Our conferences bring together scientists, activists, artists and other highly interesting individuals from all over the world to debate, dialogue and lively intellectual exchange.

Through our bilingual conferences, treating a wide variety of topics, we promote and stimulate academic exchange between researchers, activists, government agencies and organisations from all over the world. After the success of our first conference, Enkidu has decided that every December, we will organise a conference with the title “Aids in Culture”. Last year, this conference was organised in Mexico City. In 2005, the conference will be held in Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

In 2004, AIDS in Culture I had 52 participants representing a wide range of academic disciplines as well as artists, activists and other highly interesting individuals who shared their research, their art, their visions and their ideas with each other in a stimulating multilingual academic environment with plenary meetings and round table discussions. 14 different universities from Latin America, North America, Europe and Africa were represented as well as two government agencies and 5 NGO’s. We expect 75 participants at AIDS in Culture II and a similar number of participants for Competing Diversities.

How will we use your donation?

Your donations will this year in particular contribute to the implementation of Enkidu Magazine’s conference AIDS and CULTURE II in Puerto Vallarta in December 2005, as well as our conference "Competing Diversities" to be held in Mexico City in June 2005 addressing the issue of traditional sexualities in encounter with modern Western sexual identity constructions. 

Our academic conferences bring together scientists, activists, artists and other highly interesting individuals from all over the world to debate, dialogue and lively intellectual  exchange. By giving a donation to Enkidu, you will contribute to enable participants, in particular from the third world, without funds but with an important message to the world to attend our conferences and academic exchange programs and let their voices be heard. 

Another project our team is planning, which also depends on YOUR donation for its implementation, is the development of Aids information in Nahuatl and later other Latin American  indigenous languages in cooperation with internationally acknowledged scientists as well as indigenous educators and activists in Europe and Latin America.

It is our goal to have a new complete information package in a different indigenous language ready for publication every year. A donation to Enkidu will secure that this important work, which has been sadly neglected by the authorities in most Latin American countries. will continue. Linguistic and cultural background should not be a barrier to participate in the "power of knowing" and be part of the global diversity.  

We rely 100% on voluntary donations from our individual readers, organizations, and enterprises that allow us to continue our academic activism. If you feel that our efforts are worthwhile and that our voice should continue to be heard, inform and educate people globally, please consider making a donation. Being a non profit initiative based in a third world country, we are always in need of support -moral and financial- from people like you, from around the world. We accept contributions of any size, in any currency.

Upcoming Conferences:
Mexico City 1 -  5 June 2005	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 10 - 13 December 2005

There are four ways in which you can support Enkidu:

1. Online Donations

Donate an amount of any size, in any currency online with a credit or debit card via PayPal [more information here]. All transactions via PayPal are secure and completely traceable from you to Enkidu. PayPal is essentially an online bank that allows its users to easily transfer money among each other. The PayPal site will guide you through all the steps you need to take to open an account and send money.

2. Cheques and Bank Transfers

Donate by post with a cheque or transfer money into our bank account. Send us an e-mail for more details. Our postal address can be found here

3. Donate Gifts

Enkidu and our sister organizations in Mexico, Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Canada can always use gifts of office equipment (photocopiers, computer equipment, fax machines, etc.) and office supplies like paper, postage stamps, and envelopes. If you are interested in donating items of this kind to support our work, please send us an e-mail for more information. 

4. Participate!

Volunteer at our academic events, our outreach activities and our cultural and social activities for the global diversity around the world. Each event offers various options for volunteers who would like to invest some of their valuable time and energy into our eye-opening activities. Please send us an e-mail for further information.

Contributions to Enkidu will be used both to support the resources and infrastructure necessary to provide and maintain this free source of news and information on the Internet, and to cover our daily expenses in connection with the production of the magazine, our academic programs, our outreach activities, cultural initiatives and to develop new writing talent.      

Información en español: Diversidades en Competencia: Sexualidades Tradicionales y las  Construcciones Modernas de Identidad Sexual de Occidente,

Sede: Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, 

Ciudad de México, Junio 1° – 5 de 2005