YPM is committed to building real and sustainable transformations in the lives of the Mayan/Mexican people in the Zona Maya region of the Yucatan Peninsula. We believe each person deserves opportunities to develop that reflect their whole self: physical, spiritual, emotional, educational, and social. We constantly evolve and adapt to meet the needs of the community, through a series of project focus areas.
Project Focus Areas
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Education
iYPM High School
The iYPM High School offers secondary education to youth, strengthening their academic capacities, ethics, and emotional and spiritual health, so that they discover their purpose and become agents of transformation in their community. This project supports youth in vulnerable situations through high quality education and personalized attention, supplying students with the necessary tools to continue on to university studies or become a productive member of society, with leadership and a vocation for service.
iYPM University
The iYPM University offers higher and post graduate education, specifically to youth in communities with limited access, forming integral leaders with academic, ethical, and spiritual preparation. This project promotes social development and responsible leadership, forming professionals capable of occupying key roles and generating a positive impact on society.
iYPM Theological Seminary
The iYPM Theological Seminary exists to form pastors and church leaders with solid theological and ministerial preparation, capable of serving churches with a vocation of service. This project offers high quality theological formation to prepare pastors with solid Biblical principals, ministerial competencies, and vocational vision, strengthening their churches and contributing to positive transformation in their community.
Health
Water Plant
The YPM Water Plant exists to provide access to safe, purified, and accessibly priced water for families, contributing to the prevention of illnesses and to the sanitary wellbeing of the community. This project promotes public health as well as strengthens the organizational mission by generating ethical resources to be reinvested in education, social services, and community development, contributing to the financial stability of the organization.
Clinic – Future project to provide basic primary care, preventative care, and community health services.
Social Services and Community Development
Social Services
YPM Social Services respond to the basic needs of individuals, families and communities through concrete acts of service. This project contributes to the wellbeing of the communities of Leona Vicario and the surrounding areas through services such as community and residential construction, medical clinics, childcare programs, sports programs, community music classes, social supports and other educational activities.
YPM REVI – Future project for a iYPM residential life center.
Culture and Human Development
iYPM Music Studies
iYPM Music Studies offers accessible musical education to children and youth, using art as an integral development tool to strengthen discipline, creativity, emotional expression, and personal values. This project provides free and accessible musical education to strengthen artistic habits, values, discipline, and community engagement.
Sustainability
Ecotourism – Future project for resource generation with environmental responsibility.
Project Spotlight: iYPM High School and University
iYPM is an educational institution with the goal of providing high quality learning opportunities. We form excellent professionals with the knowledge, skills and values to positively transform themselves and their communities. Our vision is to be a leader in human development, through practicing the values of peace and social cohesion, enabling a modern education system at all levels and providing equal opportunities that contribute to the transformation of the self and the global community. Opened in August 2017, iYPM offers programs at both the high school and university level, with degrees in business administration, law, teaching and school administration, information systems, theology, marketing, accounting, and social work.
iYPM transforms the lives of young people and their communities. In a region with few opportunities, iYPM provides people with a quality professional education, united with a spiritual vision to serve. We grow transformed people who have the capacity to serve their families, support their communities, and live out the values of justice, truth, and love. Our former students occupy strategic roles at the municipal, local, and household level.
Built largely through the efforts of years of mission groups, the current iYPM campus is composed of the Administration Building (offices, computer lab, library, meeting room), Classroom Building 1 (a two-story building with 6 classrooms), and Classroom Building 2 (a two-story building with 8 classrooms, including a science laboratory). Future plans include a sports complex, a health center, a cafeteria and student/faculty housing.
2025 By The Numbers:
- 2025 University Enrollment: 122 students
- Total University Graduates: 143 students
- 2025 High School Enrollment: 80 students
- Total High School Graduates: 42 students
Project Spotlight: Ch’e’en Ja Safe Water Plant
Opened in February 2021, Ch’e’en Ja (well water in Maya) is a safe water plant built in partnership with Living Waters for the World (a US 501(c)(3: https://www.livingwatersfortheworld.org/). Water from the 17 meter deep well is pumped through multiple filters, chlorinated, and softened. After softening, the water is pumped through a reverse osmosis unit. Before the sanitized bottles are filled, the clean water passes through an ultraviolet light filter.
The Ch’e’en Ja plant was initially sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church from San Antonio, Texas (FPCSA) and was primarily constructed by years of mission groups, including many groups from Northminster Presbyterian Church (NPC).
The primary purpose of Ch’e’en Ja is to improve the health of Maya communities by providing clean and affordable water. Beyond its impact on health, Ch’e’en Ja is also committed to social development:
- Providing job opportunities for iYPM students.
- Offering older adults the opportunity to distribute products, allowing them to generate a dignified income – especially at a stage of life when work opportunities are often denied to them.
- Supporting entrepreneurs by supplying products as a foundation for their new businesses, helping them strengthen their income and promote local development.
Ch’e’en Ja is more than clean water: it is health, hope, and opportunity for the community.
