Rigoberta Menchú Tum: A Social Activist

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Mayan Quiche’ activist born in 1959 in Chimel, a small Mayan community of the highlands of Guatemala. When Rigoberta was growing up she “traveled alongside her father, Vincente Menchú, from a community to community teaching rural compassions their rights and encouraging them to organize.” In 1992 Roberta Menchú received the Novel Peace Prize for her work within the indigenous community and shortly after she opens a foundation that is called Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation (FRMT) “to support Mayan communities and survivors of the genocide as they seek justice.”
Rigoberta Menchú followed in her father's footsteps and became an active social activist I for the rights of all indigenous groups in Guatemala. This exposure to social activism, give her the strength to become an effective leader. She overcomes adversities such as the hard work she has been exposed to since the age of five, the language barrier, and she overcomes the pain of losing her family and the oppression from the Guatemalan government.
Rigoberta Menchú knew that to be able to communicate and advocate for the indigenes she knew she must learn to speak Spanish something that was hard, but her determination makes her succeed. Moreover, being able to speak Spanish allow her to tell the world what was happening in …show more content…
I think that self-confidence was a trait that she had shown since early life as activist even when she was a victim of the oppression from the government she didn’t give up and never stop fighting for the right of the indigenous. Her committed to her culture, and all the victims of genocide make her take risk, risk that could have cost her life. I think that she fit in the leadership grid of team management she motivated all the other indigenes never to give up and keep fighting for the right to be a citizen. She understands the needs of change for her community and works hard to make those