The Corner Project of Malinalco is a community organization devoted to the educational and economic development of this beautiful, historically Aztec municipality of the State of Mexico, located near the religious pilgrimage site of Chalma, high in the mountains southwest of Mexico City.

Faced with a globalizing economy that makes it increasingly difficult for Malinalco’s families to support themselves by means of the subsistence agriculture that has been the area's economic mainstay for generations, driving an increasing number of young people to migrate to the U.S. in search of ways to earn a living, Corner Project programs have grown to incorporate a focus on the special needs of migrants’ families experiencing the crises and extended separations imposed by a violent, rigid border.

Programs for migrants’ families and children include special summer programs, counseling and access to internet telephones to help families survive crises and help children stay in school while coping with parents’ extended absence.

Our income-generating programs apply the new communications technologies, fair trade marketing methods and the design of new products using traditional motifs and materials in collaboration with Malinalco’s master artisans to develop domestic and export markets so that Malinalco’s artisans can earn a decent wage while training new generations in their finely-executed crafts, creating local jobs and helping to preserve Malinalco’s cultural treasures.