http://ixcanaan.com Guardians of the Rainforest Tue, 15 May 2012 15:16:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1784 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1784#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:16:20 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1784    Saira has been one of our Scholarship Students for the last 3 years. She entered the program at the beginning of grade 7 as the young mother of 3 school aged children, and at the end of December, 2011, she proudly graduated from Junior High School. Saira had been ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1784 2 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1780 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1780#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 21:30:19 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1780 Cathy Nesbitt of Ontario, Canada (Cathy’s Crawly Composters) and Maria Rodriguez of Guatemala City (Byoearth), have been working together on a project of Vermiculture with a group of women in the Central Dump of Guatemala City. When I heard about the work they were doing, I asked them if ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1780 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1763 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1763#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:13:40 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1763 Eva Congost Vandamme, a volunteer from Spain, spent some time reading to the younger members of the Ix-canaan Reading Club. Her expressive voice captivated the attention of the kids, who have never had stories read to them before .. there have never been ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1763 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1758 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1758#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:44:25 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1758 Eva Congost Vandamme, a volunteer from Spain, arrived in time to take over teaching the yoga classes that B.J. had begun. Here she is (centre back) with the members of Brisas del Itza Women’s group. The group continued to meet on Angelica’s front ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1758 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1748 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1748#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:44:08 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1748 This is the second year for the Well-Baby Clinic run by the students of NC State. The students divided into pairs, and each pair interviewed a parent, noting historical information about the child or children. Then, each ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1748 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1726 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1726#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:57:47 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1726 Barbara Sadtler, long time yoga instructor from Chicago, has been here as a volunteer to teach yoga to the women’s groups of the village. Grupo Feminino Ix-canaan met in the galera at the top of the hill. ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1726 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1718 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1718#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:39:02 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1718 The students of the N.U.F.E.D. School spent a full morning with the students from North Carolina State University, learning about Health and First Aid, for which they received a coveted diploma. The morning began with the NCU Students on one end of the ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1718 1 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1699 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1699#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:37:01 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1699 Team 5 built a cement floor in one half of this home. Most homes consist of a completely closed room (often no windows for better security) where the family sleeps, and another open room where they cook and eat. Many of the homes are not watertight and when it ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1699 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1689 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1689#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:37:23 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1689 This is the small house in the neighbouring community of Ixlu where Team 4 built a cement floor . The team were able to cement most of the front half of the one-room house. The students work ...]]> http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1689 0 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1680 http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1680#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:38:06 +0000 ixcanaan http://ixcanaan.com/?p=1680 Team 3 built the floor for a house in the neighbouring village of Ixlu. They, too, mixed up the cement, sand, gravel and water right in the middle of the floor of the room in which they were working. http://ixcanaan.com/?feed=rss2&p=1680 0