Planting Papaya
Doña Amalia and Doña Blanca plant papaya seedlings. Each woman is required to work for 4 hours a day during this week while the planting is in progress. After that,…
Month: May 2006
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Planting Pineapples
Tom and his nephew (who came down from the States to help with this project) work with several of the husbands of the women (who came to volunteer) to plant…
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Women Working Together
A young girl watches over her baby sister in the hammock while their mother works with the other women of the women’s group in the field beyond.
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A Forest Garden
Rose Lord (Global Coalition for Peace) and Juana Melendez (Women’s Group President) are in the process of planting one of the many trees that will be part of a “forest…
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Enjoying Quirigua
Enrique looks out over the courtyard of the main square of Quirigua where we were virtually serenaded by choruses of birds and insects in the trees surrounding us.
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Quirigua
I have driven by the Mayan site of Quirigua several times on journeys between Guatemala City and Peten, but the timing was never right to stop. This time, we planned…
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Gabriel
We just returned from a couple of days with Enrique’s family in Guatemala City and I had the great pleasure of meeting his youngest grandchild, Gabriel, who at 8 months…
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A Ceiba Mural for the Library
The inside of the library has been painted, and Lorena, an artistic volunteer, painted the mural of the ceiba with the glyphs dripping in oropendula nests.
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Community Library
And the view from this end shows the bathrooms and bookshelves at the far end ….
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The Library / Computer Center
The false ceiling of the library/computer center building has now been finished, and the building has been painted.