Jan Raymond
Dr. Bob’s travelling companion, Jan Raymond, has been an active supporter of Project Ix-canaan for a few years now. As an educator, Jan has been instrumental in gathering together and…
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Delivery of Medicines
Dr. Bob, the Calgary coordinator of Friends of Ix-canaan, arrived the first of April to bring down much needed medicines to the clinic. It is wonderful to once again have…
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Bathrooms for the NUFED School
Last week we began the construction project at the NUFED School. The project in its entirety will be quite a bit more extensive, but we are beginning with the student…
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Gardening Again
Our new volunteer, Allison Hayes, has been having a wonderful time helping the women to get their square foot gardens back up and running. Aleta Leigh, who has been working…
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Volunteer Teacher at the NUFED School
Aleta Leigh, our first Alaskan volunteer, (shown here with some of her students), has been working as an Ix-canaan volunteer for over a month now teaching English at the NUFED…
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A Fourth Student
Delmi Estair Sinto is the most recent addition to our scholarship program. Delmi is 15 years old, and, like many girls from poor families, was forced to leave school 3…
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Scholarship Students
Elsa (top) and Aracely have returned to school as “adult students” with a scholarship from Project Ix-canaan. These two young ladies were forced to leave school when they finished grade…
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Entertainment in the New Mall
Who needs the fair when one has a new escalator to ride for free?? Few residents of Peten have ever seen an escalator in motion and when the new mall…
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The Sun Oven
Dana Machovec visited El Remate for 10 days and while here, was able to demonstrate the use of this Sun Oven that she then donated to Project Ix-canaan to use…