Women’s Center: Building an Outdoor Stove
While doing the clean-up on the Women’s Center land, Sylvie and Lisa found a pile of block that had been left over from the original construction, and asked the women…
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Women’s Center: Touching-up Around the Plaque
. While the women were cleaning out their bodega, they ran across the remains of the paint that was used to originally paint the Women’s Center. The area around the…
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Ix-canaan Women’s Group Makes Crepes
After two days of land cleaning, Sylvie shifted the energy completely and put together a class to teach the women how to make crepes. Crepes are a perfect type of…
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Meet Volunteers Lisa & Sylvie
Lisa and Sylvie are here for most of the month of June to volunteer with the Women’s Group and the children of the library. Their goal is to help…
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Women’s Center … Big Clean Up
The timing couldn’t have been better for Sylvie and Lisa to announce that they would help with a big clean-up of the Women’s Centre land … we had just had…
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A Chair for Eddi Felipe
Last year’s group of volunteer students from North Carolina installed a cement floor in the home of Eddi Felipe, a child with Down’s Syndrome. When they returned to North Carolina…
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Well-Baby Clinic
Mothers and babies were lined up in front of the Ix-canaan Clinic well before the 9 a.m. starting time for the Well-Baby Clinic, another of the projects of the students…
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Teaching at the N.U.F.E.D. School
The N.U.F.E.D. School is a technical institute here in the village for grades 7, 8 and 9. The purpose of the school is to bring as much education to the…
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First Day for NC State Volunteers
The first day begins with a tour of Project Ix-canaan, during which the students donate, unpack and put away their donation of medicines in the Ix-canaan pharmacy. This is a…
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North Carolina State Guatemala Global Health Leadership Team
Once again we have had the pleasure of spending a week working with a team of volunteers from North Carolina State University. By the time the week is over, the…
