Hamaca

April 20th 2013
A little after 3pm on the Wednesday before Easter.... This was the scene. As I write this I'm swaying from side to side in the hamaca down next to the kitchen. Don Ricardo the Canadian is digging something in the garden, Sister Paulita has just walked past on her way to the shops and Virginia the cook has just finished knocking mangoes from the tree. Before to long you wo ... read more

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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more

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The Adventures of Little and Large

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We are Douglas and Rhona and this is our blog from Central and South America. We're spending three months volunteering for a charity in Jocotan, Guatemala, the centre of a hilly area with a large indigenous Mayan population and a lot of inequality and child malnutrition. Asociacion Santiago Jocotan has various programmes: but primarily it runs a small hospital, and works to reduce the child malnutrition you find in the surrounding villages. While we're here, we'll be helping to improve the financial management and IT of the organisation by sharing what we know. After that, we plan to ta... full info

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