Recovering in Chiquimula mall

April 19th 2013
Stories about the heat Memory plays tricks on you. You soften the edges, accentuate the positive, forget the boring bits, and obscure what you don't want to remember...so, here and now I will write about just how damn hot it is and has been. This is not a rant or long complaint, this is just trying to put words to this heat and how it makes you feel, because I know after 1 week back in ... 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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