morelos in the alhóndiga

July 24th 2008
¡Hola a todos! Well, midterms are over and I passed! This last weekend our whole class went to Guanajuato, a beautiful town that once produced 20% of the world's silver. The city is located in a crevice between mountains and there are underground roads in the main part of the city for traffic which used to be mining tunnels (cool!). Nowadays the city mostly relies on tourism, and man are there ... read more

North America » Mexico » Michoacán » Morelia

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more

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Monika Roy

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I'm now working here in Haiti with an organization that I started volunteering with called SOIL - Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (http://www.oursoil.org). SOIL works to empower the community on dealing with sanitation issues from a holistic perspective. Traditional sanitation systems are not only scarce, but a challenge here as water and piping infrastructure barely exist. We have dry toilets set up in various communities and camps from the earthquake, and collect the toilet material to process at a composting site. The diverted urine is diluted and used to fertilize gardens and th... full info

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