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The main square, Sunday market

April 7th 2013
******************* Clowns We are tall here. So it was that wandering down busy 6th Avenida in Guate we couldn't just be silent observers of a performance from a clown (side note - Guatemala City loves clowns). We watched and giggled for a while as a tall American tourist was subjected to the customary humilation and at that point we tried to wander off. Not so fast. ... 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

LittleAndLarge

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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