Trip to El Rejon

This past week we went on a long 2 hour hike up toward Sumpango (through Barrio la Cruz) to visit a couple of families in El Rejon. It was a beautiful hike through farm land and mountains to get to El Rejon. This is a mostly indigenous community where they speak Spanish and Kaqchikel. It is much less common to come across an American in this area so they spotted us from the distance and the...

Upate on Flor de Maria’s Family

(( Flor(center) with siblings, with Stephanie, one of their 2 rooms, Flor’s mom beside their stove I hope to start writing updates on children in our school program and their families. Of course this will vary depending on my time here and the amount of people I am able to visit with. I recently went to visit the family of Flor de Maria, she has been in our school program since the...

Pelota sin Palabras (wordless ball)

On Saturday we arrived at Barrio La Cruz and hiked a little ways up to this open field, dusty as it can be, and where it is common to loose your ground, or at least a soccer ball to a very steep slope that goes about 100 feet down. Several adults and a very good number of children were waiting for us there!  As soon as we arrived Rolando gave everybody instructions on how they were supposed to...