Twenty-five years ago, Manuela and her husband moved from San Antonio Palopo to the village of Chipop, a town located farther up the side of one of the mountains bordering Lake Atitlan. They had a small piece of property there, and her husband built a small, one-room
We first found out about Magdalena a few months back, as Alejandra, our community development and social worker, was searching out families or individuals who did not have stoves and who were cooking over open fires in their homes, as these individuals were eligible to receive one
Mission Guatemala in San Andrés Semetabaj was the destination of 25 Indiana and Nebraska Volunteers in Mission from July 16-25. The team members provided medical care and vision screening by an Optometrist; held VBS for 100 children in Nueva Esperanza; and assisted in building a home for
June 25-July 4, 2011, 20 people from Christ United Methodist Church (Lafayette, IN) and Our Saviour Lutheran Church, ELCA (West Lafayette, IN) worked alongside the staff of Mission Guatemala in San Andres, Semetebaj, and the surrounding area. The running joke before we left was that people could
Bluegrass United Methodist Church accomplished many things during its week working with Mission Guatemala! One group from the team set to work on completing the preschool playground. By the end of the week, the swing-set and seesaw were completed and the preschool children were having great fun!
With the help of a group from Bluegrass United Methodist Church from Evansville, Indiana, Mission Guatemala broke ground on its new feeding center in Nueva Esperanza. Nueva Esperanza is a displaced community overlooking San Andrés Semetabaj. The community was built to house families following Hurricane Stan in
The Mission Guatemala Preschool has a whole new look thanks to members of Nashville United Methodist Church in Nashville, Indiana. A hardworking group of six people transformed the front of the preschool building with a beautiful and colorful new mural designed by by popular Brown County Indiana
The children of the Chutinamit school, located in San Andrés Semetabaj, are very excited! They have a new computer to use in the classroom. The computer was a generous donation from Sugar River United Methodist Church in Verona, Wisconsin. The church received the Dell laptop computer from
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