Zuleika Lewisguatemala 2010
Earth Days
February 24, 2010
With a strong sense of motivation to make change, the volunteers of SolCom and I started a 3 day program at a community center in a small town called La Pista. The main focus of Earth Day is to educate kids about the importance of not throwing trash and how they can help. The first day we gave an interactive charla …(presentation) that addressed trash as a problem along with a guitar and songs that our friend Ian presented. We were expecting about 20 kids to come but to our surprise 71 kids showed up.
That said, we were incredibly
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty”
December 17, 2009
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty because otherwise it would not be beautiful and people would get sick,” said one of the kids in our last day during drama class when acting out how Guatemala would look if everyone kept throwing trash in the streets. It was such a powerful moment to witness such consciousness, especially since it was coming from kids about 9 to 12 years old. It was also a moment when I felt that things could change.
I…‘ve been in Nebaj for about a month and a couple of days and I have only seen
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty”
December 17, 2009
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty because otherwise it would not be beautiful and people would get sick,” said one of the kids in our last day during drama class when acting out how Guatemala would look if everyone kept throwing trash in the streets. It was such a powerful moment to witness such consciousness, especially since it was coming from kids about 9 to 12 years old. It was also a moment when I felt that things could change.
I…‘ve been in Nebaj for about a month and a couple of days and I have only seen
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty”
December 17, 2009
“We don’t want Guatemala to be dirty because otherwise it would not be beautiful and people would get sick,” said one of the kids in our last day during drama class when acting out how Guatemala would look if everyone kept throwing trash in the streets. It was such a powerful moment to witness such consciousness, especially since it was coming from kids about 9 to 12 years old. It was also a moment when I felt that things could change.
I…‘ve been in Nebaj for about a month and a couple of days and I have only seen
Más Mani porfavor (More peanut butter please)
December 1, 2009
As time evolves so does the peanut butter project “Más Mani porfavor“. This week we made about 5 jars which 4 of them were sold for 22 quetzales (about 3 U.S dollars). Out of those 22 quetzales 2 are giving back if the jar is returned. It is incredibly exciting to see things moving along.
…For right now our principal customer is the Restaurant “El Descanso” where Shreya (another volunteer at Soluciones Comunitarias) has made veggie Burgers, chow mei and a banana shake with our Peanut butter being the main ingredient. People have been buying all these new plates at
Más Mani porfavor (More peanut butter please)
December 1, 2009
As time evolves so does the peanut butter project “Más Mani porfavor“. This week we made about 5 jars which 4 of them were sold for 22 quetzales (about 3 U.S dollars). Out of those 22 quetzales 2 are giving back if the jar is returned. It is incredibly exciting to see things moving along.
…For right now our principal customer is the Restaurant “El Descanso” where Shreya (another volunteer at Soluciones Comunitarias) has made veggie Burgers, chow mei and a banana shake with our Peanut butter being the main ingredient. People have been buying all these new plates at
Projects in Guatemala
November 20, 2009
Today we went to a village called Vi Chibala – about 40 minutes away from Nebaj. We went to do the publicity for a campaign to promote glasses, water filters and light bulbs that last about 5 to 8 years. Vi Chibala is a beautiful town in the mountains of Coxal, where I saw the most diverse and exotic plants. It was great publicity, and people seemed very receptive and interested in our products.
…Hopefully they respond the same way to our projects, which I am so excited about. We are making peanut butter to sell with the youth at
