Youth Workshop & Community Interviews

We kicked the new year off with a workshop for all of the youth. The purpose was to teach the youth how to interview their neighbors about the history of their communities. The workshop went well, with 18 teenagers from 4 of the 5 villages in attendance. (Cajixay is a lot further away than the other villages and the roads proved too difficult from the rains for the students to travel.) The sad thing is that after planning the whole workshop we were too sick to help lead it. We caught a nasty dysentery bacteria that sent us to bed for 4.5 days with high fevers, diarrhea ---the works. Paola, an Agros Guatemala employee, led the workshop in our absence. We are feeling much better now, and have begun interviews in the villages with the help of the youth.
(To the RIGHT are several teenage girls inter-viewing a respected female elder from their community, Doña Teresa.)


Next week we will take a little break from the project to work with a service team from our home church. The team, who arrives in the Ixil this Sunday, will be working with La Esperanza. We are excited to see some familiar faces and spend the week serving alongside them.