Back in 2006 I took a team of people down to Guatemala to do some work in Xatzán Guatemala. We had a great time and got to meet some wonderful people while doing the work on three church buildings. We stayed a week in Patzun while working on the buildings in Xatzán. This area of Guatemala is so beautiful and the people are wonderful. I could easily live in this part of the country. I don’t think my family could easily adapt to this life, since it is like falling back to the 1800’s lifestyle.
These young women were so fascinated in watching us work, it is probably easy to say that they had never seen people from other countries before. This area of Guatemala is pretty much untouched by many people from the United States of other visiting people.
Author Tom Johnson 9-28-09
Mayan family kitchen
This is the family kitchen in a typical Mayan Indigious home in the highlands of Guatemala.
In the back of the kitchen the little room made of wood is the family bathroom.
This is a typical kitchen for the Mayan family, several homes I visit are not even this nice or roomy.
In the picture is a pot of chicken soup cooking on the open wood fire in the middle of the room. We sat with the family and enjoyed dinner later that evening, and to report the soup was wonderful.
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This is a picture of my wife Toni and a Mayan mother showing off her needle work. She is working on a new Hupil like the one she is wearing. All the art work and needle work is done by hand. This picture was taken while we were working on Escuela Integrada school in Chuchuca Guatemala. This family lives across the dirt lane from the school. Her children attend Escuela Integrada. If it was not for this school more than likely her children would not get an education.
I could not pass up taking this picture. We were in a church in Chuchuca Guatemala, Chuchuca is in the mountain highlands outside of Patzun Guatemala. These lovely faces on these children are something you never forget after being their. Children like this one is what Andrew and Becky Loveall gave up what they had in the United States to start Escuela Integrada school and give these children a chance for a education.
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This picture was taken this past year while in Chuchuca Guatemala. Our family and a friend of ours was their doing some work on Escuala Integrada School. The school was in bad shape and needed a lot of work done to it so it could be back in safe operating order for the children.
Becky speaking to the students at Chuchuca Guatemala Escuela Integrada school. The school year just beginning and students excited about going back to school. Andrew and Becky Loveall run both this school and Escuela Integrada in Antigua Guatemala. If it was not for these two schools several of these Mayan children would not have a education.
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