A Politicized "Beauty" Pageant
Last Friday we had the fortune to attend the election of the Reina Flor del Cafe 2009 in San Antonio. It was really wonderful to see how the concept of […]
Last Friday we had the fortune to attend the election of the Reina Flor del Cafe 2009 in San Antonio. It was really wonderful to see how the concept of […]
A 2-hour debriefing session yesterday afternoon with all of the students led to some specific decisions in terms of how we want to be working here in San Antonio, and […]
Silvia, one of the women who attended our first meeting yesterday, invited us today to join her and her family to learn how to cook “Pepian,” a typical Guatemalan dish. […]
Although we were supposed to meet with the artisan women with whom we’ll be working, a last minute invitation to them from the central government postponed our meeting for Wednesday. […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature and impact of development initiatives since we left New York yesterday morning. My seating arrangement on the flight from Miami to Guatemala […]
Today’s day started with a typical breakfast (more on that later), a stop to purchase a couple of inexpensive cellphones (the two major companies are Claro and Tigo) for our […]
We are happy to be back in Guatemala. This year we are doing things a bit differently. First, we are excited to be working with a new group of artisan […]