First session in San Antonio Aguas Calientes
Students organized a successful information session for Monday afternoon. It was promoted via posters that were taped around town, flyers they handed out, word of mouth by walking door to […]
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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 […]
Community Tourism
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 […]
Cooking a Typical Guatemalan Lunch
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. […]
Setting Goals
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. […]
Reflections on collaborative development #1: Implications of "sweat aid"
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 […]
Day 1 – A Total Immersion
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 […]
Back in Guatemala – faculty & students
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 […]
In March 2009 I returned to San Lucas Toliman to continue working with the women of Ajkem’a Loy’a on the tracksuit we are developing for W139 , one of the main […]