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San Juan Comalapapopulation 39,000
View of
Comalapa
San Juan Comalapa
Dept. of Chimaltenango
Clustered city surrounded by small farming plots
Traditional traje, machete and hoe, “azidon”
Wood-burning stove, multi-generational compounds
Children all work
Market Day is Tues. Friday Sunday
Community Pila
Weaving is a major industry
What are Indigenous Peoples?
People who have the oldest historic connection to a placeThe “originals” (like aboriginals)
Mayans have lived off the land of Guatemala for over 1100 years. Have evidence of decline of Mayan civilization in 900.Comalapa was settled back to 1520. The Spanish conquered Petén in 1697.
In Comalapa, the indigenous Kaq’chikel are 95% of the population
5% of the world population
are considered indigenous yet
15% of the world’s poor are
indigenous.
Indigenous people are over-
represented in the group of
the “world’s poor.”
Indigenous people are an important group of
rural poor.
Indigenous people
constitute an
important group of
rural poor.
In Guatemala some 86.6% of
the indigenous
people are poor.
44% of population in
Guatemala are indigenous people
Why are we in Guatemala??
“the global poor, if only they had been born into different social circumstances, would be just as able andlikely to lead healthy, happy and productive lives as the rest of us.”
The root cause of their suffering is their abysmal social starting position, which does not give them much of a chance to become anything but poor, vulnerableand dependent — unable to give their children a better start than they had had themselves. -Thomas Pogge, Ass. Professor of Philosophy, Columbia U
StatisticsLife Cycle Median age:
36.7 years Median age:19.2 years
School Life Expectancy
total: 16 years male: 15 years female: 16 years (2006)
total: 10 years male: 11 years female: 10 years (2006)
Gross National Income per capita
$41,950 $4,410
Literacy 99%99% male99% female
56%63% male49% female
Population below poverty line
12% 56%
Expenditures on education
5.3% of GDP (2005)
2.6% of GDP (2006)
USA Guatemala
Facts taken from the Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook
Long Way Home’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty
among youth in developing communities by
•Creating educational opportunities
Tecnico Maya Vocational School
•Cultivating civic interactionSimajuleu Civic Group
•Encouraging healthy lifestylesParque Chimyá
Recycling
Rebecca Sanchez, Volunteer Coordinator
Ericka Temple, Architect
Aaron Colvin, Assistant Project Mgr.
Matt Paneitz, Executive Director, Founder LWH
Adam Howland, Project Mgr.Liz Howland
Not shown: Andy Case, Webmaster
Parque Chimiyá
Parque Chimiya, basketball court, soccer field, organic gardens, public park open dawn to dusk
Reforestation Program: 37,000 trees planted in four years
1,182 hours of work
Typical method of trash disposal
Raw materials
Tires are collected from Chimaltenango, 30 miles away
Excavation
Rafael works on a tire for the vocational school.
Adam and the crew fill tires with earth.
Foundation is filled with gravel and earth-filled tires
Crew filling top tier of tires
School taking shape
Volunteer bringing concrete to roof
November 2009February 2010Finished interior-no tires in sight
Roof has a drainage system that diverts water to a cistern.
Volunteer fills a liter bottle with earth to make a brick.
Earth-filled and litter-filled liter bottles form the structure for building.
Earth-filled and litter-filled liter bottles form the structure for building.
Bottles filled with litter are the basis for this structure which became a community library.
http://catorcekt.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOouXAC42c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SvZ_8Tq8Jo
350 interns and volunteers
since 2004
We believe that in order to break the cycle of poverty people need to
know that it exists.
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