Guatemala

group of Guatemalan women from CEMIK sit with Joan and smile for the camera

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="320" height="240" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CEMIK-crew.jpg" alt="group of Guatemalan women from CEMIK sit with Joan and smile for the camera" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CEMIK-crew.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CEMIK-crew.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4585" />

CEMIK crew

women inside of a greenhouse checking on the tomato plants

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/130268447_872534203517452_3766719994835538587_n-400x284.jpg" alt="women inside of a greenhouse checking on the tomato plants" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/130268447_872534203517452_3766719994835538587_n.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/130268447_872534203517452_3766719994835538587_n-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-6566" />

growing tomatoes in the greenhouse of chajul

Guatemalan friends stand in nature on a plot of land they just bought

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_9504-400x284.jpeg" alt="Guatemalan friends stand in nature on a plot of land they just bought" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_9504-scaled-e1585539743997.jpeg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_9504-400x284.jpeg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4764" />

Guatemala friends

covid rations being delivered in Chajul, man carries a bag of grain out of the back of a truck

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-food-in-chajul-400x284.jpeg" alt="covid rations being delivered in Chajul, man carries a bag of grain out of the back of a truck" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-food-in-chajul.jpeg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-food-in-chajul-400x284.jpeg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-5077" />

delivering food in chajul

Joan and a couple of Catlin Gable volunteers stand with Guatemala team

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Catlin-Gable-students-visit-1-400x284.jpeg" alt="Joan and a couple of Catlin Gable volunteers stand with Guatemala team" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Catlin-Gable-students-visit-1-scaled-e1585544693745.jpeg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Catlin-Gable-students-visit-1-400x284.jpeg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4465" />

Catlin Gable students visit

Juana and her family sit together in their new kitchen

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/juana-and-family-in-new-kitchen-400x284.jpg" alt="Juana and her family sit together in their new kitchen" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/juana-and-family-in-new-kitchen-e1585544741529.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/juana-and-family-in-new-kitchen-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4462" />

juana and family in new kitchen

covid care packages Guatemala deliveries group of Guatemalans sitting in the back of a pickup truck with supplies

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-care-packages-400x284.jpeg" alt="covid care packages Guatemala deliveries group of Guatemalans sitting in the back of a pickup truck with supplies" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-care-packages.jpeg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/delivering-care-packages-400x284.jpeg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-5076" />

delivering care packages

Brandon, one of our scholarship students, in Guatemala with his family in a kitchen

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Brandon-400x284.jpg" alt="Brandon, one of our scholarship students, in Guatemala with his family in a kitchen" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Brandon-e1585549933296.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Brandon-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4242" />

Brandon

woman poses with an excited smile and arms in the air in the jungle in Chajul as if in celebration

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="320" height="240" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/excited-about-purchasing-land.jpg" alt="woman poses with an excited smile and arms in the air in the jungle in Chajul as if in celebration" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/excited-about-purchasing-land.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/excited-about-purchasing-land.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4578" />

excited about purchasing land

young kids in Guatemala loading the schoolbus in Chajul

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/schoolbus-400x284.jpg" alt="young kids in Guatemala loading the schoolbus in Chajul" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/schoolbus-e1585550002286.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/schoolbus-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4240" />

schoolbus

guatemalan girl at school desk with notebook

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/guatemalan-girl-in-CEMIK-classroom-with-her-homework-400x284.jpg" alt="guatemalan girl at school desk with notebook" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/guatemalan-girl-in-CEMIK-classroom-with-her-homework-scaled.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/guatemalan-girl-in-CEMIK-classroom-with-her-homework-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-6689" />

guatemalan girl in CEMIK classroom with her homework

Guatemalan women stand in a construction site with wooden beams up for support

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/constructInside-400x284.jpeg" alt="Guatemalan women stand in a construction site with wooden beams up for support" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/constructInside-scaled.jpeg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/constructInside-400x284.jpeg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-6939" />

constructInside

two students from CEMIK writing in their notebooks in a classroom

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CEMIK-writing-400x284.jpg" alt="two students from CEMIK writing in their notebooks in a classroom" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CEMIK-writing-e1585550179206.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CEMIK-writing-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4232" />

CEMIK writing

greenhouse tomato harvest and Junta Directive four women in a field

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Junta-Directive-with-first-crop-of-Tomaotes-400x284.jpg" alt="greenhouse tomato harvest and Junta Directive four women in a field" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Junta-Directive-with-first-crop-of-Tomaotes.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Junta-Directive-with-first-crop-of-Tomaotes-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-5920" />

Junta Directive with first crop of Tomaotes

an old woman in the adult literacy program in Guatemala focuses on an open workbook in front of her

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/elders-learning-to-read-400x284.jpg" alt="an old woman in the adult literacy program in Guatemala focuses on an open workbook in front of her" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/elders-learning-to-read-e1585550132641.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/elders-learning-to-read-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4235" />

elders learning to read

some women dressed in traditional Guatemalan clothing crouch down on the ground planting seedlings

<img data-lazy-fallback="1" decoding="async" width="400" height="284" src="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/agriculture-400x284.jpg" alt="some women dressed in traditional Guatemalan clothing crouch down on the ground planting seedlings" srcset="https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/agriculture-e1585543887609.jpg 479w, https://mundoexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/agriculture-400x284.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width:479px) 479px, 100vw" class="wp-image-4581" />

agriculture

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