Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Long Way Home

With Tuesday off work for Guatemalan Labor Day, I decided to finally visit the NGO Long Way Home (http://www.longwayhomeinc.org/en/index.php).  I won’t go into details, but there are a few different and long links that have brought me into contact with Long Way Home.  For more info, visit their website, but in short, they work to build houses and schools out of “trash, are also training people in this building technique, and at the same time are working on education and community development projects in San Juan Comalapa.  







A school under construction

Tire retaining wall

This is a house that was built for a local single mother.  It's got an indoor, greenhouse area, several rooms, and a complete rainwater harvesting system on the roof.



Murals in town


On the way back we passed through Tecpan and made a quick detour to the archaeological site Iximche.



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