tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144608078836634782024-02-21T10:57:02.597-06:00Pop Wuj Projects BlogThis is the Pop Wuj Projects Blog where we provide updates on our ongoing educational, health, and environmental projects in various rural areas of the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-43857623014634226372018-09-30T11:44:00.000-06:002018-09-30T11:44:42.688-06:00Vamos a la Mini-Feria! Celebrating Independence Day at the Family Support Center<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Amy Scheuren</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photos by Marta Escobar</span><br />
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Thursday September 13th featured the 7th Annual Mini-Feria at the Family Support Center in Llanos del Pinal! It was a marvelous day full of music, dancing, a haunted house, games, and huge amounts of food.<br />
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Family Support Center staff, Pop Wuj staff, students, and volunteers, and the participants' mothers all contributed to make it a wonderful day for the children. Every year the participants' mother prepare "fair food" including elotes locos (crazy corn on the cob). The children played games, won prizes, and gobbled up the brightly colored cotton candy.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-87528580353450359702018-09-13T08:29:00.001-06:002018-09-13T08:29:16.581-06:00Creating Positive Change<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text and Photos by Mike Salsbury, a recent Pop Wuj Spanish Social Work student</span><br />
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As I wind down my Spanish immersion experience at <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/" target="_blank">Pop Wuj</a>, it is time to reflect even more on the eye-opening experiences I have gained and to recognize the many lessons learned on this journey to Guatemala.<br />
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There truly is something unique and special about the Pop Wuj school and the purpose of its existence. From hours long discussions with long-time instructors, whose work now ripples across borders and into communities all over the planet, to workers who are former project participants now serving in their own communities with the passion to help others, the lesson is that positive change starts and exists within us all both--as individuals and as contributing members of our communities...It is a powerful energy that thrives in such a place and that evolves from a deep sense of purpose.<br />
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I am fortunate that my employer has the vision to recommend participation in such a program. At least half of my clients will be Spanish speaking. In the past few weeks I have started a journey towards gaining improved skills towards speaking Spanish and will leave Pop Wuj with confidence that my experience in Guatemala will enhance my ability to develop a positive therapeutic relationship with those I serve as clinical supervisor of a substance use disorder treatment program. The quality of the therapeutic relationship is shown to be the most important component of facilitating positive changes in clients as it can enhance motivation and engagement.<br />
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This experience was very positive as it allowed me an opportunity to combine my passion for social justice with my past experience as a newspaper photojournalist.<br />
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While here I had the opportunity to observe some of the social programs and take a few photographs, some of which are included here.<br />
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I’m confident I’ll be back.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-31010853799422707352018-06-16T10:16:00.000-06:002018-06-16T10:16:21.612-06:00"Buenas Tardes" from the Family Support Center<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Amy Scheuren</span><br />
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For most of our international Pop Wuj students and volunteers, visiting the Family Support Center is one of the memorable experiences in Guatemala. Although every year brings new changes and new participants, the Family Support Center always provides nutritious food, academic support, and a safe place for children to learn, grow, and play. We’d like to share what’s new!<br />
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At the end of 2017 we said goodbye to four long-time Family Support Center participants who graduated from both primary school and the project. These students continue to receive scholarships from Pop Wuj, and Family Support Center’s staff and materials are available to support their education as needed.<br />
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In 2018 the Family Support Center is serving 30 children—a big jump from 25 the last two years!<br />
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In March we were all excited for the buildup to Semana Santa and Easter. The children made bunny masks and enjoyed an Easter egg hunt. Each year we incorporate aspects of Easter celebrations from Guatemala and other countries around the world into our celebration. Our snack stayed on theme with a hard-boiled egg!<br />
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One activity reviewed some of the themes of Easter (clockwise from top left): resurrection, reproduction, happiness, reflection, life, fertility, and spring.</div>
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This year we also launched <i>Buenas Tardes</i> activities every afternoon. During <i>Buenas Tardes</i>, we gather all the children and staff in the yard to greet each other and share news about upcoming activities at the Family Support Center. We also teach about values using games and dynamic activities.<br />
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<i>Buenas Tardes</i> is an opportunity not only to share with each other but also to strengthen language development. Everyone speaks Spanish in the project, but some staff also speak English and/or K'iche', the local indigenous Mayan language. Despite K'iche' being a required class in primary school, usually only older adults in the community speak it in their daily lives. At <i>Buenas Tardes</i> Family Support Ccenter staff introduce new words in English and K'iche' in an easy, fun, and meaningful way.<br />
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One afternoon the children played a racing game. Each pair had to use communication and teamwork skills to race with the balloon between them—and also had a great time.<br />
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Stayed tuned for more updates from the Family Support Center. If you'd like to support the 30 children who participate in the project, please donate to our US partner, <a href="http://www.todos-juntos.org/" target="_blank">Foundation Todos Juntos</a>, and indicate that you would like your donation to support the Family Support Center.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-77355967511996166302018-06-13T11:33:00.000-06:002018-06-13T11:33:12.106-06:00Tom's Visit Part 4 of 4: Education in Guatemala: 'Español con Solidaridad’<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Tom Kemple </span><br />
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<i>Tom Kemple is a sociology professor at the University of British Columbia and a long-time friend of Pop Wuj. He and his colleague Sylvia Berryman in Philosophy have been bringing groups of students to study in Guatemala since the summer of 2010</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>—in fact, they had a group at Pop Wuj in June!</i></span><br />
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<i>In November and December 2016, Tom spent five weeks studying Spanish, building stoves, helping out in the clinic and Nutrition Program, and having fun at the Family Support Center. What follows is the fourth and final installment of his field notes from his trip for his research project on university field schools and study abroad programs, titled “Global Citizenship at Home and Abroad.” We hope you enjoy Tom's stories and </i><i><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">insights </span></span></i>as much as we enjoyed having him back at Pop Wuj. </i><br />
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One Thursday I attended Oscar’s afternoon lecture on ‘Education in Guatemala.’ He arrived at his focus on the poor state of the current school system since its beginnings in the liberal reforms of the 1870s after first laying out the factors blocking its development—cultural (instruction is in Spanish, thereby excluding most of the 79% indigenous-speaking communities); economic (the mostly rural population lives far from schools, so even basic supplies are scarce and most children must work after a few years of schooling); and political (the civil war from 1960 to 1996 left the government oligarchy unwilling to support a system that could spread critical viewpoints and new ideas through literacy and open discussion).<br />
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With the rise of ‘coffee capitalism’ in the western part of the country at the end of the 19th century, and under the influence of the United Fruit Company in the first half the 20th, the ‘liberal-fascist' government of Jorge Ubico (1931-1944) passed laws requiring men to work 140 days in the plantations and build roads and trains, often under the threat of public execution (which took place in cemeteries like the one in Xela). The so-called Guatemalan Spring of 1944-1954 not only advanced agricultural reform through the notorious ‘Decreto 900,’ but also developed a strong labour code along with a formal system of urban and rural education. The subsequent counterrevolutionary period of military rulers (1954-1986) that began with the US-orchestrated coup suspended these reforms until the post-conflict period (1996-present), when funding from the UN and World Bank and some government programs increased access to education, especially for girls, who now outnumber boys in continuing on past primary school.<br />
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Nevertheless, only about 69% of the population makes it to high school (the inflated official government statistic of 110% includes 13-25 year-olds who episodically study after primary school), and at least 28% of them are functionally illiterate (that is, only competent in certain contexts, such as signing forms or doing basic calculations).<br />
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Among the many statistics that Oscar wrote out for us on the white board was that each of the approximately 125 students who receive scholarships through Pop Wuj, from primary to high school to university (and who made so much noise at the annual assembly during my Spanish class!), receive on average 100 quetzales per month for supplies and food, tuition, and other education related expenses (about $13US). Nearly all these funds come from Spanish classes, donations from former students, and other private donors, or in other words, from gringos like me.<br />
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Oscar’s remarks about the fundamental and increasing importance of the Pop Wuj Scholarship Program reminded me of my bus ride out of Panajachel to Xela last month, when three energetic boys in their early teens, returning to Sololá after a morning swim in the lake—Manuel, Oscar, and Fausto — sat next to me, firing off a string of questions about life in Canada. I was thrilled with my ability to keep up with their Spanish, and told them how impressed I was that each of them could speak three languages fluently, including Quiché and Kakchikel. One of the first questions Fausto asked me was whether I could arrange a beca (scholarship) for him. After explaining my understanding of 'how these things work', I told him the story of his name—the young student in medieval Germany who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, wealth, and power. He smiled politely at me through his tinted glasses, and repeated his question.<br />
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Despite the poor state of the education system here, in some ways Xela does seem to live up to the extravagant dreams of its native son, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, the president from 1898 to 1920. Cabrera is sometimes compared with Castro; is considered by some to be the first of the Latin American dictators; and is often credited with establishing at least the appearance of a country dedicated to education and intellectual life. His ambitions are displayed in the beautiful Greco-Roman architecture of the Teatro Municipal, the Parque Central, and the Templo de Minerva, named in honour the goddess of wisdom: all were under construction by indigenous planners and workers during his presidency or reconstructed after the volcano eruption of 1902 and the earthquake of 1903.<br />
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In addition to the ‘colegios’ and 'institutos' (private and public high schools) that seem to be everywhere, I can hardly keep track of all the universities I’ve encountered in the past few weeks: San Carlos (the public university from which many other Pop Wuj teachers graduated); Landivar (the private university where my teacher Fredy graduated, and where scholarship student Kevin began classes in January 2017); Panamericana (another private university where a group of communications students recently made a short video about the school); and Friedrich von Hayek (a pre-university college for professional degrees where a friend of Kevin’s recently graduated) amongst others. The latter caught my attention since it’s named after the Nobel Prize winning Austrian economist whose theories of free markets, rational choice, and minimal state intervention are considered the foundations of neoliberalism. Hayek’s ideas have somehow inspired an institution featuring accelerated technical and professional training programs as the key to cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit and intellectual capacities of young people in one of the world’s most underdeveloped countries. When I sent a link to their website to my friend Nick in the U.K., a sociologist working on the influence of neoliberal ideas on post-war sociology, he remarked: "If there is one thing those kids don’t need it’s a dose of Hayek!” I pointed out that the lack of secure long-term public funding (as we have in Canada) means that the educational system often has to muddle through with a mixture of meager government support, private initiatives, and charity donations (such as the scholarships at Pop Wuj), with varying degrees of success and standards of quality.<br />
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Although I’ve known Oscar since first coming here in 2010, and had attended his fascinating talk on immigration and ‘the Latin American dream’ a few weeks ago, it was only toward the end of this remarkably fact-filled and politically charged lecture that I learned that he holds a doctorate. I was somewhat embarrassed to realize that I was not really listening to an amateur intellectual with a knack for statistics and a passion for undermining the trained ignorance and ingrained prejudices of educated gringos like me. Rather, I was engaging with a well-trained academic colleague with three jobs and an income that’s a tiny fraction of my own. As he spoke, the Pop Wuj motto began to ring through my head, 'Spanish with Solidarity,' and took on a new meaning for me.<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-58305881002669392222018-03-13T10:16:00.000-06:002018-03-13T10:16:03.517-06:00A Pop Wuj Student's Take on Our Beloved Xelaju<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text and photos by Dr. Kyle Biggs<br />La versión en español está abajo/</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spanish translation follows the English version</span><br />
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Green, red, orange, yellow and blue. These are some of the colors you might marvel at when visiting a market in the Guatemalan highland city known as Xe laju’ Noj in the predominant regional language, Quiché, or more commonly, Xela. Indigenous women in this part of the county can still be seen dressed in traditional wear on any given day. Fabrics of resplendent colors flecked with gold and silver are used to hand-stitch huipiles, dresses, belts and sashes are ascetically enticing and can transport you to a lost world that we can often times only find in books and movies today. Unfortunately, these many colors can also be found on the web page of the US State Department that as of January 10th has issued a travel warning to the beautiful nation of Guatemala. </div>
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I was stunned when I heard the news, that really at the end of the day was an issue of semantics, in which the highest level of warning a country could achieve (level 5) was wholly eliminated and Guatemala’s level or risk did not actually change (level 3). I had already spent just over 2 weeks in Xela and, providing my own personal endorsement that I consider myself an observant and conscientious traveler, the notion of personal danger had hardly registered. I had however, after a fortnight in the city that lives in the graceful gaze of the volcano Santa Maria, whose smooth, conical edges and gentle, rounded peak belie its difficult ascent (so I’m told), become cognizant of many things. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The city of Xela is one of contrasts and culture; it is considered the ancient seat of Quiché wisdom who inhabited this region for centuries before the arrival of the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524. Today it is also the home to some of the most fervent soccer fans in the county who cheer on their beloved Superchivos at the local stadium, Mario Camposeco. This love of sport carries over into daily life as well when people, young and old, brave the early morning chill to sweat out the prior nights transgressions running (and walking) laps at the track of the national sports complex. While the Olympic glory of Guatemala is brief, the region is home to the speed walker Erick Barrondo who took silver in the London game of 2012, the first medal in the country’s history. </span></div>
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The city of Xela has a vibrant middle class and Sundays are reserved for recreation and respite. Families can be seen spending their leisure time strolling through the historic Central Park, snacking on sweet breads and salted fruit. Total strangers routinely wish one another a pleasant day when they pass in the street or a bon appétit when meal time arrives. While traversing the city’s narrow, cobblestone streets, the gentle beep, beep of car horns can be heard politely warning pedestrians of their approach so they’ll clear a path. This courtesy gives voice to Xela’s many automobiles and adds yet another language to the list of regional tongues spoken in Guatemala’s highlands including Mam, Cakiquel and Quiché. </div>
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Appreciated in this way, it becomes apparent that the darling city of Xelajú, where the streets are bathed in light of a silver moon (to borrow a line from the city's most popular ballad "Moon of Xelaju") is one with many faces, none of which are characterized by danger or violence. As the saying goes, if you look for trouble, you’re likely to find it. It may very well be that these perils do exist here, in Guatemala City or along the northern border with Mexico for example, but traveling to any city the world over is not without risk, and Guatemala is no exception. I can only speak from my own personal experiences during my time here and overwhelmingly, these have been defined by kindness, respect and gratitude.</div>
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Verde, rojo, azul, naranja y amarillo. Éstos son algunos de los colores que se pueden observar en la ciudad altiplano guatemalteca conocida por su nombre K'iche', Xelajú Noj. O más comúnmente, Xela. La mujer indígena de esta región se viste en tela de colores resplandecientes, muchas veces moteada de oro que da a los huipiles, cortes, cintas, fajas y tzutes el carácter de un mundo perdido, solo visitado hoy en día por libros y películas. Desafortunadamente, estos colores también se encuentran en la página de la red del Departamento de Estado de Los Estados Unidos en la cual a partir del 10 de enero declaró una alerta de viaje para el bello país de Guatemala. </div>
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Me sorprendió bastante cuando supe de esta noticia. Que, al fin y al cabo, tiene que ver con la semántica de quitar el nivel de peligro más alto y realmente no cambió el nivel en donde se ubicó Guatemala. Yo llevaba casi dos semanas completas en la ciudad de Xela y hasta entonces, la idea de peligro ni me había cruzado la mente. La ciudad de Xela, la capital de conocimiento K’iche’. La ciudad de Xela hogar del estadio Mario Camposeco donde juega el querido equipo futbolista los Superchivos. La ciudad de Xela, donde gente tras gente se levanta a correr (o caminar) dando vueltas en la pista del Complejo Deportivo cada mañana. Unos obviamente homenajeando al olímpico Erick Barrondo que fue el primer ganador de la medalla de plata en la historia del país. La ciudad de Xela, donde se puede ver a familias completas paseándose en el Parque Central horas después del atardecer. La ciudad de Xela, donde las bocinas de los carros te hablan con un toque de cariño para que te salgas de la calle antes de su llegada. La ciudad de Xela, donde desconocidos te desean buenas tardes al pasarte en la calle o buen provecho a la hora de comer. </div>
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Así que, se puede apreciar que nuestra amada Xelajú, donde las calles están bañadas de luna plateada (prestando una letra del segundo himno nacional: Luna de Xelajú) es una ciudad de muchas fachadas distintas, pero ninguna de ellas se expresa en forma de violencia ni peligro. Sí, tal vez existen lugares en el país, la ciudad de Guatemala o en las tierras fronterizas mexicanas por ejemplo dónde haya violencia. Pero como cualquier nación en el planeta entero, si se busca problemas, los problemas se localizan. Por mi parte, yo solo puedo compartir las experiencias que he tenido y más que nada, han sido experiencias caracterizadas por la amabilidad, el respeto y el agradecimiento.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-85999630606414074362017-11-23T15:19:00.000-06:002017-11-23T15:27:21.892-06:00Tom's Visit Part 3 of 4: Cultural (In)competency<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Text by Tom Kemple</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tom Kemple is a
sociology professor at the University of British Columbia and a long-time
friend of Pop Wuj. With his colleague Sylvia Berryman in Philosophy, he has
been bringing groups of students to study in Guatemala since the summer of
2010. In November and December, 2016 he spent five weeks studying Spanish,
building stoves, helping out in the clinic and Nutrition Program, and having
fun at the Family Support Center. What follows are some of his fieldnotes from
his trip for his research project on university fieldschools and study abroad
programs, titled “Global Citizenship at Home and Abroad.” We hope you enjoy Tom's stories and </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">insights </span></span></i> as much as we enjoyed having him back at Pop Wuj. </span></span></i><br />
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<![endif]-->One of my aims in returning to <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/" target="_blank">Pop Wuj</a> has been to learn more about the school’s largest and most complex program — <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/medical-spanish/medical-spanish.html" target="_blank">Medical Spanish</a> combined with the <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/search/label/Health%20and%20Medical%20Projects" target="_blank">Clinic </a>downstairs. So I’ve started attending the ‘Competencia Cultural’ lectures given by Roney Alvarado, one of the founders of the school in 1992 and a professor of Anthropology at nearby San Carlos University.<br />
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Many of the students who have come here with me in the past remember Roney as the brilliant ‘organic intellectual’ who challenged us through three long sweaty sessions to ask a simple question: "Why am I here?” As students often say in pre-program interviews, they’re here for the courses and the credit, with some adventure and new experiences thrown in as an added bonus. Like the three medical students sitting with me the other day, my passage here has mostly been paid out of someone else’s pocket – my university’s Arts Research Abroad fund or a Research Stipend. For Roney, the question “why am I here?” cannot be reduced to the commercial service provided by the school, and so he invites us to think about the meaning and value of volunteer work. As he explained in our first session, the Pop Wuj philosophy turns the practice of other language schools on its head: rather than take a percentage of tuition fees and invest them into development projects undertaken by other organizations, Pop Wuj coordinates its own social and medical projects by offering services for fees (Spanish classes) that finance those projects. For that reason, it’s often impossible to fix an exact monetary relationship between tuition paid and projects delivered, as one would in a financial report.<br />
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The money we pay for classes and the muscle we put into volunteering are not simply economic resources but also ethical expressions of our social solidarity with the people and projects that are the heart and soul of this organization. <br />
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Although this is my fourth time attending Roney's lectures, he always seems to find new ways of connecting my personal experiences with larger questions about capitalism and colonialism. Listening to him shatters my assumptions about the place of intellectuals in the world, and undermines many of the liberal-philanthropic impulses that I bring with me here.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Roney Alvarado discusses the Safe Stove and Reforestation projects with families from Llanos del Pinal</span></span></td></tr>
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After Tuesday's cultural competency session, he came by to chat and noticed the book I was reading. The book was by Irma Alicia Valáquez Nimatuj, an indigenous woman who grew up who grew up in a middle class family in Xela, and has the daunting title La Pequeña Burguesía Indïgena Commercial de Guatemala: Desigualdades de Clasa, Raza y Genero (The Indigenous and Commercial Petit Bourgeoisie of Guatemala: Inequalities of Class, Race and Gender). He told me he appreciated the rich descriptions of everyday life in Velásquez’s study, but thought she sometimes used rigid racial categories without reflecting critically on them. In particular, he argued, the social meanings of ‘Mestizo, Criollo, Ladino, and Indigenous’ change in various contexts, each taking on distinctive significance according to the historical and cultural complexities of Guatemala. <br />
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When I asked him to say a bit more, he elaborated on the meaning of ‘Ladino,’ the racial group that he himself identifies with and that is often the target of stereotypes. Roney pointed out that the term in colonial times referred to baptized or Hispaniciazed Indians, although later came to have class connotations that included poor non-indigenous peasants and urban workers. As I’ve been reading in other books, Ladino in Guatemala is different from what in Mexico or Nicaragua is referred to as Mestizo, which is understood more as a self-consciously ‘mixed’ (European and indigenous) identity. As Roney stressed, the process of so-called ‘ladinoized’ identity-formation cuts in many directions, and cannot refer only to the ‘Europeanization’ of rising economic classes or political elites, since it is also evident in many other alliances of solidarity between social groups, and in movements toward ‘indigenization’ as well.<br />
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I have noted some of these cross-currents here at the school, beginning with its Mayan name, and in the commitment of both ‘Ladino’ and self-identified ‘indigenous’ teachers to work with poor indigenous communities. I also found Roney’s remarks helpful in understanding the coffee finca near Reu which our group has visited on previous trips, where the poverty so evident among Ladino peasants is in many ways similar to the conditions of indigenous communities such as Llano del Pinal. <br />
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In that morning’s lecture Roney placed a lot of emphasis on commonplace stereotypes of the culturally incompetent ‘do-gooding gringo,’ often with a touch of anger and cynicism, but always with good humour and penetrating insight. He pointed out that the families who come to the clinic or who benefit from the social projects often hold many of these same stereotypes, as do some of the Guatemalan doctors, and for that reason he holds cultural competency discussions with them as well (see the photo above of the Safe Stove group meeting). <i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-7480340191593259062017-11-14T19:30:00.000-06:002017-11-14T19:30:15.676-06:00Tom's Visit, Part 2 of 4: Classrooms Off Campus<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Tom Kemple</span><br />
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<i>Tom Kemple is a sociology professor at the University of British Columbia and a long-term friend of Pop Wuj. With his colleague Sylvia Berryman in Philosophy, he has been bringing groups of students to study in Guatemala since the summer of 2010. In November and December of 2017 he spent five weeks studying Spanish, building stoves, helping out in the Pop Wuj Clinic and Nutrition Program, and having fun at the Family Support Center. What follows are some writings from his trip created in the course of his research project on university fieldschools and study abroad programs, titled “Global Citizenship at Home and Abroad.” We hope you enjoy Tom's stories and insights as much as we enjoyed having him back at Pop Wuj.</i><br />
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My daily rhythms give me a certain confidence and security
in being here: Isabel and the Mayan Cosmovision symbol behind her greet me as I
enter the school; I immerse myself in Spanish classes every day; watch a film
in the evening (“Men With Guns” and “Ixcanul: The Volcano” are well worth it);
attend Luis’s roundtable on justice for indigenous people; help out in buying
and delivering materials for safe stoves; attend a birthday party at the Family
Support Center; help make a fruit salad for our weekly Thursday dinner; or go
on a long weekend hike to Lake Chicabal with Alberto and some other
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I am slowly getting used to the confusions and irritating inconveniences at my homestay as well: the door to the bedroom only closes after a struggle; the electric heating unit in the shower seems permanently set to tepid, and always hits me in the head; and my housemate and I were locked out of the bathroom for several days when I closed the door behind me. The two-block walk to and from school is an obstacle course of broken sidewalks, dog doo, and unpredictable traffic, which is especially hazardous in the dark. <br />
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As I learn to modify my ordinary assumptions and everyday habits, I also come to understand something about myself as a citizen of a supposedly more developed and civilized world. Everyday I have to unlearn things that had always seemed normal and natural to me, and I retrain myself to see my habits and assumptions as products of a long history that I otherwise take for granted.<br />
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As many of the students we’ve brought here have said over the years, Pop Wuj’s Safe Stove Project in the poor indigenous village of Llano del Pinal just outside of town is among the most challenging and moving experiences one can have in a lifetime. I spent last Tuesday (election day in the U.S.) helping Carmelina, Benedicto, and another student, Alison, to sift, measure, and mix sand, cement and water for the last of the three stages involved in building a ‘safe stove’ (estufa segura). <br />
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Doña Maria, the old woman in the blue blouse in the photo, is almost blind from cooking over an open fire over a lifetime in this tiny shack, which I could hardly bear being in for more than 10 minutes at a time (and I live with a chain smoker!). As my Spanish teacher Gerson pointed out to me, the main incentive for people like Doña Maria in having a stove built is the economic saving rather than the health or environmental benefits: 5-6 bags of firewood per month at 30 Quetzales each (about $4US) can be reduced to 3-4 bags with the new stove. <br />
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These savings seem to be offset by the large concrete house which is also being built on the plot, presumably from remittances in US dollars sent by relatives working in the States. Despite these improvements, Doña Maria tells us she plans to continue cooking in the shack and living in the wood and straw hut located just behind it. <br />
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The afternoon unfolded without a hitch, with our leader Carmelina, who lives in this community (and who took the photo of us), giving us very clear instructions, all the while chatting in K'iché and Spanish with Doña Maria and some neighbors who stopped by.<br />
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The next day Carmelina led me, Mynor, Elizabeth, and Carmen, along with 14 members from the families who would be receiving stoves in the coming months, to buy and distribute the stove materials. This time things did not come off so smoothly: the hardware store opened late; we had a hard time organizing a human chain to get 800 bricks loaded onto our truck at the factory; the store that supplied the cement was no longer there; the people delivering the blocks seemed to be lost for the first couple hours; and the caravan of trucks could only barely maneuver in and out of the narrow dirt roads of the village. <br />
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Each of these expenditures of muscle and money made me think about the meaning and value we might take from coordinating our efforts for a task that each of us benefits from differently. Or as the sociologist in me would put it, the day reminded me how the material division of labour is infused with a moral spirit of solidarity that each of us experiences in our own way.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-40434778773692327202017-05-17T11:26:00.003-06:002017-05-17T11:27:34.932-06:00"Hasta Luego," not "Adios"<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Text by Emily Rempel and photos as noted</span><br />
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<i>General Projects Coordinator Emily Rempel finished her 3 months of intensive volunteering at Pop Wuj on May 5.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How does one properly reflect on a life-changing,
four-month-long experience in one single blog post? It simply doesn’t seem
possible. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I arrived in Xela the evening of Saturday, January 7<sup>th </sup>and
to be honest, I was terrified. The sun had already gone down, my terrible sense
of direction was failing me completely, and I had spent the day subsisting on
the few remaining power bars that I had in my backpack. Looking back on the “what
the heck am I doing here” messages I had sent to my mom (like the proper almost
23-year-old adult I am), I can’t help but laugh and be completely amazed by how
much has happened since then and how much I’ve experienced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During my time at Asociación Pop Wuj I helped build numerous
stoves, I interviewed families for our current group of stove recipients, I got
to see our “<a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.ca/2017/03/stove-shopping-day.html">compra</a>” day where we bought and delivered enough materials for some
11 stoves. I listened to Carmelina, our stove boss, explain to every group of
volunteers just how big of an impact our safe stove project has on the families
of Llanos del Pinal, Xecaracoj, etc. I was welcomed into the homes of so many
families. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carmelina and I on my last day of stove building (Photo by student volunteer)</td></tr>
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I also got to participate in all of our medical projects,
which is a life experience I never expected to have. I got to help measure and
weigh babies in our Nutrition Prgoram and learned all about the different
supplements we use to help combat varying degrees of malnutrition. Through my own research for the <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.ca/2017/03/effects-of-malnutrition.html">blog</a>, I also learned way more about the pervasive problem
of malnutrition in Guatemala, how it self-perpetuates and is compounded by
intersecting social, political and institutional oppressions. I spent a week
working in the medical brigade with Pop Wuj and Timmy Global Health and learned
the Spanish names of countless medications that I had never even heard of in
English. I helped translate during triage in our Pop Wuj cCc, so that our
medical volunteers could provide the high level of care that Pop Wuj promises. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A favourite photo from a Nutrition day in La Victoria (Photo by Emily Rempel)</td></tr>
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I also spent a lot of time working in our Scholarship
Program and Family Support Center, two projects that focus on providing
opportunities for education. Meetings in our Scholarship Program always amaze
me. First, every participant there (usually mothers of scholarship recipients)
greets us and welcomes us to their community. Then, we discuss the progress of
our <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">becados (scholarship students)</span>, challenges faced in
school and at home, so that the educational journey of each of our <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">becados</span> is something shared and
supported by the entire group. At my last scholarship meeting, with our group
from Chirijquiac, we also discussed human rights: what <i>are</i> our human rights,
examples of how human rights are being denied, and the barriers that exist in
demanding our rights. The scholarship meetings always remind me that it is the
participants in our projects, usually women, who are leading the struggle for
human rights. It’s been an honour to work with Pop Wuj in helping to support
this struggle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last meeting with the scholarship group from Chirijquiac (Photo by Carmen de Alvarado)</td></tr>
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By far the most fun part of my internship was my afternoons
at the Family Support Center. The kids there are just SO GREAT. Each one is so
full of energy, so full of kindness, so full of potential. The FSC is a vital
part of the community of Llanos del Pinal. It provides a safe place for these
wonderful children to be nurtured, to explore, to grow. Saying goodbye to the
kiddoes there was incredibly hard, but I look forward to following their growth
through future posts on this blog - like this <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.ca/2017/05/el-dia-de-la-madre-2017.html">one</a>!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All smiles with <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rosemari and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Yadira (Photo by Emily Rempel)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Packed into our <i>casita</i> with the pequeños, Yosvin, Daniel, Emmanuel, Yadira, Andrea, and Daniela (Photo by Ashley Aue)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yadira and Daniela running circles around me (Photo by Elizabeth Barnes)</td></tr>
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Pop Wuj is a labour of love. It’s a project of passion. It’s
sustained through constant, non-stop work. In a country marked with
institutional weakness, pervasive corruption, that continues to be robbed of
its resources, that has been, and continues to be, so thoroughly affected by
colonialism, it’s grassroots organizations like Pop Wuj that help realize the
human rights of the most marginalized Guatemalans. The opportunity to be a part
of this human rights work has been, by far, the best thing that I have ever
done in my life. I am eternally grateful for my time here and look forward to
supporting Pop Wuj from afar, in whatever way I can. A Pop Wuj - gracias y nos
vemos otra vez.<br />
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<i>Emily's internship at Pop Wuj was the final requirement for her Bachelor of Arts in Human Rights at the University of Winnipeg, and she graduates this semester. ¡Gracias por todo, Emily, y que te vayas bien!</i><br />
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<i>You can read more blog posts written by Emily or spotlighting her by clicking <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/search?q=emily+rempel">here</a>.</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-25527367809685354602017-05-12T11:07:00.003-06:002017-05-12T11:07:44.695-06:00El Día de la Madre 2017<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text and photos by Elizabeth Barnes</span><br />
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May 10 is el Día de la Madre in Guatemala. The annual Día de la Madre celebration at the Family Support Center always requires lots of forethought and preparation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director of the Family Support Center Shaaron Hurtado welcomes everyone to the Día de la Madre event. This year seven students from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/butimmy/">Butler University</a> who will be participating in a <a href="https://timmyglobalhealth.org/">Timmy Global Health</a> brigade attended.</td></tr>
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This year our FSC staff had to set up the new site for the festivities with the possibility of early rainy season showers. Our chef, Kevin, had to cook a special dinner for more than a dozen extra people. The teachers planned mini competitions for the mothers to be interspersed throughout the Día de la Madre presentations by the kids.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most challenging competition requires mothers to beat an egg into a foam so thick that it stays in the bowl when you turn it upside down! Doña Silvia (fourth from right) won the competition. She is the afternoon teacher of the youngest kids at the Family Support Center and the mother of Santos, teacher of the middle group of kids (third from right).</td></tr>
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Most importantly, the FSC kids had to make gifts for their moms and learn choreography for Mother’s Day performances.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girls of the oldest class kicked off the dances with marimba music they'd chosen themselves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Later they'd return to the stage for a Top 40 hit: "Despacito."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The boys of the oldest class incorporated some classic 90s boy band moves into their routine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Some dancers in the youngest group favored a more improvisational style.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Santos's class of the youngest school-age kids started with a cowboy-themed number.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a costume change, they reappeared for their own dance to typical Guatemalan marimba music.</td></tr>
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Pop Wuj collaborates with dozens of mothers who continually advocate for the health, education, and wellbeing of their families. We couldn’t work with the children at the Family Support Center without their parents’ active participation, and we’re proud to count many women in Llanos del Pinal among our partners. ¡Feliz día de la madre!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-1072638017851861302017-05-07T15:37:00.001-06:002017-05-07T15:37:05.486-06:00¡Nos vemos, Pop Wuj!<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Mary Gramiak and photos as noted</span><br />
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<i>Environmental Projects Coordinator Mary Gramiak finished her 3 months of intensive volunteering at Pop Wuj on April 7.</i><br />
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General Projects Coordinator Emily Rempel and Mary celebrate a successful day of stove construction! You can read more about their experience flying solo <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/02/off-come-training-wheels.html">here</a>. (Photo by Señor Sales, Safe Stove Project participant)</div>
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Three months of laughs later, and the time has come for me to say goodbye to Pop Wuj. </div>
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Interning as Environmental Projects Coordinator with Pop Wuj has been such a wild ride. From stove construction to translating in the clinics, from scholarship meetings to Timmy brigades, these three months offered an opportunity to test skills I didn’t even know I had.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mary carefully negotiates moving one of the Family Support Center's cabinets alongside Pop Wuj students and Director of the Medical Program Roney Alvarado. You can read more about moving the FSC <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/02/moving-day-at-family-support-center.html">here</a>. (Photo by Elizabeth Barnes)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mary helps sort recycyling to be weighed at the private recycling center outside Salcajá in March. You can read a little more about recent recycling work <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-very-feliz-dia-de-la-tierra.html">here</a>. (Photo by Elizabeth Barnes)</td></tr>
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While I focused on safe stoves, something which was awesome about Pop Wuj was the diversity of projects I was able to lend a hand in. Working with the clinics was a personal favorite. Whether it was translating consults, helping out in pharmacy, or weighing babies with Dr. Herman, there was always something new to be done.</div>
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Above all, working in the communities around Xela was the most rewarding part of the internship. While three months isn’t an exceptionally long time, it was long enough to get to know some of the women, children, and families, who participate in the programs. After a couple weeks, faces in Xecaracoj and Llanos del Pinal started to look a lot more familiar, and we were regularly greeted with kisses on the cheek.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mary leads a Nutrition Program presentation about indoor air pollution in Llanos del Pinal in January a couple weeks after starting her internship. You can read more about Mary's experience with this presentation <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/02/talking-indoor-air-pollution.html">here</a>. (Photo by Elise Lynch)</td></tr>
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What really struck me was how easy I settled in at Pop Wuj and in Xela. Even the chicken bus felt totally normal after a couple of rides, and I had to remind myself when we had volunteers that this was a totally new experience for them. That feeling of comfort and normality, even in an environment which is so different than what I was accustomed to, is completely attributable to the community which Pop Wuj has built, and I will miss it very much. </div>
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So thank you Pop Wuj and thank you Xela! You will always have a very special place in my heart and I am so grateful for the time we were able to spend together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary hefts a bag of clay into a Safe Stove Project paricipant's home. You can read about our Safe Stove Project "compra," or materials shopping and delivery day, <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/03/stove-shopping-day.html">here</a>. (Photo by Emily Rempel)</td></tr>
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<i>Mary has returned to Canada to complete her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Global Politics at Carleton University. ¡Te deseamos todo lo mejor, Mary! Que te vayas bien.</i></div>
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<i>You can read more blog posts written by Mary or spotlighting her by <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/search?q=mary+gramiak&max-results=20&by-date=true">clicking here</a>.</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-44478609908240321552017-05-02T10:03:00.000-06:002017-05-02T10:03:37.223-06:00Fiesta at the FSC<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Text and photos by Emily Rempel</span><br />
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On Thursday, April 27 we threw a birthday party for all of the Family Support Center participants who had birthdays between January and April of this year. We had 7 birthday kids for this party: Arturo (13), Jonathan (8), Ingrid (10), Zulmy (8), Moises (7), Brandon (7), and Miguel Angel (11). To celebrate, we brought two piñatas (one for the bigger kids and one for the littler kids), party favours, presents for the birthday kids, and two cakes. The party started off with the piñata for our youngest group of kids!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yadira and Daniela giving Mario a farewell hug before the piñata fun begins! </td></tr>
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Once the candy from the first piñata had all been scooped up by the kids, we strung up the second piñata for our older kids!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damaris getting ready to take her first swing </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn shows Mario some muscle!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisters Damaris and Zulmy pack up their candy </td></tr>
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After the excitement of the piñatas, we all went inside for presents and cake. First we handed out the party favours; each kid got a little backpack with a couple of treats, a sticker set, and a fun eraser.<br />
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Then it was time for cake! Carmen led us all in a round of "Happy Birthday" before the birthday kids blew out their candles and everyone dug into their pieces of cake.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carmen leads the group in singing "Happy Birthday"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel is too busy enjoying his cake to care about the icing all over his chin!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yadira follows Daniel's example and doesn't worry about the icing on her eyebrow</td></tr>
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Daniel's smile says it all - the party was a sugar-filled blast! Our Family Support Center kids are truly the most wonderful young people. It's so special and so important to celebrate each and every one of them by marking their birthdays with a fiesta. We can't wait until next time, when we celebrate the May to August birthdays!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel's all smiles</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-20576394351085686812017-04-28T11:27:00.000-06:002017-04-28T11:27:51.532-06:00Spotlight on Nutrition Month<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Text and photos by Emily Rempel</span><br />
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Throughout the month of March we invited you to share in the work of our Nutrition Program, offering the chance to view this project from a multitude of perspectives. First, we introduced you to the program by talking briefly about what it is that we do, why we need to do it, and how you can help. Take a look at the full Facebook post <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PopWujSpanishSchoolGuatemala/posts/10154584163049611">here</a>.<br />
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Then we shared the <a href="http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=142d77e793bce2d606e40cfd9&id=7e9957272b&e=d50da8b105" target="_blank">words</a> of our partner organization, Foundation Todos Juntos, who works with Pop Wuj to help raise funds for our various social projects. A call went out to Todos Juntos' network, as well as those following Pop Wuj, asking for help to continue running this vital project. In 2016 the costs associated with running the Nutrition Program grew significantly due to increased need for medical treatment including specialist care, medications, and baby and toddler follow-up visits. The reality is that this upward projection is expected to continue through 2017, which has certainly been the case over the first few months of this year. Foundation Todos Juntos offers an easy, secure way to make a tax-deductible donation <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=Q1xXH2F2hew6EiIOpwWBr1EytNLevURzGywoY5_I8LHIQTqiZZQh5b1SnZ0&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d94717bd303200c3af9aadd01a5f55080" target="_blank">online</a> or via <a href="http://www.todos-juntos.org/donate.html" target="_blank">check</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Participants at a Nutrition Program Meeting in La Victoria</td></tr>
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We then shared the stories of 14-month-old Eliseo and Elias, twins boys who quickly stole the hearts of the entire Nutrition team at Pop Wuj. Eliseo and Elias, both born prematurely, have spent their lives fighting a myriad of health problems and are both suffering from acute malnutrition. Recently the health of Elias took a scary turn for the worse and he had to be admitted into the hospital. Eliseo's health worsened in turn, due to the stresses of being separated from his mother and brother during their hospital stay. With the help of Pop Wuj's Nutrition Program, and the diligence of their parents, the health of the twins appears to be improving. That said, it will still be a long, hard struggle to support the growth and development of Eliseo and Elias. Read about their story <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PopWujSpanishSchoolGuatemala/posts/10154607516829611">here</a>.<br />
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On the blog, Environmental Projects Coordinator Mary Gramiak delved into the complex question of <i>why</i> malnutrition is so pervasive in Guatemala. In her <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/03/causes-of-malnutrition-in-guatemala.html" target="_blank">post</a> she discussed issues such as the high cost of nutrient-rich food, environmental impacts on agriculture, and systemic discrimination against indigenous populations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A young Participant in La Victoria playing a game of peek-a-boo with his truck</td></tr>
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We were thrilled to share the Nutrition Program success story of Sheily and her mother Doña Eva. With the support of Pop Wuj and the diligence of Doña Eva, Sheily went from being "especially small and fragile" to being happy, healthy, and able to engage in the world with the curiosity expected of an energetic 2-year-old. Read more about Sheily and Doña Eva in our Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PopWujSpanishSchoolGuatemala/photos/pcb.10154628774719611/10154628772049611/?type=3">post</a>.<br />
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Following Mary's blog post about the root causes of malnutrition in Guatemala, I wrote a <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/03/effects-of-malnutrition.html" target="_blank">post</a> about the short-term and long-term effects of malnutrition. When a child experiences malnutrition during their vital years of development they risk stunted growth, weakened immune systems, delays to emotional and cognitive development, and lowered IQs. Within a system that already disproportionately discriminates against indigenous populations, the effects of malnutrition become compounded and cyclical. Our Nutrition Program aims to break these cycles.<br />
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Our "farewell" to Nutrition Month <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PopWujSpanishSchoolGuatemala/posts/10154657500909611">post</a> highlighted the generosity of our donors who supported us throughout March. We are so grateful to you for working with us in our life-changing Nutrition Program. Together, we will be able to help break the interconnected cycles of poverty and malnutrition for many children and their families in the department of Quetzaltenango. That said, we still need to raise about $11,000, or 33% of our annual budget. Although Nutrition Month has come to an end, our work continues, as does our need for continued support. A donation to our Nutrition Program will allow us to continue serving approximately 110 children per month - children like Eliseo, Elias, and Sheily. <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QZFC4LQ7ZH7TE" target="_blank">Donate</a> today!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-90613993891191372622017-04-25T10:02:00.000-06:002017-04-25T10:02:42.480-06:00A Very Feliz Día de la Tierra<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text and photos by Emily Rempel</span><br />
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Happy Earth Day and ¡Feliz Día de la Tierra! Although I'm a few days late with this post, Earth Day is something that Pop Wuj celebrates every day. This year the international campaign for Earth Day was focused on Environment & Climate Literacy.<br />
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"Education is the foundation for progress. We need to build a global citizenry fluent in the concepts of climate change and aware of its unprecedented threat to our planet. We need to empower everyone with the knowledge to inspire action in defence of environmental protection."<br />
- <a href="http://earthday.org/">EarthDay.org</a><br />
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Environmental protection is fundamental to the work of Pop Wuj, as indigenous Guatemalans suffer the brunt of climate change. The problems of disease, poverty, and malnutrition that our communities face are compounded by a lack of safe and clean water flowing through our rivers, nutrient‐rich soils to support crops, and pollution‐free air to breathe. Our communities are also left vulnerable to irregular weather patterns, such as severe storms and late rainy seasons. In addition to the physical importance of environmental protection, the health of the natural world is also paramount to the spiritual health of many indigenous communities.<br />
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At Pop Wuj we work with our communities to help build knowledge of the effects of climate change as well as strategies for combatting it. In our Safe Stove Project we discuss the dangers of burning plastic, including its effects on bodily and environmental health. With every new stove that is built Pop Wuj stresses to the family the importance of not using plastic and other trash as a fuel for cooking.<br />
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We also offer an alternative to burning plastic ‐ recycling! Our recycling program collects plastic, tin, paper, and other recyclable materials from our Spanish School and Family Support Center. We also encourage families in our Safe Stove Project to bring their recycling to the Family Support Center.<br />
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Once we have enough recycling stocked up we head out to the recycling plant. Our last recycling day was in March, and while being a bit impromptu, it was a success nevertheless. Former Environmental Projects Coordinator Mary and I spent the morning repacking all of the recycling (as some of the costales had broken down) and bringing it down into the school. Then, with the help of Carmelina and our Student Coordinator Elizabeth, we packed the many bags of recycling into the back of our rented moving truck and headed out to the recycling plant.<br />
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At the recycling plant the workers compiled our smaller costales into giant bags, which were then attached to a hook and manually held up, so they could be weighed. We were paid a certain price per pound of recycling, depending on the type. For example, the thick plastic medication bottles from our medical programs were worth more than thin plastic drink bottles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Student Coordinator Elizabeth scoping out the grounds</td></tr>
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Any extra money that we receive from the recycling day (after paying for the cost of the moving truck) is invested back into the projects. Unfortunately this day, because we were asked to deal with our recycling before we had saved up enough, we did not make up the loss on the moving truck. Nonetheless, the unfortunate amount of waste that we had generated though the projects will now be repurposed instead of sitting in a landfill or on the side of the road.<br />
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Having the recycling project active at the Family Support Center is another important strategy for supporting "environment and climate literacy." By teaching the Center participants about the principles of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" and the impacts of waste on the environment, we're helping to foster a cultural change in the attitudes and behaviours of the kids in our project and their families. To encourage the kids to continue recycling we held a small prize ceremony. Kids that brought in recycling from their homes during the month of March were able to pick out a fun pencil and eraser set. While the prizes were simple, it helped to reinforce the value of recycling at home as well as in the Center. As you can see by their faces, the kids were very happy to pick out their new writing tools.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teacher Santos begins the recycling prize ceremony</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zulmy brought in the most recycling for the month and was allowed to take the first pick of pencils and erasers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonathan choosing his prize</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemeri's turn!</td></tr>
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With the rainy season shortly approaching, we will also be starting our reforestation project soon. Our Pop Wuj environmental projects, while simple, help to create cultural change around how we interact with our environment. By promoting recycling, disseminating information about the dangers of the common practice of burning plastic, and working towards reforestation, we can help make small improvements in the health of our world.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Emily Rempel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photos by Elizabeth Barnes</span><br />
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The start of 2017 presented us with a bit of an unexpected
speed bump for the Family Support Center. In 2016 the Center had operated in
the community center Ixcanul Noj in Llanos del Pinal, with snacks and meals
being served in the home of Doña Delfina. However in January of this year we were told that Pop Wuj would be required to pay a large monthly amount to rent the space. This fee would have been unsustainable for Pop
Wuj so unfortunately we were tasked with finding a new location in Llanos del Pinal.<br />
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Over the course of January and well into February Carmen and Family Support Center staff and participants did
extensive leg-work to find us a suitable new location, one that would be
within-budget but still have all of the requirements necessary to be an
effective space. Finally, on February 20<sup>th</sup>, we signed the papers for
our new location. The following week included a huge <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/02/moving-day-at-family-support-center.html" target="_blank">moving day</a> and many, many
hours of dedicated work from the Family Support Center and Pop Wuj staff and volunteers to get
the project up and running. On February 27<sup>th</sup> we were finally able
to re-open the doors to the Family Support Center. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The minute the doors opened, the FSC kids came running through to explore their new home. Our new Center is located behind a store, just a short walk from the local school where many of the students spend their mornings. The space has a large cement courtyard (which is regularly used for energetic soccer games), two classrooms, and a kitchen/dining room. When Carmen asked the kids if they were happy with the new location, she was met by a resounding "¡Sí!" and lots of smiles.<br />
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Another exciting addition to the Family Support Center is our new chef, Kevin Jimenez. Kevin has been preparing healthy and delicious hot lunches and snacks for the kids. During our first meeting with the mothers of the Family Support Center several of them shared that their children had given Kevin rave reviews! Moving forward, Kevin and Carmen will be trying to buy as much produce for the Center as possible from the mothers themselves. Not only will this provide the kids with fresher vegetables, but it offers another way for the Center to support the families of Llanos del Pinal (and vice versa)!</div>
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Our older group of students, the <i>mayores</i>, are being taught by FSC director Shaaron. Not only is Shaaron teaching while acting as Director, but she is also working on her Masters degree. T<span style="font-size: 12pt;">he younger group of school-age students, the <i>medianos</i>, are still being taught by Santos, who, like Shaaron, is also pursuing post-secondary education. Our youngest group of kids stay at the Center all day, as they are too young for school. They are cared for by Doña Silvia and Angelica. Angelica is also attending university, but still working with the kids whenever possible. We are so proud of our dedicated, passionate, and hard-working staff! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Center has been up and running strong for just over a month now. On March 8th, to mark International Women's Day, Shaaron and Santos planned some fun activities for the kids. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of the most popular was a game with balloons, where partners had to hold a balloon between their heads and race from one end of the courtyard and back without dropping their it. The message shared with the kids at the end of the activities was that girls can do anything that boys can do! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We also celebrated World Water Day on March 22nd. The kids learned about waste water, the importance of boiling water before consuming it, and how they can help to keep our waters clean and safe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Although 2017 started off slowly and (very) stressfully, we're so excited to be back on track, providing 25 kids from Llanos del Pinal with a safe space to grow, play, and learn. Thank you all for your continued support of our project! </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-23517462592105663472017-03-28T12:29:00.002-06:002017-04-01T20:14:59.974-06:00Tom's Visit, Part 1: A Guatemalan Thanksgiving<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Text by Tom Kemple</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tom Kemple is a
sociology professor at the University of British Columbia and a long-term
friend of Pop Wuj. With his colleague Sylvia Berryman in Philosophy, he has
been bringing groups of students to study in Guatemala since the summer of
2010. This past November and December he spent 5 weeks studying Spanish,
building stoves, helping out in the Pop Wuj Clinic and Nutrition Program, and having
fun at the Family Support Center. What follows are some writings from
his trip created in the course of his research project on university fieldshools and study abroad
programs, titled “Global Citizenship at Home and Abroad.” We hope you enjoy Tom's stories and </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">insights </span></span></i> as much as we enjoyed having him back at Pop Wuj.</span></span></i><br />
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<![endif]-->Dr. Herman, Nurse Luby, and I arrived around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday (American Thanksgiving) by microbus in Llano del Pinal, the indigenous village near Xela that I’ve been visiting a few times a week to build safe stoves or to play with the kids in the Family Support Centre. I had been talking about my experiences in this village with my teachers in Spanish classes, and reading about its fascinating history in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Greg+Grandin%E2%80%99s+The+Blood+of+Guatemala%3A+A+History+of+Race+and+Nation" target="_blank">Greg Grandin’s <u>The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation</u></a>. Some of the fist massacres in the early years of the conquest took place here; communal land was commodified and divided up into plots among families during the liberal reforms of the late 19th century; and it was a centre of resistance in the early 1950s when a leader from this community, an illiterate peasant named Valentin Coyoy Cruz, was murdered, probably by the indigenous elites from the city who were against the radical agrarian reforms of the socialist-leaning government.<br />
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To an outsider like me the village seems quiet, poor, and friendly, and yet it also holds answers to many of the questions I brought with me to Guatemala. I have been learning about how the problems which are most evident here – extreme poverty, precarious health, ignorance, adolescent pregnancy, and chronic malnutrition – have their roots in both the recent and the distant past. <br />
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I had volunteered to help out with Pop Wuj’s Nutrition Program for children under 3 years of age. When Luby asked me whether I was a doctor or a medical student, as are most gringos at the school these days, I told her ‘Doctor de Sociologia.’ When I later made the same joke to Carmen, who oversees all the social projects, she also laughed: “Then give me a pill for a good society, please!"<br />
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It seemed incredible that all the boxes we were unloading were just for our day’s work, and I was ever more surprised when we started pulling computers and wires out of them. Dr. Herman led me to a room filled with women and children (the mother and little girl whose stove we were building yesterday smiled shyly at me as we passed) and then explained our first task: help the mothers place their babies in the white sheet under the scale while he checked their weight, and then hold their heads still on the table while he measured their height and called out the numbers to Victoria behind the laptop at the end of the table. This part of the morning was the most overwhelming: kids are adorable at any age (and often annoying!), but passing these 24 little lives through our hands was heartwrenching. Most were under 2, and several just a few months old; some peered sweetly and trustingly at us as we lowered them gently into the sheet or stretched them out onto the table; others put up a fight, cried out in fear, gave us a suspicious look, or stared at us angrily. <br />
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For each child under 2 we also took a cranium measurement (perimetro cefálico), which reminded me of the anthropometric practice of western ethnologists among so-called ‘savages’ in the late 19th century. Even the most resistant babies calmed down for this part, and yet it still seemed cruel to fit these tiny human beings in their first years of life into a numerical grid of weights and measures — ‘estatura’/‘edad’/‘peso’/‘genero’ (height/age/weight/gender). Dr. Herman lightened the mood with the occasional laugh at a struggling child, a few kind instructions to the mother, or a casual remark to me about a child who was especially tiny or large. As they looked up at us as if to pose a question or issue a command, I could hardly concentrate on the numbers being recorded in the computer (ranging from around 13.99pds and 63cm to 22.51plds and 81cm, as I later noted). When I described these experiences over email to my colleague Sylvia, she pointed out to me that this commitment to record keeping is not just a bureaucratic protocol done for its own sake, but also a way of showing care, not cutting corners, and respectfully enacting a basic right.<br />
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As we moved to the computers in the room across the corridor, I mused to myself that in a sense our next task would involve flattening out each of these vulnerable bodies onto a two-dimensional graph. Dr. Herman patiently instructed me on how to navigate between the plastic charts plotting standard deviations and the data just entered into the computer (translated into English according the program that the <a href="https://timmyglobalhealth.org/" target="_blank">Timmy Global Health</a> shares with Pop Wuj, and using a mix of both metric and standard measures). Meanwhile, the mothers and their children played together on a finger-painting project and listened to Carmen speak about the importance of nutrition, all to the tune of a Brahms waltz blasting from a pair of speakers behind us.<br />
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Our final task was to note any changes in height and weight from last month’s visit, which Dr. Herman used for his diagnoses and prescriptions, and which I dutiful<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ly entered into the computer. As the babies in front of us laughed, cried, and played with their mothers in <span class="st">Quiché </span>and Spanish, I conjured up a picture of them being ‘institutionally captured’ (in my sociological jargon) by a medical system projecting out from our computer screens and communicating to us in English. But I could also see that the Nutrition Program included an important educational component, a ritual element of play and socialization, and even a kind of musical therapy. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://pop-wuj.org/medical-spanish/medical-spanish.html" target="_blank">Medical Spanish Program</a> students do a check-up with Jesler Juanito and his mother Doña Victoria in La Victoria in February. Jesler Juanito suffered a serious health setback last year with an outbreak of rotavirus and has made excellent proress since then. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Photo by Emily Rempel)</span><br />
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The diagnoses were alarming and sad, nearly all falling into the ‘Stunting’ classification (‘chronic’ or ‘severe’); most suffering from ‘Malnutrition’ (many ‘chronic’, several ‘severe'); and a few ‘Underweight’ (‘chronic’) as well. At Dr Herman’s seminar a couple weeks later, I found out that 100% of the families in Llanos who benefit from the Nutrition Program live in ‘extreme poverty’, officially defined as living under a dollar per person per day. (50% of Guatemalan children are malnourished, and 1.2 to 3.6% of these are acutely malnourished).<br />
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Nearly every prescription followed a similar pattern, varying according to severity and age: NutriButter™ supplement 3 packs everyday for 21 days (I later learned that the other supplements, Plumpy Nut and Maní, were out of stock that day); 23 mg pills of Zinc Oxide once a day for 21 days; Incaparina everyday (a thick drink that tastes like corn, served warm to everyone that morning with a banana as a snack). This data then made its way to Nurse Luby’s laptop at the table next to us, where several girls from the community filled the packages for the mothers to take home. With still more work to do, Dr. Herman went on to call out the numbers of patients (written on the back of their hands) for additional consultations, beginning with the twin boys who had arrived late with their beautiful mother, one large and lively the other thin and lethargic, followed by several children with colds, stomach aches, and other intestinal ailments (7 in all). In Dr. Herman’s seminar a few weeks later, I was cheered to learn how the Nutrition Program improves the weight and height of most of the children who participate in it, and prevents acute malnutrition in all of them. <br />
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As I rode back with Carmen to the school for my 2 p.m. Spanish class, I thought about the irony that today was American Thanksgiving, which I remember from my childhood as a day spent among family, overeating to my heart’s content. A morning of weighing and measuring malnourished babies and prescribing Nutri Butter™ and Incaparina to indigenous families seemed worlds away from stories of Pilgrims and Indians eating turkey. That evening I went as usual to the weekly dinner at the school, a potluck featuring a huge variety of delicious dishes, with dessert. Sharing a sumptuous meal with teachers, students, and friends of the school made me feel especially thankful to be here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-53585584722074783442017-03-23T08:30:00.000-06:002017-03-26T12:17:23.795-06:00Effects of Malnutrition<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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<i>Throughout March, Pop Wuj is spotlighting our Nutrition Program and its mission to create lifelong opportunities for Guatemalans via treatment of early childhood malnutrition.</i><br />
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<i>¡Gracias por su apoyo! Thank you for your support!</i><br />
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If you were to ask one of our many doctors or medical students about the impacts of malnutrition, you would likely receive a flood of information about z-scores, development markers, and a whole slew of acronyms that, if you’re like me, you’d have to Google. I, obviously, am not a doctor, nor a medical student, nor have I even taken a single science class in the last four years. So consider the following a layperson’s explanation of the short-term and long-term impacts of malnutrition, with a bit of a human rights flair.<br />
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In 2015 the international community adopted a set of goals aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. These goals are called the Sustainable Development Goals, or more colloquially, the Global Goals.</div>
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#2 of the Global Goals is: Zero Hunger. By 2030, we have committed to ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture.<br />
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<br />Why is this so important?<br /><br />Globally, 1 in 9 people in the world today are undernourished.[i] Nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under 5 are due to poor nutrition.[ii] Guatemala has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world (at 47%) and the highest rate of child stunting (low height for age) in the Americas, estimated at 47% at birth, 53% at three months of age, and 56% at six months.[iii] Those most severely affected by chronic malnutrition in Guatemala are indigenous women and children. Mary, our Environmental Projects Coordinator, talked about why these numbers are so high and why they affect whom they affect in her latest <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/03/causes-of-malnutrition-in-guatemala.html">blog post</a>. Now we’re going to talk about what these numbers and effects mean.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Conceptual
framework on the relationship between malnutrition, infections and poverty. </span></span></div>
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In the long term:<br />
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Malnutrition remains a significant barrier to sustainable development as it creates a trap from which people cannot easily escape. Its effects are cyclical and permeate through almost all aspects of a person's life. During the first 1000 days of a child’s life, while rapid development is occurring, malnutrition can mean poor outcomes in health, cognitive development, and educational and economic attainment later in life<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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As mentioned several times throughout this blog post, it's vital to remember that barriers to health and education already exist for many indigenous communities, outside of the challenges associated to malnutrition. We see an urbanization of services, systemic discrimination, limited funding, and corruption. These barriers are compounded by malnutrition, and vice-versa. It's all cyclical. For example, research s<span style="font-family: inherit;">hows us that child malnutrition rates are higher for children whose parents have low education levels.<sup><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[xii]</span></sup> </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In our projects we see parents who were themselves malnourished as children, who did not receive an education, who are working in low-paying, labour-intensive jobs, who struggle with poverty every day. The next generation thus grows up in the same circumstances, with the same limits to opportunity, with likely the same outcomes. That's why at Pop Wuj we take a holistic approach in serving these communities. We provide nutritional support for children to aid in physical and mental development. Then later on in these children's lives, we provide scholarships to further support their education. Our medical clinics offer ongoing care, from childhood into adulthood, which may otherwise be inaccessible. In this way, we strive to help families break cycles of poverty and malnutrition.<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We have 17 Global Goals that we are attempting to reach by the year 2030 and we will not get there unless we take a holistic approach to development. Without action on health and nutrition, not only won’t we achieve goals 2 (Zero Hunger) and 3 (Good Health and Well-Being) but we also won’t meet many of the other Goals, from education and gender equality to environmental sustainability and peace and justice. Please, stand in solidarity with our grassroots efforts against child malnutrition. As Mary <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/03/causes-of-malnutrition-in-guatemala.html">mentioned</a>, though our organization may not be able to singlehandedly realize Zero Hunger in Guatemala, we can help make it a reality for some.</div>
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Throughout March, Pop Wuj is spotlighting our Nutrition Program and its mission to create lifelong opportunities for Guatemalans via treatment of early childhood malnutrition.</i><br />
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<li><i>Find more posts in this series <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/search/label/Nutrition%20Program" target="_blank">our blog</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PopWujSpanishSchoolGuatemala/" target="_blank">our Facebook</a></i></li>
<li><i>Read more about <a href="http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=142d77e793bce2d606e40cfd9&id=7e9957272b&e=d50da8b105" target="_blank">our fundraising campaign</a></i></li>
<li><i>Donate <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QZFC4LQ7ZH7TE" target="_blank">to the Nutrition Program</a> via <a href="http://todos-juntos.org/" target="_blank">Foundation Todos Juntos</a></i></li>
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<i>¡Gracias por su apoyo! Thank you for your support!</i><br />
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With one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world, and the single highest rate in the Western Hemisphere, it’s important to address not only treatment but also root causes of malnutrition issues in Guatemala. With an official population of 16.3 million, and estimates ranging closer to 18 million, Guatemala faces a chronic malnutrition rate of about 47 per cent – sixth highest in the world. Within indigenous communities these numbers reach closer to 65.9 per cent, with about 80 per cent of indigenous children suffering from stunting. While there are a multitude of issues contributing to the malnutrition issues throughout the country, some of the main contributors are environmental issues, inappropriate nutrition practices, and poverty. </div>
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">When people think about chronic malnutrition, they often picture starving children in desolate regions. However, this is a misconception which rests on the assumption that malnutrition and starvation are the same thing; when in reality, malnutrition and starvation have very distinct definitions. As opposed to starvation, malnutrition is the inadequate intake of any of the required nutrients, even if someone is receiving an adequate amount of calories throughout the day. In Guatemala the cycle of malnutrition can begin in pregnancy among women who are stunted, obese, or anemic; issues which reflect their own experiences with malnutrition throughout childhood. After birth, infants often receive breast milk which lacks appropriate nutrients, and children under five often do not receive an adequate diversity of nutrients to support their development. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">In a country such as Guatemala, with countrysides often overflowing with vegetables during the rainy season, it can be difficult to understand how malnutrition is such a prevalent problem. However, for the nearly 60 per cent of Guatemalans living in poverty, and the 23 per cent of Guatemalans living in extreme poverty, the cost of vegetables and meat is often too high. Because of this, families often are surviving off a high-calorie, starch-based diet of maize, beans, and rice. These are foods which are cheap, readily available, and can make someone feel full without having to eat a large amount. While poverty and lack of access to a diversity of nutrients accounts for a large portion of this phenomenon, a lack of education surrounding the importance of diversity within diet also contributes to the issue. </span><br />
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Environmentally, changes in climate and reduced crop yields contribute to malnutrition in more ways than one. More than 40 per cent of the country’s labour force relies on the agriculture sector, but climate change has contributed to increased hurricanes, droughts, and decreased crop yields. Over-exploitation of natural resources through slash-and-burn agriculture, illegal deforestation, and mono-cropping are also contributing factors in decreased crop yields, presenting two issues which contribute to malnutrition in the country. The first is that the 40 per cent of the population which relies on agriculture as their primary source of income are not making as much money as they are used to, making diverse, nutrient-rich food, even more difficult to procure. The second is that the nearly 50 per cent of the country who live in rural communities, and rely either on their own crops or the crops of their neighbours for food, are producing less for themselves and for market, forcing them to spread already thin resources even further.<br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Politically, indigenous peoples who are the worst hit by conditions of poverty and malnutrition have been systematically disadvantaged throughout colonization – which makes providing nutrient-rich food to their families even more difficult. Within the last century indigenous peoples have been systematically displaced due to violence, war, and resource scarcity. Throughout the thirty-year civil war which plagued the country, more than one-million primarily indigenous people were displaced from their lands, and tens of thousands more killed. While the civil war officially ended with the Peace Accords of 1996, the democratic transition began in the mid 1980s, right in the midst of the the conflict. The Peace Accords mandated resettlement of displaced populations, integrated programs for human development, sustainable infrastructure and agricultural development, modernization, and an emphasis on the rights of indigenous communities, rights of women, as well as greater social participation. While the intention of the Peace Accords was honourable, implementation has been slow and uneven. Displaced indigenous peoples were resettled onto dry, useless lands in favour of leaving the arable lands for export based crops owned by wealthy landowners or multinational corporations. These lands make agriculture and subsistence farming for individuals and families difficult, further driving malnutrition rates throughout the country. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Malnutrition is a complex issue which can reflect conditions of poverty, systemic oppression, a lack of education, or environmental issues. Throughout Guatemala’s complex history malnutrition rates within indigenous communities have hit nearly crisis levels, costing the country USD 8.4 million everyday in lost productivity, increased hospital costs, and academic setbacks. While nutrition programs like Pop Wuj and others operate throughout the country to try and correct for some of these setbacks in children under five, fundamental change will have to come through large scale initiatives which address the underlying factors driving malnutrition throughout the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Within our own <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/p/health-and-medical-program.html" target="_blank">Nutrition Program</a> at Pop Wuj, we work to address some of these underlying issues by providing education and resources to the participants within our program. This includes the importance of a varied diet, and low-cost ways to incorporate different nutrients into daily life. We also treat malnutrition in as many children as we can so that their families, at least, have a chance of breaking the generational cycle. No single organization can solve the deeply ingrained problem of malnutrition for all of Guatemala. But we can transform individuals, and those changes mean everything to their families.</span><br />
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<i>Sources</i>:<br />
"<a href="http://www1.wfp.org/countries/guatemala" target="_blank">Guatemala</a>," World Food Programme.<br />
"<a href="https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/50-years-and-food-security/our-neighbors-ourselves-guatemala%E2%80%99s-chronic" target="_blank">Our Neighbors, Ourselves: Guatemala’s Chronic Malnutrition Crosses Borders</a>," USAID, 2011.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/health/malnutrition-in-guatemala,3866.html" target="_blank">Recipe for better nutrition in Guatemala: Double challenge: Chronic malnutrition still a problem even as obesity rates rise</a>," Inter-American Development Bank.</div>
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"<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/widespread-childhood-malnutrition-paradox-agriculturally-rich-guatemala/" target="_blank">Widespread childhood malnutrition is a paradox in agriculturally rich Guatemala</a>," PBS, 2014.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: inherit;">It’s been an exciting couple of weeks here at Pop Wuj! After completing the interviews for the incoming stove group, and holding our group meeting the previous weeks, last Wednesday we spent the morning performing La Compra – a morning where we collect and deliver all of the necessary stove materials for the incoming group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With this group we have 11 women and families from the communities of Llanos del Pinal and Xecaracoj, all of whom were present to help with the Compra. For each stove there is 110 bricks, 30 cinder blocks, a stovetop, a chimney, a door, and cement, clay, and sand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">We started by collecting and loading the bricks into the truck, about 1,210 in total. From there we all piled into the back of the truck, a squishy experience to be sure. We then picked up the necessary cinder blocks and sand and headed to the communities in order to distribute the supplies to each home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">This is where the manual labour aspect of the day really jumped into overdrive. In order to unload all of the materials we set up some assembly line and unloaded the bricks four at a time, and the cinder blocks one at a time. Something which was really cool about the unloading process was the community aspect of it, where everyone worked together to achieve the same goal. It was tough though, and if I never carry another bag of cement in my life I think I would be okay with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Something I really appreciated about the Compra was that it gave the participants of the stove program the opportunity to be more involved with the stoves they will be receiving. When the women participate in aspects of the stove building like picking up and delivering supplies it creates a relationship based on teamwork and mutual respect between the participants and the organization. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Working with Pop Wuj has been a really cool experience because in all projects there’s an emphasis on creating collaborative relationships with the surrounding communities, and working together to develop solutions which directly meets the needs of the population without taking a domineering approach. The Compra this past week was an excellent example of the importance of including community members in all aspects of social and development projects. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-59738042987024846582017-02-28T09:28:00.000-06:002017-02-28T19:09:03.458-06:00Moving Day at the Family Support Center<div style="text-align: left;">
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search for a new location, we signed the papers last Monday for our new space and were ready to
start making it our own. On Tuesday a group of volunteers from
Pop Wuj and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/projectpathways/" target="_blank">Pathways</a>, an organization serving adults with developmental disabilities, headed out to the old FSC site in Llanos del Pinal. There we were met
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materials up into the big moving truck. With many hands, and many trips, we
loaded up the benches, cabinets, tables, and chairs. Luckily we had some Tetris
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other odds and ends that all help the FSC run. By the end of it, the truck was
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just about all of the furniture got moved without a hitch, with the exception
of one damaged cabinet. That, we can blame on the age-old problem of "too much cabinet -- not enough doorway." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the time 5 p.m. came around, we were done! A special thanks goes out to all of our little helpers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Thursday
we held a special benefit dinner for our Family Support Center, featuring some
top-notch burritos (which, as co-chef, I say with absolutely no bias) and a
margarita bar. At the dinner, we talked to the students a bit about what the
Family Support Center is, what it offers to the community, and why it's so
important. All proceeds from the night are going to be put towards our Family
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say enough how incredibly excited we are to be starting this new chapter in the
life of our FSC, for it to be able to continue providing its vital services to families in Llanos del Pinal. Thanks for following this journey with us, for
reading about our work, and for supporting our projects. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Interested in helping us with this transition to a new site? Donations through <a href="http://www.todos-juntos.org/donate.html" target="_blank">Foundation Todos Juntos</a> make a tremendous difference!</i></span></div>
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responsibility, there comes a time when the trainees must learn to fly solo.
Sometimes we know exactly when our newly learned skills will be put to the
test, and other times we’re surprised by a pop quiz. For Environmental Projects
Coordinator Mary-Mak and I, last Tuesday was definitely a “pop quiz” kind of day.</div>
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We set out on the Safe Stove Project
just like any other day, our bag of tools in hand, following the lead of our
stove expert, Carmelina (who we’ve lovingly dubbed “La Reina de las Estufas,”
or “Stove Queen”). We would be finishing up the third and final
stage of a stove we’d been building in the home of a truly lovely couple and
their sweet little baby. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">This particular stove project was
memorable for me as it would be the first time I’d gotten to work on the same
stove through all three of its stages.</span></div>
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We had just barely gotten started
with the day’s build when our Stove Queen, Carmelina, was called away on family
business. Of course, not only can Carmelina build a stove faster than anyone
I’ve ever seen, but she’s also a mother.<br />
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And that’s when the training
wheels came off, when the pop quiz was handed out, when we learned to fly solo.
Now, before I indulge myself in any more dramatization, I should probably
clarify that this was definitely not my, or Mary’s, first stove. I’d
participated in about 5 different builds, doing every stage at least once.
Mary-Mak, as our beloved Environmental Projects Coordinator, had completed her
full stove building training, which you may have read about <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/01/como-se-dice-cinder-blocks-en-espanol.html" target="_blank">here</a></span> (if not, check it out!). She had
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Nevertheless, it was still
nerve-wracking to be left reliant on our own understanding of the project…
especially when dealing with materials as unforgiving as cement. This would be
Mary-Mak’s first time leading the project solo, and unfortunately for her, I
was the only other Pop Wuj volunteer there to help. It was also only my second
day as an official intern.</div>
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quickly kicked in, and she </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">was <span style="font-size: 12pt;">able to guide us through the final </span>stage of the </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">stove with only a few minor speed-bumps along the way. We were also helped
along significantly by Señor Sales, the husband and father of the house, who was
wonderfully patient with us and managed to contain most of his laughter at our
masonry struggles. He also rigged up a very effective method of smoothing and
evening out our final layer of cement. All in all, it ended up being a
real team effort, and was an amazing experience to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">be able to work so closely
with the family that will be using this stove for many years to come. Through
lots of broken Spanish, hand gestures, and laughter, we were able
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There’s something really special
about being welcomed into someone’s home, in a space as intimate and vital as
the kitchen. For food lovers like me, the kitchen can really be understood as
the heart of a home. As such, it can’t be stressed enough how important it is
to make sure that a kitchen is as safe, accessible, and functional as possible. To read more about the numerous health concerns associated with unsafe stoves, check out the <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2017/02/talking-indoor-air-pollution.html" target="_blank">last blog post</a> by our Environmental Projects Coordinator. At the end of a building session, when you’re up to your elbows in clay and
cement dust, it’s this knowledge that brings the most satisfaction: these
stoves will undeniably have a tremendous positive impact on the everyday lives
of the families who are using them.</div>
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One of the most exciting moments of the week before last was during a Nutrition Program meeting in Llanos del Pinal, where I was able to give a short presentation on the impacts indoor air pollution have on the lungs of women and children.<br />
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Here at Pop Wuj, we run a <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/p/environmental-program_7819.html" target="_blank">Safe Stove Project</a> which upgrades cook stoves in the Llanos del Pinal region just outside of Xela. These stoves are constructed to reduce the probability of burns, reduce smoke in the kitchen, and reduce the amount of fuel needed by about half. With this presentation, we were able to continue to educate women on the impacts open fire cookstoves have on the health of themselves and their children.<br />
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Many people don't know, but indoor air pollution is one of the leading causes of premature death in the developing world, with World Health Organization estimates ranging around 4 million deaths every year. The indoor air pollution comes almost exclusively from stoves which use open fires, biomass fuels, or coal, and has profound impacts on the health of communities and individuals.<br />
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Indoor air pollution affects children the most, and can lead to low birthweight in infants, pneumonia, atypical lung development, asthma, and tuberculosis. In adults, it contributes to strokes, heart disease, respiratory illnesses, and cancer. For the community, these stoves can pollute the air and their energy inefficiency leads to rapid deforestation. On a day to day basis, the smoke from these stoves contributes to skin and eye irritation and headaches. Of the 3 billion people worldwide who cook over these stoves, many are inhaling the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day. Of course, because women and children spend the most time in these environments, they are disproportionally impacted.<br />
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In the Thursday presentation I was able to talk with a group of women from Llanos del Pinal whose children participate in the malnutrition clinic about the different ways indoor air pollution effects women, children, and babies. In order to illustrate these points we filled three different size jars, small, medium, and large, with water in order to represent the different sized lungs. Then we dropped the same amount of ink into each and watched the ink spread throughout the jar. In the smallest jar, which represented the lungs of a baby, the water was pitch black while in the adult's jar the colour was significantly more diluted. This represented how the effects of indoor air pollution on babies are significantly more profound than the effects in adults. By using the visual demonstration of the jars and the ink we were able to turn a complex topic such as respiratory health into a user-friendly experience for the women involved.<br />
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A really rewarding moment from this presentation came the next day, Friday, when Carmen, Carmelina, and I went out to conduct interviews for the new group of safe stove participants. Before someone can receive a stove we conduct short interviews to identify their needs and overall profile, including number of dependents, level of education, and so on. What was special about these interviews was that we met with many women who had intended the presentation the day before. This was important because we were able to follow through with a lot of women by not only talking about the impacts of indoor air pollution, but actively offering them alternatives to their current cooking situation.<br />
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If you're interested in learning more about the impacts of indoor air pollution in the developing world there are many resources available including this <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/" target="_blank">fact sheet </a> from the United Nations.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-62391921615735782102017-01-23T10:38:00.001-06:002017-01-23T10:38:43.907-06:00"¿Cómo se dice 'cinder blocks' en español?" and other learning curves from the Safe Stove Project<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text and photo by Mary Gramiak</span><br />
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What a wild ride this first week with Pop Wuj has been. After spending the first couple days getting the lay of the land I was able to start working on the Safe Stove Project in full force. This started on Tuesday and Wednesday with half-day excursions to complete one stove and get started on another. After getting a taste on those days, I spent the weekend with a Guatemalan engineer and Spanish teacher named Mynor in another community learning how to build the stoves from start to finish. For those of you who may have never built a stove before, let me explain a little about what that looks like.<br />
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The first phase consists of laying a 90cmx125cm base of cinder blocks, held together by cement. The cement has to be mixed by hand with either a shovel or a spade. While the cement is being mixed two cinder blocks need to be cut in half, and then a third cut into quarters. When I told my dad this his response was "How do you cut the blocks? Do you have a masonry saw?", the short answer to this is no. In order to cut the cinder blocks they have to be chopped in half with one of our two machetes. Before beginning the Safe Stove Project I had never considered just how many uses there are for machetes, I have since learned they can be used for pretty much anything. Once the cement has been mixed and the cinder blocks have been cut we use small trowels to fill the gaps in the blocks and let it sit to dry. This is a very messy process if, like myself, you're not so handy with trowels or cement. There are three layers of cinder blocks in the first layer, and after each layer is completed the first stage of the stove is finished.<br />
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Once the first stage has dried overnight we are free to get started on the second stage. This stage is similar to the first and consists of placing three layers of brick atop the cinder blocks with both clay and cement. This stage is significantly more difficult than the first as both the clay and cement need to be mixed by hand which is a tough job when there's only two people, as was the case over the weekend. Once the clay and have cement have been mixed you can begin laying the bricks on top of the cinder blocks from the day before. When laying the bricks it is important to account for the door at the front and the chimney at the back, but other than that it's pretty straight forward. Upon reflection the hardest part of the work was mixing the clay and cement. It's hard to say how long it took to mix the two pastes because in my head it took 16 hours at least; realistically it probably took more like an hour. Michelle Obama arms here I come.<br />
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The final stage is the most satisfying by far because it's the stage where the stove top and chimney are installed. There is still some cement mixing in this stage, but significantly less which is a nice break. The tricky part in this stage is cutting the hole in the roof in order for the chimney to have somewhere to go. In order to do this you have to climb up a ladder and cut the hole using very rusty tin cutters. As one person is working on that others are busy constructing a ramp within the stove to provide a direction for the smoke, and filling the final layers of brick with clay. Once the chimney has been installed and the bricks have been laid we install the stove top and lay a final layer of cement. From there we set to work levelling the cement, filling any holes, and cleaning the chimney and stove top so it's bright and shiny for the family. You can check out a picture of the final product above.<br />
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Working with Mynor this weekend was challenging it was so cool to be invited into a space as intimate as someone's home. Everyday with Pop Wuj has proved to be an incredible learning experience so far and I'm so eager to see what the next few months have to offer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714460807883663478.post-2500546495224368802016-12-28T09:00:00.000-06:002017-01-17T08:59:11.245-06:00Celebrating Education at the Scholarship Assembly<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text by Elizabeth Barnes and p</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">hotos by Lily Bodinson</span><br />
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The Pop Wuj Scholarship Program is our oldest and biggest project. Founders recruited the first scholarship recipients 25 years ago, a few weeks before Pop Wuj Spanish School opened!<br />
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But the Scholarship Program also maybe the least visible of our projects, as typically only <a href="http://www.entremundos.org/for-volunteers/internship-service.html" target="_blank">interns</a> or students in the <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/volunteer/social-work-program.html" target="_blank">Social Work Spanish Program</a> volunteer at monthly meetings. Also, investment in education is a longer-term project. We wait longer to see results than in, say, the Safe Stove Project.<br />
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Once a year, we dedicate a day to spotlighting the Scholarship Program and celebrating student achievement. In 2016 we invited all 122 students and their families to the school for our Scholarship Assembly on November 30.<br />
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We try to accomplish a lot—checking everyone's health, writing letters, recognizing students, taking photos, and gathering updates.<br />
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First each student checked in at the clinic, where <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/medical-spanish/medical-spanish.html" target="_blank">Medical Spanish Program</a> student volunteers did a quick height/weight check. Anyone needing further medical attention also saw a doctor.<br />
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Upstairs, students started at the letter table to write notes to their padrinos y madrinas (sponsors).</div>
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When all the students had passed through the clinic, everyone convened for a ceremony.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roney Alvarado Gamarro, Director of the Medical Program at Pop Wuj, opens the ceremony by welcoming the students and their families. Family Support Center participant Yadira (bottom right) was not the most attentive.<br />
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The ceremony celebrated the hard work of all our Scholarship Program students. But we set aside time to recognize those who have now completed primary school (8 students), middle school (9), high school (9), or a post-secondary program (1—Dinora).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinora completed her program to be a nurse's assistant this December. We are so proud! You can read more about her accomplishments and Pop Wuj's other post-secondary students (including her brother Gustavo) in the <a href="http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=142d77e793bce2d606e40cfd9&id=c2107d3f1c&e=[UNIQID]" target="_blank">last issue of <i>Solidaridad</i></a>, the Pop Wuj and <a href="http://www.todos-juntos.org/" target="_blank">Foundation Todos Juntos</a> newsletter.</td></tr>
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Ceremony over, we broke out tamales! (None of which lasted long enough to make it into a photo.)</div>
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All day the school was bursting at the seams with people. Amid the chaos, our photographer Lily and visiting volunteer Amy Scheuren rounded up students to take photos on the roof. (Amy is a former Pop Wuj Student Coordinator and current president of <a href="http://www.todos-juntos.org/" target="_blank">Foundation Todos Juntos</a>. We were delighted to have her back for a week!)</div>
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Finally, before leaving, at least one representative from each family checked in with Director of Social Projects Carmen de Alvarado to receive the year's last scholarship payment, discuss any problems, and share plans for 2017. Scholarship sponsors will get the latest news in an update from Amy soon.</div>
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Even though the Scholarship Assembly arguably makes for the most jam-packed, hectic day of the year, it's also a highlight for staff and volunteers. It's a chance to see <i>all </i>of our awesome students and their families and celebrate victories after their hard work!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Astrid and her son Emmanuel pose on the roof. His dad, Gustavo, is a university student. (Gustavo is also featured in <i><a href="http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=142d77e793bce2d606e40cfd9&id=c2107d3f1c&e=[UNIQID]" target="_blank">Solidaridad</a></i>!) Emmanuel is a Family Support Center participant and will start school in 2017.</td></tr>
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¡Felices fiestas a todos! Happy holidays, everyone! Nos vemos en 2017.</div>
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Today we're wrapping up a <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2016/11/hikes-kites-school-vacation-at-fsc-part.html" target="_blank">series</a> of <a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2016/12/bites-frights-school-vacation-at-fsc.html" target="_blank">blog posts</a> showing off recent events at Family Support Center. The participants are all on school vacation, and we've celebrated with special activities.</div>
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On November 10, we threw 2016's final birthday party!</div>
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After completing primary school, students graduate out of the FSC. (They do continue receiving support through Pop Wuj's Scholarship Program, and we invite graduates to join us for certain events like baking pumpkin pie for the Halloween party, the Olympics, and other fun days.)<br />
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This year we have a sixth grader, Maria, who just turned 15. The Director of Social Projects Carmen de Alvarado decided to honor her and Luisa, another FSC participant and scholarship recipient who turned 15. Quinceñaras (girls who turn 15) traditionally have special celebrations on that birthday to mark their transition into womanhood. (We emphasized that there's no rush to stop being kids!)<br />
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Carmen opened with a brief speech of congratulations and invited Doña Delfina, Luisa's grandmother and the FSC cook, to share some advice with Maria and Luisa. Then the girls held a mini dance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luisa and Maria have their quinceñara dance. Although our celebration wasn't fancy, we hope that upholding these traditions helped Maria and Lusa know how much they are loved at the project.</td></tr>
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The younger children waited patiently for the more "grown-up" portion of the party to wrap up. When Maria and Luisa's dance song ended, it was time for piñatas!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At 3 years old, Andrea was our youngest birthday kid at this party. She couldn't be coaxed into having the first shot at the piñata, but after watching some older peers take their turns she changed her mind and went for it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaaron ties Luisa's bandanna. Older kids hit the piñata with their eyes covered!</td></tr>
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Once the ground had been picked clean of every last piece of candy and peanut from our two piñatas, we brought out the cakes.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Returning </span><a href="http://pop-wuj.org/spanish-immersion/spanish-immersion-course.html" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Pop Wuj student</a><span style="text-align: start;"> Alison generously baked those two cakes from scratch, frosted and decorated them, and had them completely ready to go by Thursday morning</span><span style="text-align: start;">. She not only saved us time spent baking them or money spent buying them, but also produced the year's most delicious birthday cakes!</span></div>
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Next up: On November 17, we held the Olympics! We rent a hotel's well-tended, enclosed soccer field in Llanos del Pinal for our games. First, in two groups, the participants presented their gimnasio (synchronized fitness dance routines).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ilcy and Norma can't stop grinning at each other. Because they are in sixth grade, sisters Maria and Norma were leaders of the two gimnasio teams.</td></tr>
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Our first Olympic event was a sack race!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel tears toward the finish line. The sack race was a relay, so on his return Damaris took off in her sack.</td></tr>
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Next we lined up with jump ropes for an over/under, jumping/rolling relay race.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julio vaults over Daniela's jump rope as Equipo Azul looks on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessica runs back to the starting line to tag the next member of her team.</td></tr>
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We took a water, oranges, and tamales break (mostly so that participating adults could catch their breath) and started blowing up balloons for the next event. The object of this game is to pop everyone else's balloon without having the balloon around your own ankle popped.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesly charges forth! She graduated out of the project last year but came back to represent Team Blue.</td></tr>
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Once everyone was wet<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">—¡fútbol!</span></div>
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Afterward, s<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">weaty and breathless, everyone reconvened in the shade to hear the winners announced. Team captains went up to have their points tallied. Equipo Azul took first place!</span><br />
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Equipo Amarillo came in second place!</div>
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Equipos Verde and Rojo got stickers that said, "You're Dynamite!" which are better than some silly medal anyway. I'ts not like Equipo Rojo even <i>wanted </i>to win. (As a certain Student Coordinator privately sulked, Shaaron spoke with the kids about the importance of good sportsmanship.)</div>
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Along with the FSC participants, Pop Wuj staff and volunteers have had so much fun at all these activities. We have the Christmas party next week before the project closes for 2016, and we plan to make the most of that time!</div>
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<a href="http://proyectospopwuj.blogspot.com/2016/11/hikes-kites-school-vacation-at-fsc-part.html%20Done" target="_blank">Last week</a> we started a blog series on the activities we've held in the last month or so at the Family Support Center. Today is the last regular day of the project for 2016. As the kids are enjoying a water balloon fight and afternoon movie in Llanos del Pinal, we're looking back on one of the funnest days of school vacation: Halloween!</div>
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Director of Social Projects Carmen de Alvarado invited some helpers to <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/" target="_blank">Pop Wuj</a> on the morning of October 28 to prepare pumpkin pie for the Halloween party. Older students who aged out of the Family Support Center came from Llanos del Pinal (no easy feat given that unexpectedly, no buses were running that day!), and long-time Pop Wuj volunteer Ashley Aue brought participants from her new project, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/projectpathways/" target="_blank">Pathways</a>, serving adults with developmental disabilities in Xela.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used every part of the pumpkin—the seeds for roasting, the insides for pie, and the shells for jack o'lanterns! (Photo by Marie Barranco, <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/volunteer/social-work-program.html" target="_blank">Pop Wuj Social Work Spanish</a> student)</td></tr>
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That afternoon, with dozens of pies of all sizes baked, we packed up in a hastily rented minibus to head out to the FSC Halloween party.</div>
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First we helped everyone get into their costumes. We had a huge jumble of witches, pirates, zombies, princesses, Spider-Men, vampires, a Little Red Riding Hood, and a butterfly. (Participating adults were a bat, a pirate, and a soccer witch in a jersey and spooky shawl.)<br />
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Costumes on, we gathered in the party room to tell scary stories.</div>
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The kids and Carmen took turns telling scary stories. In Carmen's tale, dogs howled as the dead walked past. She asked the kids over and over, "What did the dogs do?" and over and over, they howled.</div>
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Stories told, we turned the lights back on, had pumpkin pie, and set up trick-or-treating. Kids approached Pop Wuj students in pairs to say either "Trick or Treat!" or "¡Dulce o Truco!"</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wilson and Manuel choose from mini Halloween notebooks offered by <a href="http://pop-wuj.org/medical-spanish/medical-spanish.html" target="_blank">Pop Wuj Medical Spanish</a> student Katrina. Another student, Will, handed out candy at the next trick-or-treating station.</td></tr>
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Halloween is always a blast. After our party on Friday the 28th, the FSC had a few days of vacation for the children to celebrate Día de los Muertos (or Día de Todos los Santos) with their families. Check out our next blog post to see what they've been up to since then!</div>
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