This is for a group from age 10 to age 80. It contains general aspects of the culture and lifestyle of indigenous Mayans in Guatemala plus specifics of volunteering with the non-profit Long Way Home.

2. San Juan Comalapa Dept. of Chimaltenango San Juan Comalapa population 39,000 View of Comalapa

3. Clustered city surrounded by small farming plots

4. Traditional traje, machete and hoe, “azidon”

5. Wood-burning stove, multi-generational compounds

6. Children all work

7. Market Day is Tues. Friday Sunday

8. Community Pila

9. Weaving is a major industry

11. What are Indigenous Peoples?

12. People who have the oldest historic connection to a place The “originals” (like ab originals) Mayans have lived off the land of Guatemala for over 1100 years. Have evidence of decline of Mayan civilization in 900. Comalapa was settled back to 1520. The Spanish conquered Petén in 1697.

13. 5% of the world population are considered indigenous yet 15% of the world’s poor are indigenous. Indigenous people are over-represented in the group of the “world’s poor.” In Comalapa, the indigenous Kaq’chikel are 95% of the population Indigenous people are an important group of rural poor.

14. Indigenous people constitute an important group of rural poor. In Guatemala some 86.6% of the indigenous people are poor. 44% of population in Guatemala are indigenous people

15. Why are we in Guatemala?? “ the global poor, if only they had been born into different social circumstances, would be just as able and likely to lead healthy, happy and productive lives as the rest of us.” The root cause of their suffering is their abysmal social starting position, which does not give them much of a chance to become anything but poor, vulnerable and dependent — unable to give their children a better start than they had had themselves. -Thomas Pogge, Ass. Professor of Philosophy, Columbia U

16. Statistics U S A Facts taken from the Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Life Cycle Median age: 36.7 years Median age: 19.2 years School Life Expectancy total: 16 years male: 15 years female: 16 years (2006) total: 10 years male: 11 years female: 10 years (2006) Gross National Income per capita $41,950 $4,410 Literacy 99% 99% male 99% female 56% 63% male 49% female Population below poverty line 12% 56% Expenditures on education 5.3% of GDP (2005) 2.6% of GDP (2006) Guatemala

18. Ericka Temple, Architect Adam Howland, Project Mgr. Liz Howland Not shown: Andy Case, Webmaster Rebecca Sanchez, Volunteer Coordinator Aaron Colvin, Assistant Project Mgr. Matt Paneitz, Executive Director, Founder LWH

19. Parque Chimiyá

20. Parque Chimiya, basketball court, soccer field, organic gardens, public park open dawn to dusk

21. Reforestation Program: 37,000 trees planted in four years 1,182 hours of work

22. Typical method of trash disposal

25. Raw materials

26. Tires are collected from Chimaltenango, 30 miles away

28. Excavation

29. Rafael works on a tire for the vocational school.

30. Adam and the crew fill tires with earth.

31. Foundation is filled with gravel and earth-filled tires

32. Crew filling top tier of tires School taking shape

33. Volunteer bringing concrete to roof November 2009 February 2010 Finished interior-no tires in sight

34. Roof has a drainage system that diverts water to a cistern.

35. Volunteer fills a liter bottle with earth to make a brick . Earth-filled and litter-filled liter bottles form the structure for building.

36. Earth-filled and litter-filled liter bottles form the structure for building.

37. Bottles filled with litter are the basis for this structure which became a community library.

38. http://catorcekt.wordpress.com/ http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOouXAC42c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SvZ_8Tq8Jo

39. 350 interns and volunteers since 2004 We believe that in order to break the cycle of poverty people need to know that it exists.

41. Security