By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
Recently we held the election for the Pájaro de Fuego Mayan queen with different Nahual characters in Guatemala. This is Mayan folklore where human beings have the power to transform either spiritually or physically into animal form, most commonly jaguar and puma but also others such as donkeys, birds, dogs or coyotes. The children’s teachers worked extremely hard to get their costumes ready and a beautiful stage back-drop for the event.
With the coronation of the Queen, we were proud to welcome Itzapa's Rumi'al Qatinamit, elected Mayan representatives, to undertake the ceremony. The elected students hold their posts for one year, representing the school.
We are into the final month of classes, followed by exams and graduations in October. Sadly we have to move the school playground so we will be investing in a small construction effort over the next few months to have the new playground ready for the start of 2018. All donations to this page will go towards teachers' salaries and school materials, as well as the new playground which we are budgeting $2,000 for so thank you so much in advance.
Cheers
By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
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