By Amanda Mallory | Development Director
We've started our school year in January and registered more students than ever. With 175 bright minds enrolled in education for sustainable development at Hero School, our 28 teachers are busy! Our work to enhance curriculum presses on with our internal team, consultations from education experts in Guatemala, and support from you as our financial backbone. While our STEM is enriched with composting and green building projects, our cultural aspects are filled with painting, performance, marimba, and Kaqchikel.
So far we've had an incredible 15 individual volunteers in 2024 and two service here to learn green building. Along with the local green building team they have worked to complete and progress on many projects. Many of our volunteers in the last 6 months have contributed to a tire retention wall that we're happy to say is now finished and prepared to endure the incoming rainy season and support a family home on the side of a hill!
Another community build is completed, providing two families in Paxa area of San Juan Comalapan with improved stoves. Thanks to the help of a service group of 7 women these stoves are more efficient in fule consumption and have a chimeny to vent air out of the home and improve respratory contidions for families. Focusing directly on our campus, we are also significantly further on the teachers lounge, bodegas, and school office. As those are coming to a wrap we're begining to focus on what will be our Green Building Academy project.
The next Green Building Workshop is coming up quickly in April. In this awesome colaboration we'll have Phill Basehart of EcoHab joining us as an instructor and journeying out to the quaint farming village of Agua Calientes to help build a school. Not too far out side of Comalapa, we'll be building this structure start to finish while teaching international and local participants the principles of green building. Check out the link below to see a cool video made by Kate during our last Green Building Workshop!
If you want to start planing a trip to the Long Way Home project site for you or your group message us and we can get you ready.
For all that you share with us, thank you! Gracias! Matyox!
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