Guatemala Part 2

My primary activity was helping to build a block house for a widow, Thomasa, and her family (six children and two parents). You can see the home they have been living in the background on the left and the nearly completed replacement on the right.


Here is a group shot of the building team on the left and Thomasa and three of her children inside their old home weaving, their primary means of income, on the right.



One of the most amazing things was to see how hard the family worked. The girls, who think were about 10 and 12 carried wheel-barrow load after load of sand. Here is Thomasa's mother carrying one of many loads of blocks to the job site.