Another very busy day. We toured the site of the San Antonio preschool and the first, of what we hope will be many more, community gardens. The mothers of sponsored students have helped to put in a community garden that is the experimental project in which they hope to be able to do in other communities.
There is a plan for one on the site of the new preschool in El Barranco which I am very excited about.
We then visited the pottery where a man named Ken Edwards who was a potter from the US migrated to Mexico and started a pottery company. He then trained people in other areas where he found good clay soil to make pottery.
This included San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala. I have several pieces in my Guat home and love them. So some shopping had to be done.
We saw women washing clothes on the rocks in the lake,
a life size Nativity and Alan and Steve sporting their man bags.
Back in a pickup and on to the carpentry trade school where students are taught a skill they can use to make a living and be able to support their families.
After lunch we toured the Mayan Families facility where they not only have all their offices but house the Panajachel preschool and the sewing trade school. Traditionally in Guatemala men have been the sewers since it is a machine!! But now women are being taught to sew and create items they can sell and help support their families. At the end of their training they are given the opportunity to own a sewing machine and start their own cottage industry.
Then one more stove to install for a family in Panajachel so we returned to the carpentry school where the stove parts are stored and loaded the parts and performed another successful stove installation.
We finished just in time to shower and attend the farewell dinner at Sharon and Dwight's home where they show a video of the weeks highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y2pVeA95sg
In the morning we leave for a night in Antigua.
There is a plan for one on the site of the new preschool in El Barranco which I am very excited about.
We then visited the pottery where a man named Ken Edwards who was a potter from the US migrated to Mexico and started a pottery company. He then trained people in other areas where he found good clay soil to make pottery. 
This included San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala. I have several pieces in my Guat home and love them. So some shopping had to be done.
We saw women washing clothes on the rocks in the lake, 
a life size Nativity and Alan and Steve sporting their man bags. 
Back in a pickup and on to the carpentry trade school where students are taught a skill they can use to make a living and be able to support their families.
After lunch we toured the Mayan Families facility where they not only have all their offices but house the Panajachel preschool and the sewing trade school. Traditionally in Guatemala men have been the sewers since it is a machine!! But now women are being taught to sew and create items they can sell and help support their families. At the end of their training they are given the opportunity to own a sewing machine and start their own cottage industry.
Then one more stove to install for a family in Panajachel so we returned to the carpentry school where the stove parts are stored and loaded the parts and performed another successful stove installation. 
We finished just in time to shower and attend the farewell dinner at Sharon and Dwight's home where they show a video of the weeks highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y2pVeA95sg
In the morning we leave for a night in Antigua.
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