This is a PPT with less info than the BU Geography PPT> It was used for a younger group, teens interested in volunteering with 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. 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.

12. 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

13. Indigenous people are an important group of rural poor. 44% of Guatemalan population are indigenous, 50% of them are Mayan Received Nobel Peace Prize 1992 Wrote autobiography “ I, Rigoberta Menchu ” Yet do not make a strong political force. The single indigenous candidate, Rigoberta Mench ú , received only 3% of the vote in 2008 national presidential election.

14. 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

17. 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

18. Parque Chimiyá

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

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

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

22. Typical method of trash disposal

26. Raw materials

27. Tires are collected from Chimaltenango, 30 miles away

29. Excavation

30. Adam and the crew fill tires with earth.

31. Foundation in one week, January 2009

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

33. Crew filling top tier of tires School taking shape

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

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

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

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

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

41. Feliciano, Clara and their three children in front of Hotel Comalapa Sol Past volunteer, Rafael Lindau

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

43. Beneficiaries Rafael pounds dirt into tires in the foundation of the water tank.

44. LWH volunteers and the local community teamed together with the Minnesota chapter of Engineers Without Borders to construct a 67,000 gallon water harvesting system for the town of Simajuleu.

45. Beneficiaries of the water tank. It will help 5000 people have better access to water.

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

49. 350 interns and volunteers since 2004 We believe that in order to break the cycle of poverty people need to know that it exists.

51. Security