Below is the new text logo for the volunteer T-shirt that I designed in Adobe Illustrator, based on the design of Quiché’s own soda company: India Quiché (desde 1926!). There isn’t enough Quiché pride, so a t-shirt should do the trick nicely!

Click here to see the design. The original Illustrator (.ai) file can be found here, as well as the larger version of the linked .png file

Taking advantage of the fast internet available to us in Antigua, I decided to upload all of our vacation pictures from 2010. Don’t worry, we’ve been working as well. The organization we’ve been collaborating with provided us with a couple of DVDs of images that I conveniently left back in our site. I’ll upload those in the next few weeks*, or as our slow internet where we live dictates. We’ve been without a camera since early 2010 up until a couple of weeks ago, so having a record of our work during that time is quite a relief.

*Edit – April 27th: Please see the back-dated post here to read and view what work we’ve been doing over the past couple of months. If you’re on the main page, see the post before this one.

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Our camera broke!

Alright so our camera is broken, does that mean we can’t write? Well it kind of takes the fun out of it for you all. I’ll try to give you an idea of what we have been doing the past couple of months, which have actually been busy, without boring you to death with giant walls of text.

I believe that you all know that we began giving hygiene talks at the end of January in a new community. We work in the school with the kids and their parents. They are very participatory and the director of the school is very supportive of our work (she quizzes the kids and the moms and dads afterward!). Working there has been something that we really look forward to doing.

February was a whirlwind for us. In addition to the new community and other commitments that we had with the health center, we collaborated with the NGO (non-governmental organization) Water for People. For the last two to three years, they have been doing health education trainings with the teachers in selected schools and, in some of those schools, building hygienic installations like latrines, hand-washing stations, and water deposits. They plan to expand their work beyond the schools to work with entire communities, but first, they had to get an idea of the communities with the greatest need. Obviously every one of the nearly 70 communities could benefit from the work that they do, BUT you have to begin somewhere.

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