Opal House is a home for the impoverished children of Guatemala. Located high in the mountains of Lake Atitlan is a 59 acre estate of serenity, peace and love. There the children will receive physical, spiritual and educational nourishment. The children will be raised in their native culture, customs and language. Children with good nutrition, education and hope will be able to contribute back to the Guatemalan society as adults. A Christian faith based educational foundation will prepare them for their future. Guatemalan society is in desperate need of leaders for the future after almost 40 years of civil war.
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Opal House is a home for the impoverished children of Guatemala. Located high in the mountains of Lake Atitlan is a 59 acre estate of serenity, peace and love. There the children will receive physical, spiritual and educational nourishment. The children will be raised in their native culture, customs and language. Children with good nutrition, education and hope will be able to contribute back to the Guatemalan society as adults. A Christian faith based educational foundation will prepare them for their future. Guatemalan society is in desperate need of leaders for the future after almost 40 years of civil war.
Tags :Children, Guatemala, Charity

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has concluded a five-day official visit to Guatemala. During her 5-day official visit she met with key government officials and indigenous groups. Pillay, who met with families of people who disappeared during the war and civil society organisations, lauded their efforts at fighting impunity. She urged the government to break from the past and seek to transform the nation into a modern State based on democracy and human rights.
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uzonphoto.com uzonreport.com These are recent crimes. You can still see fear in these faces. Its hard to believe that the genocide in Guatemala happened just over 20 years ago. There are almost no photos of it. Guatemalas tragedy doesnt have the place it merits in the history of infamy perhaps for this reason: there are no photos. Or there arent many, if we take into account the images James Natchwey, Jean-Marie Simon or Alon Reininger, along with a few others, made of Guatemala in the 1970s and 1980s. In any case, what was happening in Guatemala at that time faded into the background of the story of the triumph and eventual electoral defeat of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, or the war in El Salvador. The signing of peace treaties on December 29, 1996 opened a space in Guatemalan society for slowly discovering the sad legacy of 36 years of armed conflict. Less than two years later, on April 26, 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi was murdered two days after presenting a report on the human rights violations that had taken place during the war. These dates opened and shut a particular moment of history in Guatemala, cutting short the debate on the origins of and responsibilities for a conflict that left more than 200000 victims, most of them Mayan. Today, when the dead come from a place that we didnt know existed until a few months ago, its prudent to remember that the Cold War in Latin America was red hot. These photos are dedicated to Guatemalan journalist Ricardo Miranda ...
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Norayda Arabella Ponce Sosa is responsible for EU funding at Guatemalan NGO CONGCOOP. She comments the relations between the EU and civil society from a Latin American perspective at the 4th North-South Development Forum (Brussels, 7 and 8 May 2012), organised by CIDSE. www.cidse.org/forum
Tags :EU, civil, society, international, development, cooperation, cidse, congcoop, norayda, arabella, ponce, sosa

Blueprint Church will be sending 12 individuals (2 High Society Members) to Guatemala to serve with Living Water International. The team will be leaving April 14th. Help support their trip by giving at bit.ly You can also support by purchasing High Society Collective's song "Young Again" from iTunes:t.co
Tags :Guatemala, Mission, Living Water, Blueprint Church, sho baraka, suzy rock

Help Guatemala become a better place. Please comment about any social or political issues you want to address regarding Guatemala.
Tags :Guatemala, Guatemala culture, Guatemalan culture, Central America, Guatemala poverty, Maya, Mayan, El Norte, Guatemala Maya

This video was made by children in Guatemala. The Ministry of Education - Guatemala Government, used it to sensitise the Guatemalan society about the importance of the intercultural and bilingual education, by broadcasting it on the national television.
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Amy Miller Gray's supplementary demo -- a raw version of intrepid tourist effort
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This youth theater company, trained by ArtCorps Artist Cristian Beltrán, has made a name for itself by performing plays about conservation, corruption and other social issues in their own communities and in theater festivals around the country. "Guatemalan society doesn't speak up because of the very problems that exist in our communities. [As actors for social change], we communicate what [our society] is too afraid to say." ~Carlos Soza Monterroso, Youth Leader, ACOFOP, Guatemala
Tags :artcorps, art for social actions, theater, art for social change, Guatemala, ACOFOP, Cristian Beltran, artist, sustainable development, international development, community engagement, youth leadership

Ancient Maya art and temples.
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skate mixco guatemala
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National Geographic Traveler contributing editor Andrew Evans is traveling 10000 miles by bus--from Washington DC to Antarctica. In this leg of his journey, he rides along with the locals in Guatemala. Keep up with Andrew's journey on Twitter @Bus2Antarctica ( www.twitter.com ), read his blogs ( blogs.nationalgeographic.com ) and learn more about his journey here ( travel.nationalgeographic.com ).
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A trailer created to promote the Luke Society's promotional documentary Touching Lives in Jesus' Name. The documentary brings to life the global medical mission work of their organization. The Luke Society supports indigenous physicians with a vision to serve communities through holistic preventative medicine. View the documentary at www.touchinglivesinjesusname.com.
Tags :medical, mission, work, Christian, Indigenous, preventative, holistic, Ghana, Guatemala, Patzun, San, Pedro, Kasei, Sioux, Falls, documentary, medicine, community, health, Jesus

Read the transcript: to.pbs.org In rural Guatemala, it is not unusual for women to have as many as 10 children, beginning in their teens and continuing into their 40s. That can take a big physical toll on mothers. Ray Suarez reports on the cultural, religious and logistical obstacles tied to teaching women about using birth control in a traditional society.
Tags :PBS newshour, Guatemala, Women, Health, Gender

May 2011 Compassion Fruit Society began construction of the eco-sustainable Project Somos Children's Village near Tecpan, Guatemala. The Village will become the forever home to orphaned and abandoned children. The homes are being constructed using earth-bag construction. Each home will have a professionally trained Guatemalan foster mother raising up to seven children.
Tags :Project Somos, Children's Village, Guatemala, orphans, abandoned children, volunteering, Tecpán, earth-bag, earthbag construction, eco-bricks, eco-ladrillos, Compassion Fruit Society

a video we made for our LNS project about Kaqchikel language of Guatemala and its vitality.
Tags :kaqchikel, guatemala, language, sociolinguistics, linguistics, GIAL

La Patria Marching Band is Coreography Champion 2006 in Guatemala of the Latin American Marching Band Society
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Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala, committed two sins in the eyes of the Eisenhower administration. First, when he opened the system to all political parties he recognized the Communists too. Arbenz also embarked on a massive land reform program. Less than 3 per cent of the land owners held more than 70 per cent of the land. So Arbenz nationalized more than 1 ½ million acres, including land owned by his own family and turned it over to peasants. Much of that land belonged to the United Fruit Company, the giant American firm that was intent on keeping Guatemala, quite literally, a banana republic. United Fruit appealed to its close friends in Washington, including the Dulles brothers, who said that Arbenz was openly playing the Communist game. He had to go. The National Security Act of 47 gave us the National Security Council. Never have we had a National Security Council so concerned about the nations security that were always looking for threats and looking how to orchestrate our society to oppose those threats. National Security was invented, almost, in 1947, and now it has become the prime mover of everything we do as measured against something we invented in 1947." -- US Navy Admiral Gene La Rocque in PBS Documentary "The Secret Government"
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Bueno banda, pues la pari mas grande en la historia del PSY-TRANCE en Guatemala esta por escribirse y ésta se viene con TODO, asi que desde ya, comienzen a apretar los tornillos del cerebro, y esten preparados para cualquier cosa. (VIDEO NO. I)
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