Follow our blog during the 2016 BTS delegation and hear updates from participants during their two weeks in Guatemala. The 2016 BTS delegation members in Guatemala City. Sunday, May 1 Kaleigh Kingsbury As we arrived to Guatemala I felt a warm embrace. The love and energy that [...]
Breaking the Silence “Alumni” Delegation to Guatemala – Deepening and Strengthening Relationships 2015 BTS delegates at the 2014 International Women's Day March in Guatemala City. In March 2015, a delegation of 15 BTS members will explore history, human rights and social justice in Guatemala. For the group, all [...]
Jesus Tecu and Isabel Osorio. For more than 10 years, the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Solidarity Network has had a relationship with Jesus Tecu Osorio and Isabel Osorio de Tecu and their family, in particular through the International Youth Internship Program as the network placed close to [...]
Isabel with 5 of her 8 children at their home in Pacux, Rabinal. Isabel was eleven years-old on March 13, 1982 when her grandmother Juliana Chen, 50, died at Pak’oxom with her one-year old sister, as well as several cousins and aunts. Isabel was in the nearby [...]
From March 6-March 16, 11 members of the 2014 BTS Delegation traveled throughout Guatemala to meet with partners and learn about struggles of the past and present. As we began the delegation in Guatemala City, we began by learning about the long struggle for justice, and also the struggle to [...]
BTS delegates and their host families in Chimaltenango. From October 20 - November 2, the 2013 BTS delegation toured Guatemala to meet with Breaking the Silence partners. This included organizations and communities in Chimaltenago, San Lucas Toliman, Rabinal, Rio Negro, Santa Rosa and Guatemala City. Read more about [...]
Our day began with a small earthquake at 4:30 am. A reminder of the sheer power of the earth. We spent the night on mattresses on the floor at the Rio Negro Historical and Educational Centre. Many of us were ready to get up to begin the 6 am hike [...]
On Thursday, we visited the Foundation of New Hope school on the outskirts of Rabinal. It represents one of the few examples of an educational institution that tries to reflect an alternative path to development based on the needs of the poor and primarily indigenous families who represent the survivors [...]
En route to Rabinal. Drove north, then east, then west and north again through acres of green landscape and vegetation which went from relatively lush vegetation to increasingly more grassland/shrub, then trees. View from the road en route to Rabinal. Just outside Rabinal at Qatchuu Aloom (Mother Earth) [...]
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keeping-the-hope-alive Keeping the Hope Alive - Filling a gap in education for Maya Achi youth For the last fifteen years, the Fundación Nueva Esperanza/New Hope Foundation has been working at the grassroots level in Rabinal, Guatemala, to provide high school education to Maya Achi youth whose families were affected by [...]
