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Long Way Home is a non-profit organization originating in the United States that
seeks to bring together resources to empower youth to realize their full
potential by fostering civic interaction, creating educational opportunities and
encouraging healthy lifestyles through extracurricular activities. Our current
project has us in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, working with the Guatemalan Maya
to construct an ecological park and recreation center.
Long Way Home is comprised of employees, interns, and volunteers who have been
trained to work in the specific geographical, cultural, and political climate of
the mountainous highlands of central Guatemala. The diversity of the Long Way
Home staff provides a variety of necessary skills: permaculture and horticulture
techniques, appropriate technology, spanish and Mayan languages, water
treatment, and teaching. The organization offers a volunteer program and
internships.
Long Way Home is a small organization that emphasizes long-term development and
self-sustaining growth through a joint effort of Long Way Home, which helps
initiate and finance projects, and local groups, which maintain and sustain the
projects over time. The group chooses projects that not only benefits particular
communities but that can be completed in efficiently and cost-effectively in
regards to time, funds, and natural resources. |
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