In January the Rotary Club Guatemala Sur hosted 24 Rotarians from Illinois who came to Guatemala to build a library building, computer tables and bunk beds for Ak´ Tenamit.
My daughter Nicole wanted to volunteer and I decided to go along and help.
We sailed our boat down the Golfete to Rio Dulce, left it at anchor in a cove in the jungle, and took the dinghy up the Tatín river to the project. We met our fellow Rotarians at Ak´ Tenamit and helped them with the work and communication with the local workers.
We all had a great time and enjoyed the exotic setting of the jungle rivers and the friendly indigenous people living there.
Ak´Tenamit is home to 500 students from more than 100 impoverished villages and depends on donations for feeding, clothing and educating the students.
To know more about this wonderful humanitarian project, please follow this URL to their website: http://aktenamit.org/
Rotary Guatemala Sur has always been a strong supporter of Ak´Tenamit, so our Club President Juan Carlos Cheves, Ignacio Valls and I decided to organize a fund raiser consisting in a motorcycle ride across the American continent, from Washington, D.C. to Seattle, WA, visiting Rotary clubs on the way to raise funds and inviting fellow motorcycling Rotarians to join the ride.
The departure is set for June 2010. There is lots of work to do, but we will manage!
Watch this fascinating video on Ak´Tenamit!
Jean Feb 4, 2010
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