Hello. I am at Hotel Finca Tatin in the jungle of Guatemala.
I am on my way to a school with a group of volunteers,
Casa Guatemala which is an organization that works with students
promoting education.
Most of them live at the school,
this is an option for them to get a much better education.
And then go on beyond 6th grade which is most do not.
So, this school goes to 6th grade
but they'll help them get into a high school.
After that we are going to head to hotel backpackers
where we are going to have some lunch
and continue on with our day.
We stayed at hotel backpackers.
And so when they need experience, through that work experience,
they can work at the hotel
like all those kids who were serving us,
most of them came from this school.
A lot of the kids come from in the mountains, very rural areas.
There's a distinct lack of healthcare, food, almost no education.
They don't get very much there basically.
And then when they get here, they get everything they need to thrive.
Every kid who's here with us gets three meals a day
and two snacks a day,
health care, and private education.
Check that out.
The roof of that is made out of a boat.
Every morning the kids have chores to do,
it's kind of like what they would do at home
but slightly easier.
-What's your name? -Romina.
So, they learn how to plant vegetables,
different types of vegetables.
And then cultivate them well, care for them,
and then eventually to eat the produce that as well.
You know, food, so, it's from start to finish
then they know where their food's coming from.
In the forest there's no Wi Fi
but there are always the good connection.
-We're doing a giant photo. -Let's do it.
One, two, three!
there's a giant iguana right... somewhere.
Some, right there.
Giant iguana.
And everyone's welcome back any time you want to come back.
Bye.
See you later.
I'm gonna pass the camera around and everybody is gonna say one word
or a hyphenated word
to describe their feeling of this volunteer project,
that's just kind of how it impacted them.
-I feel blessed. -Enlightening.
-Eye opening. -Humanity.
-Emotional. -Heartwarming.
-Life-changing. -Happy.
-Love.
-Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
-And here we have the Razia.
He's normally found his natural habitat
off the coast of South America.
As you can see.
Get out there, get out there! Run, run!
and that's it for this mini volunteer project.
I hope that you are inspired and that you enjoyed this video.
If you want to learn more about Casa Guatemala,
I'll put a link down in the description below.
They accept short term volunteers, long term volunteers.
So, if this is something that you're interested in
then I would definitely check them out and look into.
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For now, I am going to go, it is starting to rain.
So, I will see you when I see you, bye!
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