Santa Rita

On Friday afternoon we traveled about 40 minutes outside of Xela to the small town of Santa Rita. It's a town filled with corn fields, as most Guatemalan towns are. There we were introduced to two important parts of the town, one old and one new: the Puesto de Salud (place of health), the local women's health clinic that has been around for many years; and the new, several-months-old young women's group, which meets twice a week and has members ranging in age from 13 to 20+. The girls were mostly shy, but opened up a bit when showing us pictures of their town that they had taken themselves for a group project. It was an eye-opening experience in many ways, but I think it is an excellent project and will ultimately greatly benefit the young women of the town. In fact, some of us will be working with the group for our volunteer projects when those begin in 4 more weeks.

Cornfields and mountains in Santa Rita

Road through the corn

House within the corn

Me and the corn