St. Luke's is again conducting two return construction mission trips to Guatemala. The Week 1 trip is from March 16 to March 25, 2012, and the Week 2 trip is from March 23 to April 1, 2012. The work will be centered in Lemoa in the department of Quiché near the highland center of Chichicastenango. Our previous construction mission trips were in March, 2005, March, 2006, March, 2007, March, 2008, March, 200, March, 2010 and March, 2011. Most of the population there is indigenous Mayan. Lemoa was especially hard-hit by massacres and destruction of villages during the years of "La Violencia", guerrilla rebellion and army repression which ended just recently in 1996. We will be working with local people to construct a concrete block school in Lemoa (to replace an existing school built of cornstalks), building chicken coops to help widows earn extra income, and will also be spending time with children in Bible school programs. We may also do some work at the orphanage across the street. We will also spend time at the John Wesley School in nearby Santa Cruz del Quiché. Look here and here for the itinerary. See puravida.org for more details about Lemoa.
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