I have loved the Cooperativa Spanish School since my 1st visit in 2007. What really makes the school great are the directors and the teachers and their wonderful social projects, but part of the attraction has been the gorgeous garden setting overlooking the lake. With rising lease costs and lack of control, the directors of [...]
I’m so happy and proud to announce in this blog that the Navichoc Pacay family has moved into their brand new home! Here’s the photo we received in 2009 when older daughter Andrea became our very 1st Beca student. The Cooperativa School directors started their Kamoon home building project in 2009 and this is the [...]
I was happy to see these recent videos featuring the completed and future home building projects. The Cooperativa staff has named this project “Kamoon” which is a Tz’utujil Maya word that means “working together to help each other”. Each of these deserving families includes a Beca student: Maria Ujpan Tuch and Andrea Navichoc Pacay. Video [...]
It is with joy in my heart that I pass along the news: the Ujpan Tuch family’s home is complete! I feel so lucky today. Of course I am grateful for my own comfortable home and the love and support of my circle of family and friends, but I am feeling especially fortunate to know [...]
Hello again mis amigos! I recently received photos of the progress on the Ujpan Tuch home and it’s nearly complete! There are 8 in the family and the size of the lot is small – barely larger than the house footprint – so they built 2 stories. You can see from the 2nd and 3rd [...]
On July 16th I visited Florinda and her family. The folks at the Cooperativa Spanish School are hoping to build a new home for them and have currently raised more than $6000 of the roughly $9000 total cost. Here’s a YouTube video you can view about this project. Additional families have been selected and plans [...]
