| The
Volunteer in Guatemala Program
offers this outstanding opportunity
for volunteers to assist with
classes of primary students
in a rural, indigenous village.
The school is located in a mountain
village called Buena Vista,
Los Corrales, Cabricán
and the volunteer will have
a unique opportunity to participate
in one of Guatemala's model
bilingual schools. More than
650,000 Guatemalans speak the
Mayan language of Mam as their
first language. In the 16 years
that our partner organization
has worked in Cabricán,
this school has evolved from
an underground, unrecognized
institution into a model for
the entire country.
The project
consists of an Official Rural
Coeducational School named B'E
(meaning ”road”
or “way” in Mam),
which provides education in
two languages: Mam, the language
of the community, and Spanish.
Classes are provided to children
of Mayan culture and heritage,
between 5 and 13 years of age,
including pre-primary and primary
(through grade 6) grades. The
academic year is approximately
10 months, from January to October
of each year. Classes are offered
from 7:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
from Monday through Friday.
The school is located in a
very rural village in Guatemala
and the volunteer will live
with a local family, sharing
with them and eating typical
foods such as tortillas, tamales,
beans, rice, and simple chicken
meals. This Guatemala volunteer
project is located in the department
of Quetzaltenango. It is important
that volunteers speak Spanish
very fluently for this placement
among the rural people of Guatemala
and the country’s natural
beauty, both of its people and
the landscape.
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