Jim & Emily’s Guatemala
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We are Jim and Emily Fanjoy, two Peace Corps volunteers working in a rural Mayan community in the highlands of Guatemala. We arrived in-country in April of 2008 and will be here until August of 2010. Our two-year program is Rural Home Preventive Health. In a nutshell, our job is to teach our villagers the importance of hygiene and sanitation in preventing diseases- before they get sick. Then, we help them to construct sanitary infrastructure such as improved latrines, efficient woodburning stoves, and concrete kitchen floors. But in reality, our job is WAY more complex than that, so to find out more you will have to start reading the blog. Enjoy!
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This is Emily, almost exactly a year ago, in the same place as the first picture: Volcán Pacaya. We’ll have to return again right before the end of our service, to complete the series.