We left Panajachel early in the morning with our pickup loaded with 63 humungous banana plants. These plants were bought by the Bowen Island brownies and will be given to the 59 students in grade 2 in Chuk Muk. We also had 3 papaya plants.
#577 Susana’s family received a papaya and a banana plant
#1972 Luisa’s family received a papaya and banana plant
#626 Diego’s family received a papaya and banana plant.
#626 Diego, #727 Salvador and # 725 Pedro’s family will be starting a smoothie store and these fruit plants will help with this new endevour
#722 Miriam’s family received a banana plant. This was a prize for having the best garden!!!
The trip to Chuk Muk was very bumpy as large portions of road had turned into big potholes as a result it took us about an extra 30 minutes to get there.
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Accompanying me and driving the truck were Gloria and Julio from Mayan Families and Teresa from the village. Our goal was to locate the homes of the 19 families receiving mattresses next Tuesday and the one family receiving a whole bed. Twelve of these mattresses were purchased by Carrie Frampton’s grade 6 class at QBMS.
The families received wooden bunkbeds after the mudslide. Culturely the Mayan’s do not like sleeping up high so most families cut them into 2 beds. For 6 years they have been sleeping on the hard wood so you can imagine how excited they are to receive a mattress.
Each family is paying for their mattress with a beaded keychain. We also have lovely sheets donated by The Old Dutch Inn in Qualicum and families can purchase a sheet with a keychain.
As you can imagine it took hours to locate all the families. A lot of the roads in Chuk muk are unusable due to the rain and we could only walk to some houses. At this time we also hired more women to make beadwork at better than fair trade prices and talked to families to see how they are doing.
Our last mattress was in Panabaj. It was at the home of #574 Lidia and # 623 Dolores.
This family lives in a three room house that is bairly better than a hovel. They have a new home in Chuk Muk but do not live in it as the father collects firewood for a living and you can only collect firewood in Panabaj as Chuk Muk is surrounded by coffee plantations. This is low paying backbreaking work. We offered a bike to help but he would be too exhaused after collecting firewood to ride the hills back to Chuk Muk. What makes this family awesome is that they have 2 teenage girls in Basico. They really push for education even though they are dirt poor. They do not have a stove, a table and one of the boys sleeps on 2 planks that are barely 2 feet long precariously balanced on 2 cement blocks. There are 9 people in this family and the mother has eye and lung problem due to cooking on an open fire.
The young boy sleeping on the 2 planks is our latest sponsor child ( thanks Steve and Cheryl). And hopefully we can get him a bed in the new year.
