Day 1: Pocohil

Our first day in Guatemala we dived right in. After breakfast we sorted all our project gear and had a meeting to get to know each other and talk about our goals and plans. Then we headed to our work sites, the men to Xecopol, where they would be constructing some latrines and building a pottery wheel, and the women to Pocohil to lead a women's health training and interview several recipients of the stoves.

When we arrived in Pocohil, the women of the village were already gathered in the covered porch of a home. We felt like honored guests, as they had spread the dirt floor with a carpet of soft, fragrant pine needles and welcomed us with a huge bouquet of flowers from their gardens.

Along with the women's training sessions (more in a future post) some teams interviewed women who had recently received the stoves. All in all in was a fabulous day!