Growing Beyond Rice and Beans
In off-the-grid Nicaraguan villages, lack of infrastructure has it’s consequences. Labeled as “food deserts,” families have little to no access to certain food essentials that most of us take for granted. Almost all of the farm land in these areas is used for subsistence farming: staple crops like corn and beans. The crop from these staples is one of the only food sources the community has. While corn and beans can fill tummies, a diet based on only a few ingredients leaves gapping holes in the nutritional intake of growing children. These holes are widened further in the...
Read MoreSecrets from Copán: Truths of the Mayan Calendar
Everyone has heard the Mayan rumors that the world will end in 2012. For most of us, the arrival of 2012 and no apparent end of the world was evidence enough that the world would go on to see future years. The actual date associated with this mysterious Mayan prediction however, has not yet arrived. December 21st is still months away. The good news, is that new research from the Copán site in Honduras shows that perhaps we had nothing to worry about in the first place. William Fash, an archeologist from Harvard University, was interviewed in March by La Prensa, a Honduras newspaper. His...
Read MoreBreaking walls of La Chureca with Friendship
“Nothing could have prepared me for the town of La Chureca. We rode through the tumble of makeshift homes constructed from bits of cardboard boxes, beer cans, barbed wire, and draped with pieces of misshapen metal sheath for roofing. Instead of colored paint, the outsides of the tiny houses were collaged with faded advertisements for Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Sony Electronics and countless others. Our tires rumbled on toward the only building not based in garbage, the school. It’s white cinder blocks glow[ed] in the dusty air. The van came to a stop, and the door slid open. A wave of sour air...
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