STOVE BUILDING PROJECT

Funding is provided and volunteer labour supplied to convert homes from open wood-burning fires to the fuel-efficient vented stoves which improve the health and lives of families and their children and minimize forest depletion.

Volunteers build them on-site.

This is done on a work/travel trip where volunteers work for the first week, and tour the country in the second week.

DENTAL CLINICS

Dental personnel volunteer to conduct clinics and to provide educational information on health issues to individuals.

Dental care is minimal in these areas and whatever can be done for as many people as possible is carried out during the clinics.

EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS

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We are constructing new schools and classrooms for those who need them in the area of Uspantan, thanks to our "Buy a Block, Build a Future Campaign".

Financial assistance is delivered to schools.

A Scholarship Fund assists individual Mayan secopndary students.

Building Basic Education in Guatemala
Hearts & Hands Foundation in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Canmore, Calgary West and Guatemala Sur and the Ripple Effect Program of the Rotary Club of Winnipeg West are constructing elementary classrooms/schools in Uspantan. The first two classrooms were completed in Los Chivitos in 2008. Twelve more are to follow over the next three years. Involved also is the municipality of Uspantan and the residents of the communities where construction will occur. Victor Hugo Figuero Perez, Mayor of Uspantan, provides the excavation equipment and the professional supervision of the construction. The families provide the in-kind construction labour. In addition to classrooms or buildings the goal is to provide the basic needs for a quality school environment such as latrines, playground, kitchens, water filters, books, and teaching materials. School supplies and materials are distributed.

Education for girls is supported, as they often are less educated than boys.