Rio Dulce/Ak' Tenamit Feb 19-22

We spent only one night in Honduras and then continued our trip to the Rio Dulce (Sweet River). It's a large river that runs from a large lake into the Caribbean. While we were there we stayed at a NGO called Ak' Tenamit. The first night we were there we were divided into 2 smaller groups and our group first had a play day, and then the next day we worked.
Here are some pics of our play day (I have yet to obtain the pics from our work day... but soon I will be able to prove how hard we worked ;) )


Ak' Tenamit has 2 sites accesible by boat - a girls site, which has the girls dormitory (it's not actually a dorm, but just the houseing for the girls) and staff housing, and the guest lodge that we stayed in, and a boys site, which has the boys dormitory, the school, the Women's co-op store, and a restaurant (which wasn't really a restaurant that was open everyday for any visitors - but if booked ahead you could arrange meals) which is where we ate breakfast and lunch. We ate supper back on the girls side - rice and beans!
Jen, Jana, Deanna and Carolina


Adam, Amanda, Jess - I asked them to smile.. this is what I got

After b'fast, Melissa (a former U of S development student who now volunteers/works at Ak' Tenamit) showed us around the school. It was the Mayan new year that week, so the kids didn't have school - just a lot of celebrations. We watched a bit of a soccer game - the guy employees versus the boy students - the students won.

Caitlin, Adam, Me, Carolina, Melissa