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Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Mauri’s blanket class

The following photos show how my wife Mauri, with a little bit of fabric, a little bit of time and some great friends like you …  they were able to fill a great need in the lives of people and have a lot of fun doing it!In many of the villages, it gets extremely cold [...]

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It has been both exciting and rewarding to work with people that really do want “a hand up” not “a handout” and to have the opportunity, training and tools to help themselves.  With corn being such an important part of their daily diet, it was an excellent opportunity for us to help them get water from [...]

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A mix of the old and the new!

Some people say, ” if it ain’t broke …  then don’t try to fix it! ” and that statement certainly applies very well to the way people think around Oaxaca.  Some of the pictures below show how people still use oxen to plow their fields, Dragging the hand carved plow, which is cut from a [...]

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