Welcome
Hello everyone,
this blog will eventually turn into our group journal while we are in Guatemala. You won't need to start posting until we actually get to Guatemala, but eventually everyone will be posting on it.
The idea behind it being that we want to have a common space where everyone shares their thoughts during the project. Each day a different person will be in charge of updating the blog in order to include what happened as well as the discussions and ideas that we discuss.
This is the first time a Nourish team will be doing this and I think it is very important. Not only will this space be used to update our friends and family all over the world about what we are doing in AcTxumbal, but it will also spur discussion on the problems that we encounter. I expect us to discuss the importance of international development, sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, education and economic opportunity all in the context of student engagement.
I believe that we have a responsibility to ourselves as well as the people that we are working for to keep this updated and current. This will be the only public record about our work which makes it incredibly important because it holds our work to a public standard. I think that too often people engage in this kind of work without sharing their experiences with the world. Not only is this selfish, but it is also irresponsible considering the impact that we will have on the lives of the AcTxumbal community.
I look forward to reading your thoughts and having at the end of the project a literary account that we can all keep forever to remember the moments that our memory forgets.
Peace