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Building Homes in Guatemala

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Sixteen students and four faculty members recently traveled to Antigua, Guatemala for Taft's ninth annual service trip. Antigua is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala, famous for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque-influenced architecture and for its colonial church ruins. It served as the capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala, and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Each year Tafties travel to the region to build houses. This year the group worked on four homes, bringing the total number of homes in the region built by Taft students and faculty to 27. The group also volunteered their time at a homeless shelter, and assisted with a clothing distribution. The trip included a weekend excursion to Lake Atitlan, with stops at the Mayan ruins at Iximche and the indigenous market at Chichicastenango.

 

Enjoy a full gallery of photos from the trip.  (photos courtesy David Dethlefs)


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