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Guatemala Trip Cancelled

For the past few years the Woodland World Wide program would raise money to send a few of their alumni on a trip to help in a program that would give back. Instead of supporting the scholarship this year they decided to put the money into a trip for their current students. But, unfortunately the trip has been canceled.

They picked Guatemala to work with two programs, one being Starfish One by One which is a program that works with ingenious Mayan girls. This program is a very progressive service and Woodland World Wide planned on learning a lot of things from them as well. The people in the program help in serving for job training, empowerment training, and education for the Mayan girls.

The other program was a service called the walking tree, which pair’s native people with high school students. This was so the students could get a feel for what it is like to experience the way that these people live. Hatch wanted the trip to be a learning experience for the kids, “We looked into a lot of different things to do there,” Hatch stated “but a lot of it would have been experiencing the day to day life of these girls, and helping them in anyway that we could.”

However, Guatemala is experiencing some civil and politically unrest. As well as the trip costing $2,000 per person. Guatemala suffers from a lot of poverty and oppression and Hatch didn’t feel that it was a safe place to send her students.

Since they are not considering rescheduling the trip Hatch was thinking about doing a domestic trip so many of their students could attend in the near future.