A film by Eduardo Ronco Santella & Post Production by Eduardo Garcia Torres.  

Una colaboración entre Digital Democracy y Emma Hulse, una becaria de Fulbright, Proyecto Einstein está trabajando con estudiantes de básico y magisterio en el Instituto de Básico en Lancetillo.

Seeing these places and bargaining, it was a better part of the trip to experience it all just as we are experiencing everything else going on. 

Today we all woke up around 7:00 a.m. and had breakfast in the hotel. Afterwards we took the van up the mountain to El Hato for our first day of work at the school. 

 We were given a tour of El Hato and also a long walk to visit some of the children's homes to see how they live.  

Recuerdos fotográficos de los estudiantes de Saint Albans y Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC www.sidwell.edu durante su estancia en Guatemala, 18 junio-2 julio 2010. 

Photos by Peter Jahnig

He was very energetic and was always ready to help his students, and his teaching skills were quite evident because all of his students really understood the math problems that we were helping them with.

It is scary to think that such events happened regularly, that life is so fragile and cheap.

There was no one moment that struck me the most from my trip to Guatemala this summer. Rather, it was the response of the country to the simultaneous natural disasters it has faced in the past few months: hurricanes, landslides, collapsed highways, sinkholes, volcanic eruptions, and the myriad of problems each brings.