Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala

by Come Mejor Wa'ik
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Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala
Food creativity: healthier families in Guatemala

Project Report | Dec 2, 2024
Wa'ik Report X for GlobalGiving August-November24

By Bibi la Luz Gonzalez | Founder

Flower arrangement for the wedding with corn
Flower arrangement for the wedding with corn

Dear Friends, 

Thank you for being part of Wa’ik for believing and trusting in our work, and giving us the energy to continue. 

We are pleased to share what we’ve been up to this second part of the year, and with that, special thank you to our active Board Members and Wa’ik family for improving the health and making nutritious food accessible to all. 

 

World Food Day!

For 5th consecutive year, we’ve been part of the World Food Day campaign of #UniversalPlate. This year we supported two places: 

  • San José Pinula municipalities, by giving out 70 Universal Plate including local pineapple, chicken,egg, carrots, rosa de jamaica (non-sweetened). Who was it for? The caddies at Alta Vista Golf Club. Many caddies are the fathers or older sons of residents in Concepción Pinula, where we usually go. Caddies are often sidelined, and forgetting that they are also sportsmen, and therefore, should eat as such to fill their nutritional needs. Here Celeste and Fernando not only prepared the plates, but gave a workshop for the caddies on food, health and sports. It was the first time caddies had a dedicated space: we are closing inequality towards more inclusion through food education and meals!
  • El Paredón beach: with the boat and ferry operators, in collaboration with Sal de Mar, we gave out 20 delicious fruit bowls and sandwiches prepared with the very own Sal cuisine. Thank you to Peter and Juan Carlos!

 

Peaches, peaches and more peaches! 

  • In Guatemala: San José Pinula was filled with peaches, as we got the final batch of many peaches, nationally grown, to give out to our caddie friends in preparation of the workshop!
  • In Japan, Bibi and Shun made the most of the peach “MOMO” season in Japan, through the humid summer, to explore and interview Japanese peach farmers. With that, and through the seasons, they have travelled to Yamanashi, Fukushima, and Okayama. Stay tuned for more peach stories (and of course, the daily once on our IG stories with the 366  languages of peaches, one each day for this year).
  • Bibi & Shun got married, and of course peach were present! And let us not forget, the essence of Guatemala: corn/maize, which was also present at the wedding. Our menu was Japanese inspired by Masashi and Bibi, and we are grateful with the wedding guest who opted to donate to Wa'ik as our wedding presents. Thank youuuu!!

 

National Golf Championship with Wa’ik

Following our active participation with the caddies and alliance with Alta Vista Golf Club, we have been participating in the month-long National Golf Championship, with every weekend, delivering fruits and grains to the caddies and players. Up until the end of November, we delivered 500 bananas, apples, Guatemalan scones, and nutritional information about every food, so as they understand the importance of eating them for their health and game. 

 

SALAZÓN 2024

And of course, the annual celebration of Salazon, where SAL celebrates it's anniversary and part of the revenue is donated to Wa'ik! Thank you to all the 3-day long chefs from Guatemala, more Central America and now South America, for being part of this great social impact feast! Thank you to everyone involved, especially Sal, 14 Grados, and our team!

 

Best Food friends!

Recently, the awards of Latin America 50 Best Restaurants, Best Chef, and Best Pizza took place. We are thrilled to see so many of our friends (and even Wa'ik Board Members) on the list! MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS for this achievement, and all the effort, dedication and tasty creativity you put in. Here is a toast for many more collaborations together!! To all the chefs, we gave them as a thank you a peach made of wood (and real life peach seed) as a napkin holder with an organic peach-colored cotton napkin made by local artesans in Jocotenango.

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We are now preparing our iconing Christmas delivery in Concepción Pinula, please support us in reaching better and more people in the village! Gracias, thank you!

Caddies with the Universal Plate
Caddies with the Universal Plate
Fernando at the workshop with the caddies
Fernando at the workshop with the caddies
Celeste at the workshop for the caddies
Celeste at the workshop for the caddies
Preparing the Universal Plate!
Preparing the Universal Plate!
Hello Universal Plate from Guatemala!
Hello Universal Plate from Guatemala!
Celeste and Peter during Salazon 2024!
Celeste and Peter during Salazon 2024!
Wooden peach napkin holders for the Chefs!
Wooden peach napkin holders for the Chefs!
In Pinula, eating peaches!
In Pinula, eating peaches!
All the peaches that we bought and brought!
All the peaches that we bought and brought!
Our friends in Alta Vista receiving the peaches!
Our friends in Alta Vista receiving the peaches!
Giving too to Fray Lubin for his food pantry in z1
Giving too to Fray Lubin for his food pantry in z1
Bibi and Shun's wedding with peaches in Japan
Bibi and Shun's wedding with peaches in Japan
Bibi eating a peach in Japan
Bibi eating a peach in Japan
Konno Farms in Fukushima
Konno Farms in Fukushima
Women leading agriculture and peaches in Japan!
Women leading agriculture and peaches in Japan!
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Aug 4, 2024
Wa'ik Report IX for GlobalGiving April-July'24

By Bibi la Luz Gonzalez | Founder

Apr 8, 2024
Wa'ik Report VIII for GlobalGiving Dec23-March24

By Bibi la Luz Gonzalez | Founder

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Location: Guatemala - Guatemala
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Bibi La Luz Gonzalez
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