By Mick Quinn & Debora Prieto | Co-Founder
A warm hello from Guatemala. We hope this newsletter finds you well.
The season referred to in the title of this update is the rainy season. Here in Central America the rain start in May, eases a lot in July & August and generally tapers out by October. The most worrisome time for us though, is the month of September.
Since we first arrived to Guatemala we have only had one major storm (Agatha in 2010). This one caused a great loss of life, flooding and tremendous landslides.
Yet, even without a major hurricane passing directly over or by us, every year the rainy season saturates the earth which, at the end of season always tends to cause landslides.
This year we were lucky with the weather and we only had to close our school twice in the season. We constantly monitor the weather and if a lot of rain is forecast for a school day we will get in touch with families and tell them not to send the kids in that day. The reason for this is most of our kids live in areas that are prone to landslides, or they live in mountainside villages where the roads are prone to collapse.
So we try to guard against exposing them to traveling when landslides or flooding are likely. The other issue is the location of our school is also prone to flooding after heavy rain since on the corner of our street is the lowest point of the town of Antigua and rain quickly turns it into a lake!
But, thankfully the season is coming to an end, the sun is coming out for the next six months… a sweet reward indeed.
We would also like to express our sincere thanks and we hope you like our photos from this month at the Integral Heart Family School.
With best wishes,
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