Each December we provide a special food basket to each student and their families to celebrate the holidays with a traditional meal. This "canasta navidena" includes a live chicken, plus rice, beans, grains, onions, garlic, tomatoes, guajillo chiles, achiote, and other spices for a nutritious traditional meal. Our school staff delivers the baskets in early December to over 115 families in five remote villages in Guatemala where our Maya students live and where food scarcity remains an issue.
Malnutrition and food scarcity remain serious challenges in these remote Maya villages in western Guatemala. Most families rely on the meager wages of their day laborer fathers or low-production subsistence farming. More nutritious meals affect our students' learning capabilities.
A healthy nutritious meal for the entire family brightens our students' and their families holiday. Many will keep the chicken and rely on eggs to continue providing a protein addition to future family meals.
More nutritious meals affect our students' learning capabilities. The curriculum at our Maya Jaguar schools also includes nutrition training and basic agricultural skills. When students bring this knowledge home, the entire family benefits.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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