Proyecto: Casa Para Con Personas

Homes for People

Hello my name is Gavin
Hola, mi nombre es Gavino (in Guatemala).


Back in 2010 I journeyed to Guatemala to study and to learn a language, namely Spanish. My plan was then to travel south to Nicaragua volunteering working with children. I had it all arranged. I even had a school in place where I would be volunteering and working with children.

Plans changed as I fell in love with a people and its country and yes I stayed.

Guatemala is a forgotten land, lost in distant history with people yes all over the world not knowing where it is and still believing it is embroiled in some horrible and never ending civil war. 

Guatemala's a very long and protracted horrendous civil war back in 1996. 

So where is Guatemala?
Guatemala is situated just south of Mexico and Belize and north of both El Salvador and Honduras.  

It has two coastlines the Pacific and the smaller Atlantic coast. In Guatemala you can experience the very hot black sand beaches (volcanic) on the Pacific side. You can watch strong surf waves with equally strong rip tides. So if you venture into the Pacific, swimmer beware, the rip tides are very strong and only really recommended for very strong swimmers. Even strong swimmers though need to heed the warnings and no one can swim against a rip tide.

On the Caribbean side of Guatemala are steamy jungles and the Garinagu people who are mixed descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people. Places there, such as the town of Livingston offer a lazy easy going sun drenched lifestyle. 

There are many Maya ruins in Guatemala. Well known incredible Maya ruins like the ones in Tikal in the north offer splendours unbelievable. There are also less well known ruins like El Mirador in the northern part of Guatemala near the Mexican border. Here to visit El Mirador involves a swift but expensive helicopter ride or a hike or pack horse five day round trip. 

Then there are the western highlands holding valleys crested in waves of hills and high mountains where volcanoes, some very active that dominate the view.

Lago Atitlan rightly names the most beautiful place in the world

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lago_de_Atitlan

by Aldous Huxley is a deep vast lake rimmed with small villages and towering volcanoes. 

Maya villages and small towns rim the lake from (gringo-ville) Panajachal ...    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/_Panajachel

Santiago ...    http://www.santiagoatitlan.com/indexeng.html


San Marcos and the trendy .... San Pedro... 

Guatemala's cultural differences are played out in colourful costumes and beliefs dictated by region with the incredible Maya people. Crafts and art works carefully hand crafted present an array that dazzles the eye..

Guatemala is also second to Haiti as the poorest country in the region with countless people living without the basic human  rights of clean water and safe shelter. Safe housing in a land with too many fault lines, eight in total, making it a shaky place to live. I personally experienced countless tremours and earthquakes while living here... 


While there are many NGO's mostly operating out of Antigua a beautiful city the needs there are less. Comfort for volunteers seems more paramount in Antigua. While many do provide people with the basics of water and shelter, what I want to accomplish is much more than that. 

"Safe Housing" 

in a land that shakes a lot.  

Architecturally designed homes 

professionally engineered and constructed 

with local materials 

&

volunteer labour. 

I already have professional and skilled people for this project

 They are ready with your help to build

Homes to with-stand the tremours and conditions that are common.

Proyecto: Casa Para Con Personas

Project: Homes For the people.

In these uncertain times  

I still believe in miracles
Do You? 

With your help we can do this.

Charity sometimes gets stretched too far

so why not experience not charity but an exchange. 

 Take a Trip of a lifetime
Experience of a Lifetime

Learn Spanish

Learn about Guatemala 

plus

 Help Build a Home

Your time will give you the opportunity to help build an impossible dream and a home for a family. It also will give you an experience of a lifetime, to delve into a culture with ancient roots, the amazing past of the Maya people, a chance to salsa your legs off, to taste hidden depths...and so much more, so what are you waiting for .... join us.

A home-stay experience with a Spanish family and three meals a day and yes 3 hours of Spanish classes per day (can be arranged) Wow, this equals full immersion.

Join us, we really need you

Learn Spanish, an amazing language 

Experience Xela, Guatemala an amazing place

The very best place to learn Spanish

Xela does not cater to English speaking tourists 

so more immersion

This is not a charity project. People will work and purchase their homes. First we will train them to become self sufficient. We will school them so that they will become independent. Each home will be provided with a small tract of land for micro-farming. Skills for both men and women will be taught. 

Give a person a fish and they will eat for the day

Teach a person how to fish and they will eat for their lifetime.

For more information write me

Gavin Jones

gavjonessm@gmail.com