Broughton Students Travel to Guatemala
December 2004 - Eighteen Broughton High students and five adults renewed the school's friendships in Antigua, Guatemala as part of a weeklong trip last month to study Spanish and take part in a service project.After a Sunday tour of the Mayan ruins of Tikal, the students spent the week in Antigua taking one-on-one Spanish classes with native speakers, doing construction work, visiting a weaving cooperative and a coffee plantation and bargaining in the mercado.
The Broughton students visited the El Buen Samaritano, a daycare center in Jocotenango that has partnered with earlier teams from Broughton High. This team of Broughton students delivered donations from school supporters of art supplies, school materials, shoes, toiletries and hordes of beanie babies to the daycare center and an orphanage.
Broughton students and teachers spent two afternoons working construction for a new partner, Nuestros Aijados. This organization, known as The God's Child Project, is much like our Habitat for Humanity Program.
Several hundred pictures were taken oven the week and Broughton students are in the process of culling through them to select the best for a planned photography exhibition and market sale. This money will be added to the $2,000 raised from an earlier event, Souper Supper.
Souper Supper, now in its third year, was created by Visual Arts teacher Jan Johnston. The fundraiser, the exhibit, market sale and trip are part of the International Baccalaureate school's Proyecto Quetzal. The four-year old program has been organized by Johnston, Spanish teacher Wanda Easley and Broughton IB coordinator Wynn Cherry.
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