Cunen film project

Returned from El Salvador to Antigua on Saturday, then yesterday I travelled with Vico and Henry from the headquarters in San Lucas Sacatepequez to FUNCEDESCRI's community center in Cunén, about 6 or 7 hours away. Getting to know the work at the center as well as accompanying and trying to help Vico as he is filming a documentary on medicinal plant production and use in the traditional medicine clinic at the center. Learning about the use of medicinal plants in the process.

Got some good feedback on the proposal I wrote to use the internet and audio media to distribute information to the communities. This was discussed in a meeting at the headquarters last week, and the staff from the community centers liked some of the ideas and made suggestions about others to better fit with the social and economic realities.

The media center under construction

Myra and Vico

Harvesting plants at the center

Sorting and cleaning the rosemary stalks

One of the new wells in nearby Xemanzana

Sifting the dried linaza (flax)

Cunen film project

Cunen, Guatemala