Greetings from Chiapas.
We arrived yesterday safe and sound, and completely exhausted. We have since had an extremely busy few days. Yesterday, after ariving, we met with Rodolfo from HELPS (who makes the ONIL stove), Will, a doctor who is a friend of a friend of mine, and who works in La Universidad de la Tierra, a university which trains indigenous peope in medicine and health.
Today we spent the day in Zinacantan, a town close to SCLC, in which the Sedesol-Federal (the federal government social development agency) is instaling 100 ONIL stoves. We learned how to install the stoves, and even learned a few words of Tzotzil. The day was much longer than expected, though, and in the evening we rushed, in pouring rain, to meet Diane Livingston, a woman who works with stoves here, to pick up our equipment.
We have so much to think about that we can't keep it all straight.
Tomorrow morning at 8 we meet Fernando. Mexico definitely functions at all hours of day and nights.
We will write again in a week when we return to SCLC from Quexalhukum. Hopefully then we will have more time, and will have been able to process our thoughts more thoroughly.
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