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Adventure Life Grant: Supporting Long Way Home in Guatemala

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by: Elizabeth Conway
The non-profit organization, Long Way Home, receives an Adventure Life grant to help complete construction of a K-12 school buildings in Guatemala. The school is unique in that it is being built with re-purposed materials such as earth-packed tires, inorganic trash-filled plastic bottles and earth-filled feed bags
Students and volunteers in front of the schoolThe intricate down ceilings made of recycled materialspoured bodega roof Working on the patioconstruction of the patio roofattachment of the corrugated panels for the patio roofmid-contruction of the schoolConstruction of the school eave for the west bodega's rain harvesting systemUnder West Bodegacrew prepping the roof for its next coatGlass bottle artthe children's schoolField for the retaining wallRecycled tires that will become the retainig wallWork begins on the retaining wallVolunteers dig out a trench for the retaining wallThe trench for the retaining wallvolunteers work on contruction of the retaining wallRecycled tires being laid in the trench