G 12 Project's Expanding to China

I spent 10 days in Kunming, China, Chinese main gate to east and south Asian countries as well as to the highlands areas in the north including Tibet, visiting local children living in the highlands. The children living far away from the city are also experiencing extreme poverty under the unsanitary environment. Until all the children on earth become a beneficiary of equal education regardless of where they live and who they are, our G12 Project based in Vancouver, Canada will not stop finding, connecting, and supporting them with a firm belief that all of us are one family.

                                  Stone Forest in Kunming

                                         
                                          Guhyang Cave in Kunming                                      

                                 
                                  The Children in Dream Community                                  
 

                                          Boys are same where ever we go

                                 
                                  Single Mother and Son in poverty

                                  The Children in Dream Community at a local retaurant

                                          Chapel Time at a Chinese government registered
                                          Samja church- No freedom of religion!

                                          Grandma and granddaughter

                                  Two boys in the highlands area, 15 hours from
                                  Kunming-no water, no wash

                                 
                                  This is the tough road we took on the way to
                                  meet the children

                                 
                                  How dare they can live on the hill, are they
                                  cliff-hangers?

                                  Kumsa Liver and the highlands

                                 
                                  Potatoes farm in the highlands-white and
                                  purple flowers

                                 
                                  These are the kids we are looking for-it is
                                  extremely rare to see children's smile in public, why?

                                 
                                  What are you looking at, man?

                                 
                                  Who can help them wash their hands and faces?

                                 
                                  A beautiful potato flower

                                 
                                 A church and Tobacco farm- many Christians
                                 in rural areas make ends meet by farming tobacco.
                                 Who can stone them?

G12 Project's 2nd Scholars in Guatemala

                                  15. Edwin Ottoneil Alcor Patzan: 16 years old

                                 
                                  16. Edwin Yolando Sequen: 13 years old
                                 

                                  17. Maria Luz Canel Chon: 12 years old
                               
                                  18. Ingrid Maribel Miza: 14 years old

G 12 Project's 1st Scholars in Guatemala

                      1. Brenda Mariela Culajay Camey: 14 years old

           2. Douglas Alfredo Joi Patzan: 17 years old

                      3. Evett Daniela Leonardo Hernandez: 13 years old

                      4. Fabio Modesto Simon Jimenez: 12 years old

                    5. Glendy Aleida Patzan Chiroy: 13 years old

                    6. Jessica Roxana Ticun: 13 years old  

                    7. Karla Yesenia Tomas Reyes: 15 years old

                    8. Lesly Elsy Patzan Chiroy 17 years old

9.                    9. Lesly Melisa Ticun: 15 years old

                    10. Moises Oliberto Chicop: 15 years old

                    11. Rosa Viviana Choxin Yucute: 16 years old

12.                    12. Selena Solis Raxon: 15 years old 

                    13. Vicente Enrique Joj Patzan: 19 years old

                    14. Wendy Araceli Patzan Chiroy: 11 years old

*** Our journey to recruit G 12 Project's scholars continues when the 100th scholar comes in.

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How can I forget the smiles of these children?

Education Beyond Borders

Guatemalan children, especially Mayan children in rural and highlands areas, are living under extremely poor situation; girls are often pressured to quit their school at their age 11or 12 because they should help out their families, cooking, cleaning and farming. They have been discriminated from the masculine-dominated society (machismo) for a long time. With a priority on girls’ education in that girls later become mothers and mothers become primary and foundational educators for their children so it is desperate to empower girls through education, the G 12 Edu Project is founded in Vancouver, Canada, as a non-profit foundation which plays a significant role of bridging Guatemalan (and other developing countries’) children with Korean communities in Canada and South Korea in light of becoming global family.  

Rigoberta Menchú -- My Suffering Country

I crossed the border, my love,
I don't know when I'll return,
perhaps in summer when Grandmother Moon and Father Sun
greet each other again one sparkling dawn.
While all the stars rejoice,
they will herald the first rains.
The pumpkin Victor planted the afternoon he was murdered by soldiers
will begin to sprout again.
The peach trees will bloom, and our fields will bloom. We will plant lots of corn,
corn for the children of all our land.
The bee swarms shall return
which so many massacres and so much terror drove away. Rugged hands shall again hold vat after vat to collect the honey.
I crossed the border drenched in sadness,
I feel great sorrow in this dark and rainy dawn,
which goes beyond my existence.
The raccoons cry.
The monkeys cry.
And the coyotes and the mocking birds are silent. The snails want to speak.
Mother Earth is in mourning,
stained with blood.
She cries day and night from so much grief.
She misses the rhythm of the mattocks and the machetes, the rhythm of the grinding stones.
Each morning she is anxious to hear
the laughter and songs of her glorious children.
I crossed the border with dignity.
My sack is filled with so many things from that rainy land. I carry undying memories of Patrocinio,
My sandals that were born with me,
The scent of spring, the scent of the moss, the caress of the cornfields,
and the proud scars of our childhood.
I carry my colorful guipil for the fiesta when I return. And yes, I carry my bones and my sack of corn, for come what may, this sack will return to where it came from.
I crossed the border, my love.
Tomorrow I shall return when my tortured mother weaves another guipil.
When my father burnt alive rises early once again to greet the sun from every corner of our little farm.
Then there will be rum for everyone, there will be tortillas and children's laughter
and joyful marimbas.
Fires will be lit at each farm and each river
to wash the maize flour at dawn.
We'll burn torches of pinewax to light the pathways, the gullies, the rocks and
the fields.


Rigoberta Menchú is an indigenous/Mayan humans rights advocate from Guatemala who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is a poem of hers that appeared in the January 1991 edition of Prism Magazine. Learn more about her here: Story,Foundation, Bio, Wikileaks.