GENERAL INFORMATION
PLANT TREES AND LEARN SPANISH
 The
School is called “Flor del Maíz” because this is the Spanish
translation of the word Tzutujil, which is the name of the Mayan people of
San Pedro, and also the name of their language.
Flor del Maíz is a profitable organisation that uses the income of
its students to help the community. The school thus combines a mixture of Spanish
classes with volunteer work in order to improve the local environment and aid
in various areas of education. Flor del Maiz supports two small projects in
particular :a project which helps the poorest children in the community by
giving them the opportunity to attend school, and another which helps to plant
more trees to keep the forests alive.
OUR PHILOSOPHY:
Flor del Maíz is an organisation that works to protect the values which
we feel are currently being lost from the community in San Pedro. The aim of
the school is to teach people how to contribute to the improvement of environmental
problems, and how to work for the community. We teach them about economic development
and the values of life.
OUR VISION:
To express the important viewpoints of or culture. In this way we hope to rescue
the values that we feel we are losing in our society.
OUR MISSION: To unite our traditional culture with
modern culture in a positive way.
We hope to restore confidence in our own culture, reinforce human values and
to be open to other ideas.
OUR GOAL:
To rescue our culture through the participation of people who believe in and
have confidence in our work, to create a large team to improve the environment,
and be able to give something back to mother nature.
To create an agreeable atmosphere for our students so that they can have the
opportunity and confidence to express their feelings and share their life experiences
with the employees at the school as well as with their host families.
To plant more trees and to find more children to support who do not have the
opportunity to receive a good education.
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