Project Summary

This project was created to give service to multiple

sites in areas nearby Antigua, Guatemala for one
week. There were opportunities to volunteer at a
medical position, with orphaned and protected
children, at a construction site, or with the elderly. I
chose to volunteer along with two others at the
medical position.
We all began by going to our chosen sites, but due to
a strike by the doctors we would be assisting the
three of us were no longer able to keep the medical
position. In order to finish out our week of service,
two of us went to serve at the orphanage and the
other assisted at the construction site.
Project Highlights
One of the most notable things from this project was
the chicken bus. It was a bus that we rode to get to
our sites that was constantly full beyond capacity,
driving at ridiculous speeds, and hardly even slowed
down to pick up or drop off passengers. It was like
nothing Ive experienced in America, and made the
trip very interesting.
At the medical site we also had a man come in on a
leg that was broken nearly out of his skin. He had
been walking on it for 24 hours at that point and had
gotten it as a result from a mugging. It was brutal,
this was a much different place.
From My Journal
This city was fairly modern. It had a movie theatre
and modern ads and far less guns than we had seen in
Guatemala City.












Service in Antigua, Guatemala
Andrew Weber
Community Engagement Center
Spring 2014
This is one of the infamous Chicken Buses. It is a small,
used bus from two decades ago exported from America. It
will seat 7 to a row and you must speak Spanish in order
pay and realize when its your stop.
This is the cross that overlooks Antigua. In order to get
to it you need to hike for nearly half a mile up a staircase
through the trees. The view from the top is beautiful, and
will allow you to get a good look at the layout of
Antigua.