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May 2011 Compassion Fruit Society began construction of the eco-sustainable Project Somos Children’s Village near Tecpan, Guatemala. The Village will become the forever home to orphaned and abandoned children. The homes are being constructed using earth-bag construction. Each home will have a professionally trained Guatemalan foster mother raising up to seven children.

Hosts: Violeta Rosales & Nic Wirtz Listen to internet radio with hablaguate on Blog Talk Radio “Project Somos Children’s Village: Creating a Space for Children to Live and Learn” with Alicia Knox and Greg Kemp. Alicia Knox and Greg Kemp join us to discuss their ongoing project near the town of Tecpán, Guatemala. After serving   »Read More…

Jose and his mom, board member, Maria came to Guatemala for 3 weeks in August 2011 to help us on the ground.

200 pieces of bamboo arrived on Friday, July 29th. Each piece is 4-6″ in diameter and 10m in length and will be used for the roof structure for the first and second family home of Project Somos Children’s Village.

Project Somos delivers today’s breaking news from on site, where the first family home is about to be constructed.

Today, April 15, 2011 when we arrived at the land to drop off some supplies in the new container, this group of boys arrived and spontaneously assisted with the unloading!

On Wednesday, April 13th we moved this 28 foot container from highway near Tecpán to Chivarabal. It is the first “building” on the land and will be “home” to our tools.

Recently Compassion Fruit Society established a very exciting relationship with the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Since its founding in the 1870s, Rhode Island School of Design or RISD, as it is fondly nicknamed, has earned a reputation as one of the most distinguished art and design colleges in the United States. The   »Read More…

Katy Holtham initiated this exciting collaborative project with Fischy Music and the students at Sulhampstead & Ufton Nervet Primary School. Fischy Music worked with the children to write, compose and record this song for the Project Somos Children’s Village, Guatemala.

Written, performed and filmed by our Project Somos Canadian Youth Team (Chicas and Chicos), this is one in a series of commercials done to promote our upcoming Hair Cut-a-Thon at Philosophy the Salon on June 13, 2010 in Vancouver!