GATE (Global Awareness Through Experience)

Guatemala

March 28 - April 7, 2012

~ Holy Week ~

Registration deadline: January 13, 2012

HOLY WEEK Hotel Reservations are closing fast!

Please contact us immediately for program details 608.791.5283

July 20 - 30, 2012

Registration deadline: April 20, 2012

Encounter people living out their values through active resistance. See first hand the effects of trade agreements in the countryside and how emigration is seen as a sole alternative. Witness grassroots efforts to provide jobs to build a more sustainable future. Explore human rights issues. Presenter Julia Esquivel, poet, theologian, teacher, and human rights advocate, shares her spiritual wisdom.

Come and walk this land with us!

Cathedral in Antigua; photo taken by Jim Hendrickson

The program includes several presentations that orient the participant to the reality of the country, including:

Mayan roots and spirituality
Historical and political reality of Guatemala
Human rights and concerns
Systems of poverty affecting indigenous people
Community leadership in liberation model
Learn how economic needs affect immigration issues

Starts in Guatemala City, then moves to the highland of Quiche, San Lucas Toliman, Santiago Atitlan, in the lake area, and ends in Antigua.

Chichicastenango market.

Click here to visit a past traveler's journal

and to learn more about the GATE experience.

Resources for more information on Guatemala:

Click here to download a flier...

GHRC: Founded in 1982, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, humanitarian organization that monitors, documents, and reports on the human rights situation in Guatemala, advocates for survivors of human rights abuses in Guatemala, and works toward positive, systemic change.

www.soaw.org

www.8thdaycenter.org

"Wonderfully diverse, yet all contributed to the experience of Guatemala and her beautiful people. Thank you for this wonderful, life-giving and most of all, spiritually renewing journey!"

--Mary DeForrest, Guatemala Holy Week 2008

Upcoming Trips

March 28 - April 7, 2012

~ Holy Week ~

Registration deadline: January 13, 2012

HOLY WEEK Hotel Reservations are closing fast!

Please contact us immediately for program details 608.791.5283

July 20 - 30, 2012

Registration deadline: April 20, 2012

Program Fees:

March 28-April 7, 2012 (Holy Week) $1,375.00 * plus registration fee

March 10-17, 2012 $1,010 * plus registration fee

July 20-30, 2012 $1,300 * plus registration fee
Registration Fee: $100.00 if registered by the deadline date.
* $150.00 late registration fee.

Air fare not included. All trips include transportation

(except taxi to airport at the end of the trip), accommodations,

and food (except one meal).

"Wonderfully diverse, yet all contributed to the experience of Guatemala and her beautiful people. Thank you for this wonderful, life-giving and most of all, spiritually renewing journey!

The hope I've seen will stay with me."

~ Mary De Forest, Washington

Peru for 2012!

GATE has added a new program to Peru - check

out the details!

2012 Gate Schedule

People Are #1...

Check out this unique publication and learn of the struggle for rights and equality in the work place!

Justice Jottings:

Solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters in this hemisphere...

Guest Perspective

Check out our guest article concerning immigration, and the consequences and issues rising from recent policies...