At 8:30 this morning Sarah and I walked up the street out of Santiago and toward Tzanchaj to visit the Escuela David LaMotte, which is mostly known to us and local friends as “Nino’s school.”  It wasn’t long until a passing pickup truck let us climb in the back for a ride up the road, […]

If you want to see a little slice of what heaven on earth is like, let me invite you to explore Santiago, Atitlan and especially, a little school called Puerta Abierta, or Open Door. Puerta Abierta’s mission is to empower children to use creativity, critical thinking and literacy to become innovative problem solvers. Through developing […]

  It’s hard to fully capture the feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, and fulfillment that I’m feeling today. We invited Sara Morales (my ‘tocaya’ — one who has the same name as me), the music teacher at our program in El Tejar, to come with us to visit Chacaya, because we knew of the gifts […]

Hello everyone! Hola! Sarah here, checking in from Santiago, Guatemala. Suddenly, we are on day five of our trip. Yesterday we made our way to the beautiful Lake Atítlan and today we will cross the lake in a public boat to visit three of our partner schools and libraries near Santiago, Atítlan. We have brought […]

It’s good to be back in Guatemala. If I’m counting right, this is my 17th trip in the last eleven years, and it has come to feel like another home. For ten days, Sarah Robinson Bryan, PEG’s Director, and I will be traveling to visit a few projects and connect with possible new partners here, […]

As PEG celebrates its tenth anniversary, we are excited to share news of some exciting and positive changes in the way we do this work. The biggest of those is that we have recently hired Sarah Robinson as the new Executive Director. PEG is a small organization, so that’s not a full time job, but […]

December 2, 2014 Dear friends, It has been an exciting year for PEG Partners, as we celebrated our tenth anniversary. We are moving in some new directions, with a sense of potential in the air. That seems just seems right on an anniversary and at the new year, when we look both forward and back. […]

This article first appeared in the Black Mountain News. David LaMotte, musician, peace activist, and philanthropist, stopped by Black Mountain Presbyterian Church Weekday School to give the students a personal thank you for their help with a school in Guatemala that was in need of books. The Escuela David LaMotte, usually called Nino’s School, was […]

It was so good to see friends in El Tejar today.  I caught a public bus (they are known as ‘chicken buses’) to Chimaltenango, then switched and caught another to El Tejar and walked back into the neighborhood to the school, which is called ‘CEDIN’.  After hugs and general checking in, I walked to the […]

Antigua, Guatemala  8AM Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 I’m waking up this morning in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (also known as Xela), realizing that it has suddenly been a week since I arrived. The time is going quickly, and it has been a whirlwind. Here are a handful of highlights from the last week: Camino Seguro — After years […]