NORDHOFF L.I.V.E.

In June of 2023, seven Nordhoff LIVE students traveled to Guatemala. Upon arrival, we journeyed to Antigua, where we stayed in homestay with a local family. After learning about the various projects being supported by the local nonprofit we were working with, we began our service project. Throughout our week in Antigua, we were able to assist in the building of two new rooms onto a free medical clinic that focuses on child and maternity care in the town of Alotenango, which was just outside the city of Antigua. During our service work, our team helped to clear the area that the rooms would occupy, dug holes for support beams, mixed cement to support those support beams, painted all the beams and roofing that would be used in the project, built the framing for one of the two rooms and began installing the roofing. 

During our time in Antigua, we were also able to learn about and volunteer at another project supported by the local nonprofit, a Special Needs Home and Hospital, where our group spent some time completing murals on the walls of the facility.