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Long Way Home, Building Schools out of Trash in Guatemala
Twenty years ago, Matthew Peneitz joined the Peace Corps and worked in Guatemala. The poverty he saw changed his life, and in time, that of many others.
“I’d never seen anything like that before. And I think the paramedic in me took over, and I wanted to rescue as many people as I possibly could who were living in extremely impoverished conditions,” says Peneitz.
“And so, after my Peace Corps service, I decided to start an NGO so I could keep doing the work that I had started. And that was the birth of Long Way Home.”
It’s an inspiring story. Matthew and Long Way Home built a park and a school campus, and have undertaken hundreds of community projects over the last 20 years. And remarkably, they build using tires, soil, and trash.
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Long Way Home, Building Schools out of Trash in Guatemala
Twenty years ago, Matthew Peneitz joined the Peace Corps and worked in Guatemala. The poverty he saw changed his life, and in time, that of many others.
“I’d never seen anything like that before. And I think the paramedic in me took over, and I wanted to rescue as many people as I possibly could who were living in extremely impoverished conditions,” says Peneitz.
“And so, after my Peace Corps service, I decided to start an NGO so I could keep doing the work that I had started. And that was the birth of Long Way Home.”
It’s an inspiring story. Matthew and Long Way Home built a park and a school campus, and have undertaken hundreds of community projects over the last 20 years. And remarkably, they build using tires, soil, and trash.
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