The following excerpt is from an August 23, 2010 article published by The Kansan. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
After Tropical Storm Agatha collided with Guatemala this summer, its aftermath created scenes of villages destroyed and families swept away. With a psychological toll as heavy as its physical effects, the storm remained long after the skies cleared. There to help pick up the pieces was Wuku’ Kawoq, a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 partly by two alumnae, Emily Tummons and Anne Kraemer Diaz, and annually aided by University students.
Disaster relief immediately became a priority in addition to the organization’s pre-existing summer plans of providing medical services to Guatemalans in their indigenous Mayan language, Kaqchikel.
Tummons, board chair of Wuku’ Kawoq and an instructor of Kaqchikel at the University, said that among the organization’s undertakings are child malnutrition projects in poor coastal communities, water projects in rural communities and diabetes projects near Guatemala City…
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