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The gods, Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth, created the world.
The waters parted and a land of mountains, valleys and streams appeared.
When the fruit of their labors was revealed in all its glory, and the
gods saw the beauty of the earth and its creatures, they decided that
it needed guardians...
Sacred book of the Quiché Maya, discovered in Santo Tomás Chuilá, now known as Chichicastenango, at the beginning of the 18th century.
Popol-Vuh
The majority of villages in Guatemala have no official trash dumps or systems to collect and contain their trash. Trash is dumped on the ground, in lakes and in rivers. Vital drinking water is being contaminated. Children are playing in garbage and disease is being spread.
Pura Vida teaches villagers to compact clean, dry plastic trash into used plastic bottles, thereby converting waste into easily-storable and transportable “Eco-blocks” for construction.
Mission:
To promote environmental consciousness among the indigenous villages of Guatemala, in order to curb the contamination of air, soil and water, promote healthier living conditions, and preserve the beauty of the land.
The world wide consuming of enbottled water since 1997 has tripled to aprox. 240 millions of liters, which are sold in plastic bottles!
...The majority of villages in Guatemala have no official trash dumps or system to contain their trash....
About Pura Vida:
Pura Vida started as a pilot project in January 2005 in the village of San Marcos la Laguna in order to solve the community’s trash problem. After two years of experience the Pura Vida pilot project is emerging as an ecological movement around Lake Atitlán.
Pura Vida believes that as part of nature, human beings are responsible for the waste we produce. Communities must share this responsibility with environmental organizations, corporations, local political authorities, teachers, parents and children. Pura Vida is building with trash while building the environmental consciousness of communities.
