Kelly Clobes will be using trash to create an educational treasure in Guatemala.
Through the Hug it Forward multicultural organization, she will help put the finishing touches on a âbottle schoolâ in the community of Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, during a âvoluntourâ trip June 9 to give kids the prospect of a better future.
The school has been built in three trips by various volunteers starting in February. Clobesâ group will finish the school and be part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark its completion.
Hug it Forward volunteers use eco-bricks, or plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash, to build schools. Clobes, who is president of the Hackett Elementary School PTO and heads up the food pantry at the school, said many kids in Guatemala have to leave school in their early teens to work and donât always have the opportunity to pursue higher education.
100 days without ALL CAPS rants: Why Donald Trump s online silence matters
18 Apr, 2021 03:02 AM
8 minutes to read Donald Trump s Twitter ban raised questions of free speech and censorship in the social media age. Photo / AP Donald Trump s Twitter ban raised questions of free speech and censorship in the social media age. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Sarah Lyall
That soothing sound that Gary Cavalli hears emanating from Twitter these days? It is the sound of silence specifically, the silence of former US president Donald Trump. My blood pressure has gone down 20 points, said Cavalli, 71, whose obsessive hate-following of Trump ended for good when Twitter permanently barred the former president in January. Not having to read his latest dishonest tweets has made my life so much happier.