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 Birthdays with Social Impact.

In many communities, children’s birthdays are moments of joy and celebration. At Añitos GT, we believe they can be much more than that: they can become opportunities for learning, emotional growth, and community connection, especially for children who have limited access to educational and recreational experiences.

Añitos GT is a social-educational initiative based in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala, focused on working with children from low-income families and vulnerable community contexts. The project transforms traditional birthday celebrations into educational experiences with social impact, using play as a pedagogical tool for inclusion and development.  

Añitos GT is built on a simple but powerful idea: children learn best when they feel happy, safe, and seen.

Our celebrations are designed as meaningful learning experiences, where play becomes a tool for building confidence, curiosity, and connection. Each activity invites children to participate actively, express themselves, and discover their own abilities in a joyful environment.

Through storytelling, games, and group dynamics, children naturally develop:

• Reading and communication skills

• Memory, attention, and problem-solving

• Social skills, empathy, and cooperation

• Emotional well-being and self-esteem

Learning happens organically, without pressure, through play, laughter, and shared experiences.

Shared Food as a Moment of Belonging

At the end of each celebration, children share cake and soft drinks together. This moment goes beyond food — it becomes a space for connection, care, and belonging.

For many children in the community, it is a special moment of feeling celebrated, included, and valued. It reinforces simple but essential values: sharing, gratitude, respect, and joy in being together.

Our Vision

Añitos GT is not about organizing parties.
It is about creating meaningful moments that leave a positive mark on children’s lives.

We use celebration as a gentle and powerful way to support children from vulnerable backgrounds, offering them not only a birthday, but an experience of learning, connection, and self-worth.

We believe that:

Every child deserves to feel seen, celebrated, and capable of learning — no matter their economic situation.

 

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First Birthday – Pilot Event

Name: Jairo
Date: February 2, 2026

The first event of the Añitos GT project will be the birthday celebration of Jairo, on February 2, 2026, marking the official launch of the birthdays with social impact model in the community of San Marcos La Laguna.

This pilot event will serve as a demonstration experience, where the educational activities, emotional support, and community integration space that define Añitos GT will be implemented for the first time.

Jairo’s celebration represents the starting point of the project and the first step toward replicating this model with more children in the community.

 

 

On behalf of Añitos GT and Nadadores Guatemala, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Impactbank for your generous donation. Thanks to your support, our students—including Camryn —have successfully completed their first swimming and literacy classes.

It was a deeply enriching experience where they learned so much and gained confidence in and out of the water. Your contribution is not just a donation; it is an investment in the safety, education, and future of the children in San Marcos La Laguna. Thank you for making this possible.

On behalf of Añitos GT and Nadadores Guatemala, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Impactbank for your generous donation. Thanks to your support, our students—including Camryn —have successfully completed their first swimming and literacy classes.

It was a deeply enriching experience where they learned so much and gained confidence in and out of the water. Your contribution is not just a donation; it is an investment in the safety, education, and future of the children in San Marcos La Laguna. Thank you for making this possible.

🌊 SPONSOR PROGRAM

Swimming and Reading Classes
For children from the community of San Marcos La Laguna

📅 Starting: Saturday, January 31st
Every Saturday, 5 different children will participate.

We kindly request a contribution to cover:
• Q20 – Child’s entrance fee
• Q20 – Transportation
• Q10 – Small snack

✨ A voluntary donation for the teacher is also greatly appreciated, as support for her educational work.

Your support gives these children the opportunity to learn, grow, and enjoy a safe space for education and recreation.

Thank you for your support! 💙

🌟 Transforming Lives in San Marcos La Laguna! 🌟

We are launching a beautiful community project to empower our local children through Literacy and Life Skills! 📚🏊‍♂️

Our goal is to provide 5 different children every Saturday with a unique day of growth and fun.

What does this project include?

• Reading & Storytelling: Igniting imagination and a love for books.

• Safe Swimming Lessons: Teaching vital water safety skills at the pool.

• Healthy Snacks: Providing nutritious fuel for active minds and bodies.

• How can you help? You can become a "Godparent of Opportunities" by sponsoring a child’s experience. A small donation of Q50 ($6.50 USD) covers:

• 🎟️ Q20: Pool entry.

• 🚤 Q20: Safe transportation.

• 🍎 Q10: A healthy snack (Fruit, sandwich, and juice).

• DONATIONS: https://impactbank.world/Anitos-Gt/donate/index.html

• Event Details: 📅 Starting: Saturday, January 31st. 🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM. 📍 Location: San Marcos La Laguna.

• We are also looking for volunteers! If you love storytelling, are a strong swimmer, or can help with logistics, we need you! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

• Join us in making a difference, one Saturday at a time. Every child deserves the chance to explore and learn!

Support for Don Enrique Pérez!🚨

Our beloved Don Enrique from Guatemala, Sololá, San Juan La laguna is fighting a courageous battle against cancer. Unfortunately, the treatment is very expensive, and he lacks the financial means to cover the costs on his own.

He has always been a man with a heart of gold, and today, he is the one in need of our support.

🙏 How can you help?

• Donate: Whatever your heart dictates. Every dollar brings him closer to his recovery.

   

  Unidos por Don Enrique Pérez! 🚨

• Nuestro querido Don Enrique de Guatemala, Sololá, San Juan La laguna está enfrentando una dura batalla contra el cáncer. Desafortunadamente, los costos del tratamiento son sumamente altos y él no cuenta con los recursos económicos para cubrirlos.

• Don Enrique es un hombre de gran corazón que siempre ha dado lo mejor de sí; hoy, es él quien nos necesita.

• 🙏 ¿Cómo puedes ayudar?

• Donando: Cualquier cantidad, por pequeña que sea, es un respiro para su salud.

Integration: The Real Ceremony Begins After the Ceremony

Why the psychedelic experience is not the healing — the integration is.

There is a moment after every ceremony when the fire cools, the songs fade, and the body returns to the soft weight of the Earth. The visions settle like ashes. The colors close their wings. The silence becomes a teacher.

And this is when the real medicine begins.

So many people believe the transformation happens inside the ceremony — inside the visions, inside the purge, inside the ecstatic or painful revelations. But after guiding hundreds of journeys and walking this path myself for many years, I know this truth intimately:

The psychedelic experience is not the healing.
The integration is.

The ceremony opens the door.
Integration is the walk through it.

What Is Integration?

Integration is the process of making the invisible visible —
turning visions into actions, realizations into choices, insights into embodied change.

It is how we take the medicine out of the maloca and into our lives.

Integration is not:

• analysis or overthinking

• rushing to interpret every symbol

• returning to your old life as if nothing happened

Integration IS:

• the willingness to change

• the courage to feel

• the practice of living from a new level of awareness

• honoring what the medicine asked of you

In the Amazon they say:
“Medicine gives you a teaching. You must give it your life.”

🌬 Why Integration Is Harder Than Ceremony

In ceremony, the medicine guides you.
In integration, you guide yourself.

The ego dissolves under the influence of the plants —
but returns the next morning, confused and sometimes scared.

Integration is where:

• old patterns try to reclaim you

• relationships shift

• emotions rise that were frozen for years

• clarity becomes subtle and requires listening

• the world expects you to be the same person you were before

This is why so many people lose their medicine —
not because it didn’t work,
but because they didn’t know how to hold it.

🐍 The Three Pillars of Integration

Below are the foundations I teach in my retreats and personal sessions.
Simple. Human. Deeply effective.
Rooted in Huni Kuin tradition, Amazonian plant work, and lived experience.

1. Slow Down: Don’t Re-enter Life Too Fast

The nervous system is open, sensitive, rewiring itself.

You cannot rush new wings.

After ceremony:

• Avoid crowds

• Avoid big decisions

• Avoid arguments

• Avoid screens and noise

• Walk slowly

• Speak less

• Listen more

Let the medicine finish its work inside you.

This is the icaros still vibrating in your bones.

2. Translate Vision Into Practice

The most important question after ceremony is:

“What did the medicine ask me to change?”

Sometimes it’s small:

• drink more water

• breathe

• rest

• express yourself

Sometimes it is profound:

• leave a harmful relationship

• forgive someone

• speak your truth

• begin a new path

• honor your creativity

• heal your lineage

Write it down.
Make it real.
Create a small daily practice that honors it.

A vision without action is a dream.
A vision with action becomes destiny.

3. Community & Support — You Cannot Integrate Alone

Ceremony breaks isolation.
Integration requires connection.

This is why ancestral traditions always have:

• elders

• guides

• listeners

• circles

• community presence

Talk to someone who can hold you — a facilitator, therapist, friend, elder.

Don’t disappear back into your old life.

Your new self needs witnesses.

🌿 What Integration Looks Like in Real Life

Integration is not mystical. It is practical, embodied, human.
It looks like:

• waking up earlier to meditate

• crying for the first time in years

• making healthier food

• respecting your body’s boundaries

• saying “no” with love

• saying “yes” to your creative fire

• reconnecting with nature

• calling your mother or forgiving your father

• stopping substances or habits that numb you

• allowing joy again

Integration is the art of living differently.

Hi Raquel, I’ve tried to combine and summarize a lot of our thinking here to help guide you….let us know if questions come up.

Bambu Atitlan: As Christopher has probably mentioned, we love the landscaping at Bambu house in Santiago Atitlan, both the entrance walk in and the lush gardens between and around the patio and the lake that include texture, structure, height variation, colors, flowers. We don’t know if they ever work on separating plants for sale, but it would be worth a trip over there to for a walk around.  I believe I recall it’s the owner who is the garden expert there.
https://bambuatitlan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tarifario-2024.pdf

Compost: We think there should be one compost area in the top section of the property near or around where all the bamboo has been processed. 

Mulch: We would like to use mulch in our planting areas where possible to help with soil fertility and water retention. The mulch/compost area to the lower left can be moved up for pathways, plant mulch or moved up to the back compost pile.

Kitchen Garden/Zone 1: Things we like include rosemary, basil, chipilin, mint. There used to be more lavender and rosemary on the property and perhaps with our new watering system we can now support them.

Seeds: The seeds we have on site are, milkweed, calico flower (the vine with giant flowers over the greenhouse), and nispero. Is it possible to grow nispero as a pruned orchard tree? I think I have only seen them in a spreading natural form.

Walking Pathway: We’re thinking that a mulched walking path might wind around from the hammock area (new porch) to along the top of the terrace (above existing mulch pile on lower left) and join path to lower house and kitchen. The middle area we can perhaps maintain as a grassy area. The walking pathway may need to be built up a bit as we don’t want it to become a compacted puddle during rainy season, we’re prefer the rain stay and move toward the plants.

Flowers: The area where the lower left compost currently is, can be all planted with flowers and grasses.

Ground cover: There is a ground cover with a little yellow flower — it’s a legume — that we really like. It’s still growing in the upper area and a bit behind the bedroom. We’d like to get that more established again behind the bedroom and next to the upper side of the bathroom. It used to be lush.

Upper area: We’re thinking this will ultimately be a sort of agro forestry area or agro orchard since that’s what we have. Eventually we can plant tree tomato, tomatoes or other greens and veggies in and around the fruit trees.

Eating: We love the idea of eating from the landscape, whether it’s for human consumption or supporting caterpillars, butterflies, hummingbirds and birds. So any plants that support these goals are welcome.

Fertilizer on site: The Home Biogas unit can producer fertilizer. If you feed the unit kitchen compost (only one citrus per day and no big seeds), it makes cooking gas and “burps” liquid. If you put a bucket under the liquid end (lake side) you can catch this. But we usually don’t have it there due to mosquitoes.
https://landing.homebiogas.com/bio-fertilizer/
I think the manual has a section on using and diluting the fertilizer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lfpl81CvsKxIBDQm0YeXiVQIpknu_eUv/view?usp=sharing 

Mound behind bedroom: Eventually this mounded swale-like area should become a bit more like the little terrace  between it and the wall. If we have any leftover stone (laja), maybe we can create a similar looking terrace effect? This soil came out of where we buried the compost toilet material (to the left of the bathroom), so we may need to replace some of the soil to that spot as it subsides over time.

View to Lake: As we mentioned, keeping the view to the lake open is an important feature of the property. 

I’ll make a quick sketch of a few plants to look out for and upload shortly...

I added a very poor sketch, but it shows where I planted the pacaya palms, the two naranjia, rue, flowering tobacco, lantana, and the butterfly ginger. The palms are very small and on the side are under some existing plants, so may be hard to see. These things don't have to stay where they are, I was mainly trying to save some things and/or get them out of the way of construction work. The pacaya palm that is planted between the raspberries and the fence is in that location specifically so that as it grows it becomes a natural visual privacy barrier between the upper and lower houses. 

Volunteer exchange:

1. Draw roadmap plans based on the blog posting
2. Find plants look in IMAP and Pana?
3. Add seed starters to greenhouse and teach Marina to care for them (plant 3 seeds and start fig starters)
4. Plan intensive work week for Sep 29th 
5. Test watering system

Random other tasks:

We should put skinny bamboo sticks next to all plants so nobody cuts them down
Water at night or early morning

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