Coffee is the major export, followed by sugar and bananas.
Ranging in age from 29 to 77, we came from all over the United States and all sorts of vocations. Each of us had defined our own personal goals and reasons for going to Guatemala. Based in Americus, Georgia, Habitat will build its 1,000,000th home this year. Guatemala was chosen because of the overwhelmingly poor housing. The housing we saw consisted of bamboo-framed houses with mud walls.