Story and Photos courtesy of Heifer Guatemala Staff
On July 10, 2013, Heifer Guatemala Project Coordinator Gerson Coy and field technician Estuardo de la Cruz delivered agricultural seeds to Candelaria Rolando Cab, coordinator of the local Santa Ana Institute.
A week later, Mayor Nestor Caal Cac of San Antonio Senahu and a technical team in charge of the City Forest Nursery met to sign a cooperation agreement between Heifer Guatemala and the Municipality of San Antonio Senahu in Alta Verapaz.
Heifer Guatemala presented and explained its gifts, which will help establish a forest nursery. Mayor Cac was presented with mahogany forest seeds, as well as melina, palo blanco, pinus maximinoi, conacaste and cenicero trees.