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Giving Villagers A School

On The Spark from WMRA: Beth Neville fell in love with San Mateo Ixtatán, a  Chuj-Maya speaking town in the most mountainous part of Guatemala. The Charlottesville-based non-profit which Beth started helped the town get its first high school.  Celebs like Tom Wolfe have helped the Ixtatán Foundation effort.

Here is a Spark web-extra.
 

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Marth Woodroof has retired from WMRA and is now spending her time as a full-time writer and published author.
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