Southland Aid Group to Go to Chiapas
Despite a recent massacre in Chiapas state, a group of volunteers will travel today to the mountainous region of southern Mexico to continue building a school for Indian youth.
An organizer for the Chiapas School Construction Teams said the group will distribute humanitarian aid and complete at least one new classroom during their weeklong visit.
“Yes, we are afraid,” Project Director Peter Brown said. “But we feel we have to go there.”
Brown, a San Diego teacher, said the volunteers believe that education of indigenous children is part of the answer to regional peace.
Brown was to meet other volunteers in Mexico City, where the group--made up of students from UC Irvine, a volunteer from Italy and students from San Diego and across the nation--was to board buses today bound for the town of Oventic.
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