Mexico
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Mexico
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| This and the next picture are from inside the cave looking out. | This little Tarahumara girl was standing at the entrance of the cave. | ||
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| We hand to see the balancing rocks. Nobody stood on this one. | |||
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| We went to a nearby Tarahumara school, run by the government. Families are offered food in exchange for allowing their children to attend. Also the children are fed while there. Some children are from nearby, but for those who come some distance, there are beds and they live there during the week, returning home on weekends. | The children were cute and friendly. | ||
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| Inside the dorm, work assignments are posted on this board. | These children looked well cared for and healthy, except for a runny nose of two. Some of the Tarahumara further out in the wilderness are not as lucky. The death rate for children under 5 or 6 is 50%. You can, as of this writing in March of 2004, cause a minute of free hospital care to be donated to the Tarahumara children by clicking on www.giveaminute.org and then on "Give a Minute" on the left of the page. | ||
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| From the school we went to see a nearby church. Oswaldo, our guide, said that the Tarahumara hold their ceremonies outdoors, so this church was built with a large courtyard in front so that charch services and celebrations could be held there rather than indoors. |
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