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EVERETT -- Children from Faith Lutheran Church helped build a retaining wall for a Guatemalan school in danger of sliding down a steep hillside in a remote village.

Although the children of the church didn't travel to the Central American country, their efforts made a real difference there.

Each year the children raise money to donate to organizations. Last year Marco Tulio Maldonado, the Hands for Peacemaking Foundation's director in Guatemala, traveled to Everett and shared some of the needs... read more

By Julie Muhlstein, Herald Writer

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They have seen the poorest of the poor. They have seen their investments of time, money and sweat make life better for people in rural Guatemala.

For at least a dozen years, brothers Harv and Larry Jubie have joined other Everett-area volunteers on service trips to Guatemala with the Hands for Peacemaking Foundation.

"We go because we make a little difference in the world," said Harv Jubie, 69, who helped build schools during a trip to Guatemala in March.

It was the Marysville man's 13th work trip to the... read more

Harv and Larry Jubie were selected as the 2011 winners of the Aller Humanitarian Award.  The Jubies were selected for the deep committment helping people around the world.  The brothers from Marysville, Washington have traveled to Ethopia to provide polio vacanations, helped provide wheelchairs to handicapped children in Mexico and for over 10 years have built school for children in rural Guatemala. 

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EVERETT — Guatemala is thousands of miles away, but it’s much closer for Pete Kinch and other volunteers at Hands For Peacemaking Foundation.The Everett-based nonprofit organization takes groups of volunteers to work in the northwest highlands of the Central American nation.The volunteers team up with locals to install stoves, build desks and entire schools and to do other projects.Many people in the region’s remote villages have no water supply and still cook with an open fire, Kinch said. People often suffer from respiratory problems because they are forced to inhale smoke from fires.The... read more

By Julie Muhlstein, Herald Columnist

As Everett's mayor from 1990 to 1994, Pete Kinch focused on local concerns. Even then, part of his heart was in rural Guatemala.It all started with a harmonica player."Dr. Aller came to Rotary to play his harmonica and tell us about Guatemala," said Kinch, a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Everett-Port Gardner."We'd give him a check," said Kinch, 67. "He was a jovial type of guy with an infectious personality."Dr. Leeon Aller, a Snohomish family physician for many years, was 88 when he died of Parkinson's disease in 2008. Between 1985 and 1998, Aller... read more