Junior Molly Marx plays with a girl at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Los Gozosos is an orphanage and school for special needs children.

Twenty-three students and two teachers hiked around San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala shortly after arriving March 13. The group spent spring break building stoves and chicken coops and visiting the sick and schoolchildren in the city while staying at The Carmelo de Nazareth Convent.

Twenty-three students and two teachers hiked around San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala shortly after arriving March 13. The group spent spring break building stoves and chicken coops and visiting the sick and schoolchildren in the city while staying at The Carmelo de Nazareth Convent.

Sophomore Maddie Young and counselor Erin Stein run together through San Andrés Itzapa before breakfast March 14.

Seniors Sophie Nedelco and Lisbeth Juarez-Lopez mix cement to help build a stove for a family in San Andrés Itzapa.

Junior Emma Kurtz dumps buckets of dirt into the stove before starting to build the stovetop in San Andrés Itzapa March 14.

Junior Lydia Allegri gets her hair braided and wrapped by a girl selling woven jewelry at the convent in San Andrés Itzapa.

Juniors Liz Hayes and Caroline Lawlor pose with girls while visiting a school for special needs children. The children performed songs and dances to welcome the service trip group made up of 23 students and two teachers.

Junior Liz Hayes dances with one of the boys at the school for special needs children in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala on March 15.

Senior Aree Tomes talks to a blind boy at a school for special needs children in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala on March 15. After watching the children perform, the mission trip group split up and visited different classrooms, singing songs and coloring with the children.

Junior Emma Kurtz blows bubbles with a boy at a school for special needs children in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala. The mission trip group organized packs to give to the children that included a t-shirt, bubbles, crayons, coloring books and other supplies.

Sophomore Lexi Smith celebrates after her team scored a goal during the soccer game in San Andrés Itzapa March 16.

Juniors Gracie Snider, Ali Odermann and Maddie Young pet a boxer puppy at the orphanage for special needs children, Los Gozosos, while waiting for the children to come outside March 17.

Juniors Esobel Moore and Emma Kurtz peel the shells off beans from a field of plants. The beans would eventually become coffee beans, but they are not harvested in Guatemala because Brazil dominates the coffee industry. The service trip group explored San Andrés Itzapa shortly after arriving there March 13.

Sophomore Lexi Smith lets a girl at Los Gozosos play with her arms March 17. Los Gozosos is an orphanage and school for special needs children.

Senior Aree Tomes holds a girl at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala March 17.

Junior Gracie Snider and her mother, Mona Snider, swing with a girl at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala March 17.

Senior Sam McDonough swings with a girl at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala March 17.

Junior Caroline Lawlor pets Goldie, a dog at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala.

Juniors Lydia Allegri and Esobel Moore sit with a girl at Los Gozosos in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Los Gozosos is an orphanage and school for special needs children.

After arriving in San Andrés itzapa, Guatemala, sophomores Maddie Young and Lexi Smith take a selfie in front of the statue at the center of the town March 13.

Senior Sam McDonough runs with Tony’s son, Ricky, as they hike around San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala. Tony helped the service trip group as a translator.

Juniors Ali Odermann, Lucy Stofer, Abby Smith and Gracie Snider pose on the roof of the Carmelo de Nazareth convent as they enjoy the sunrise March 18.

Senior Maya Visesio deals out cards during free time before Mass at the convent March 17.

Senior Sam McDonough visits with the children at Los Gozosos orphanage in Chimaltenango, Guatemala March 17.

Spanish teacher Leah LaFaver holds a girl at Los Gozosos orphange in Chimaltenango, Guatemala March 17.

Junior Gracie Snider’s mother, Mona Snider, junior Abby Smith and translator Luis Sandoval Aleman play in the soccer game March 17.

Senior Maya Visesio and translator Pablo Tagual walk back to the middle of the field after their team scored a goal.

Junior Hannah Hawver plays in the soccer game during the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala March 16.

Junior Ali Odermann plays in the soccer game during the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala March 16.

Junior Gracie Snider plays in the soccer game during the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala March 16.

Seniors Lisbeth Juarez-Lopez and Maya Visesio, sophomore Lexi Smith and junior Mackenzie Hutcheson play in the soccer game during the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala March 16.

Senior Maya Visesio plays in the soccer game during the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala March 16.

Juniors Esobel Moore and Hannah Hawver play with Eddy’s granddaughter at the convent after returning from building stoves in San Andrés Itzapa March 15.

Junior Marielle Allen rides a horse after building a stove for a family in San Andrés Itzapa March 15. The horse belonged to Eddy, the mason.

Junior Emma Kurtz rides horse after building a stove for a family in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala. The horse belonged to Eddy, the mason.

Junior Liz Hayes rides a horse after building a stove for a family March 15. The horse belonged to Eddy, the mason.

Junior Lydia Allegri rides a horse after building a stove for a family March 15. The horse belonged to Eddy, the mason.

After a fire was set under the stovetop, a woman watches as smoke successfully rises out of the chimney. After the mortar dries between the stove bricks, the mason will go back and add another piece to the chimney to allow the smoke to flow out of the roof. The black soot covering the walls indicates that this family’s earlier methods of cooking did not allow the smoke to be ventilated out, sickening the woman pictured.

Father Sunoj Thomas poses with his bracelet made for him by girls that were selling woven jewelry at the convent. Throughout the week, Father Thomas insisted on being called “Padre Swag” while joining the groups visiting the sick, building chicken coops and stoves and playing with special needs schoolchildren and orphans. He led daily Mass at 6:15 p.m. in a mixture of Spanish and English.

Father Sunoj Thomas and sophomore Maddie Young pose with Madre Marina Prado at the Carmelo de Nazareth convent in San Andrés Itzapa.

While on the spring break service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala, a group finishes building their chicken coop by stapling the chicken wire around the sides.

Alumna Maddie Young ’18 nails the roof onto the chicken coop March 15, 2018 during the service trip to San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala.

Junior Emma Kurtz holds the wood steady as her group builds a chicken coop March 15.

Junior Abby Smith plays with a girl from one of the families for whom she was helping build a stove March 14.

Junior Rachel Doctor plays with a girl from one of the families for whom she was helping build a stove March 14.

Twenty-three students and 2 teachers traveled to San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala over spring break to build stoves and chicken coops for the community. On the first day, March 13, they were lead on a tour of the town by one of the translators helping the group.