Opportunity to Excavate Mayan Ruins - Volunteer Program

Well, it’s been awhile since I updated my blog here, but I am still in Belize and am enjoying myself very much working on the Better In Belize Project.

Already quite awhile ago I discovered what I thought looked like a Mayan mound or pyramid on the Better In Belize ecovillage property. I didn’t post about it because I wasn’t sure at first, but after getting a guy from the archeology department to look at it and verify it, which led me to search the surrounding area for more ruin evidence. This led me to discover a series of tiered walls near the main pyramid.

The pyramid, which I had at first thought to be a small structur on a hill turns out that it may in fact be the hill itself. We need to do some excavation to find out more.

That’s partly why I have recently setup a volunteer program to help with building the ecovillage, organic farming, the eco-school, and excavating and restoring the Mayan ruins.

Our team has acquired a house in Benque Viejo, across the street from the BenqueHouse Guesthouse that I am currently staying at. This house is a large 4 bedroom, with a kitchen, living room, bathroom, outdoor shower, and small yard. It is across the street from the riverfront park, and we are making this our volunteer headquarters.

The volunteer program costs $97/week, or $250/month to come down and help us out in organic farming, permaculture development, archeological excavations on the Mayan site, and eco-technology setups for the ecovillage.

The cost includes a bunk accommodation in shared rooms in the volunteer house, as well as basic training for whatever tasks we put you to work on. We are looking at this time for anyone interested in being a volunteer coordinator to help us with the management and organization of this volunteer program.

I’m really looking forward to when the first volunteers arrive, as the volunteer house is empty and waiting. We have only just started the program and have had quite a bit of interest thus far with many applications coming in. Yet most people are planning to come within the next 3 months, and we still have plenty of room for volunteers now and in the coming months.

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer, or in the Better In Belize ecovillage in general can email me at: jambhala (at) BetterInBelize.com

I hope to see you down here sometime.

~Jam