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 Dominican Republic 2011 by Jordan Moody |  Dominican Republic 2011 by Jordan Moody |  Dominican Republic 2011 by Jordan Moody |  Preparations for Mother's day at San Antonio School Students learning paper quilling to make cards for Happy Mother's day. |  Preparations for Mother's day at San Antonio School |  Preparations for Mother's day at San Antonio School |  Pictures from the Dominican Republic by Jordan Moody |  Pictures from the Dominican Republic by Jordan Moody |  Pictures from the Dominican Republic by Jordan Moody |  Pictures from the Dominican Republic by Jordan Moody |  Pictures from the Dominican Republic by Jordan Moody |  Homestay - San Antonio Samuel, in front of the home. |  Homestay - San Antonio Ceneida, Carla and Nayeli (left to right) |  Children at the school in Cuellaje, Intag, working on making posters of themes learnt in english class |  Children at the school in Intag |  Poster making in english class |  |  Clouds rolling in across valley |  The mud hut in San Venancio, Cuellaje, Intag With the Omprakash Partner Sustainability Grant, Fernando and his family plan to make this traditional mud hut more comfortable for visitors to visit the San Venancio Ecoreserve in Rosario, Cuellaje in the Intag zone of Ecuador. |  Fernando in San Venancio Fernando Buitron, owner, sitting at a viewpoint in the San Venancio EcoReserve in Rosario, Cuellaje in the Intag zone of Ecuador. | 
Sandra Mercedes and Angel Flores with their children. The Flores family are hosts for volunteers choosing to work with La Loma community, whose head teacher is Cecilia Alvarez | 
Horses and mules are important in Intag for transport of people and products. Volunteers are encouraged to try horseriding, usually instructed and attended by their host family | 
Sandra A surprise birthday party! Local fiestas are what you might expect in a remote, poor community: a nice meal, followed by simple guitar music with dancing. | 
Local farmer Edi Torres and his eldest son Jason, showing off "tarzan ropes" in his family's cloud forest. Edi is a wonderfully skilled grower, who produces almost all of his family's food, and a fine, gentle teacher for volunteers who may wish to learn about local growing techniques, or simply to improve their spanish. | 
sandra Schoolroom in Rosario community, head teacher Profe Tilson. Local families are well aware that the time of "slash and burn" agriculture" is gone, and that their children urgently need to be able to compete as professionals in a much wider choice of careers. The start point in further education is the Bachillerato certificate of secondary education, for which English is an obligatory subject. But nobody here, including the teachers, can speak english....! | 
sandra breathtakingly beautiful views of the andean foothills abound in Intag | 
Curli and Michelli proudly displaying the family maize crop | 
changing altitudes in the intag valley provide a dizzying variety of climates and hence fruits and vegetables. This photo was taken lower down the valley (La Loma community), where the warm climate (altitude about 1500m above sea level) helps pineapples and other tropical and subtropical plants to thrive. | 
Maria and Guava fruit | 
view towards Cotacachi volcano | 
Sandra Carla and Niyelli, San Antonio host family, enjoying a dip in the river. | 
This is Nelson Quinchiguango, expedition leader for trips into the vast cotacachi cayapas nature reserve. If you are brave enough to venture into this unexplored wilderness, you are in good company with Nelson, as people don't come much tougher than this... | 
Sugar Cane is crushed and boiled in home made furnaces to make a delicious and surprisingly nutritious unrefined form of sugar. |  Cloudforest of Intag
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|  Intagtour, Finca San Antonio guesthouse
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