Casa Hamaca Guesthouse: a convienent and comfortable base for volunteer mission work in the Yucatan of Mexico. God did not call you to be canary-birds in a little cage, and to hop up and down on three sticks, within a space no larger than the size of a cage. God calls you to be eagles, and to fly from sun to sun, over continents. Henry Ward Beecher

Casa Hamaca and Mano Amiga can facilitate your mission trip to the Yucatan

Individuals, couples, families and small groups Year around Short term or longer Roof construction, food distribution, medical missions, education, ESL, and more. All ages welcome. Development... Aid... Relief Powerful, safe, cost effective. Over 17 years of mission experience in the Yucatan

The Opportunity
If you've ever thought about doing mission work or volunteer work in a foreign country, here is your opportunity. You can bring a smile to a sick child, some food to a hungry baby or put a dry roof over an extended family. You don't need lots of special skills, you don't need extended training, you don't need to learn another language. You already what it takes to accomplish much. You need a willing heart, the ability to sweat a little and a small amount of money. Worthwhile projects can be completed in as little as a day.

The Yucatan is close in distance to the USA and Canada, so that makes getting here easy. But the Yucatan is very distant in time from our familiar surroundings; many people in the small villages live almost exactly the same way their ancestors lived a thousand years ago...in thached-roof houses with three stones on the floor for the fireplace and a small round table...that's the entire kitchen for an extended family.

The Needs
The area surrounding Valladolid is filled with small Mayan villages where many services are lacking. Many of the men in these small villages work in the fields as subsistence farmers...that means that there is little or no cash income for the household. They till the soil just as their ancestors did...using slash and burn agriculture techniques. And making a hole in the earth with a sharp stick in which to drop some seeds. No tractors; no plows. And that means that such necessities as doctors and dentists and medicine are sometimes just out of reach. Roofs are often leaky thatch or treated cardboard or laminated asbestos. None of them stand up well to hurricanes or tropical rains. Because many of the people are subsistence farmers, they eat what they can grow. And if the crop is bad there may not be enough to eat. And even if the crop is good, there are many needed things that cannot be grown...that they need money to purchase...matches, soap, cooking oil, etc.

Kinds of Projects
Roof construction projects
Food distribution
English language classes (ESL)
School supplies distribution
Medical missions:
ranging from primary care to dentistry to hearing tests.
Bible study
Bible distribution
Quilting/Sewing Workshops and Classes
Work with special needs children
Work with disabled children and adults
Women's Support Groups
Recycling Programs

If you do have specialized skills that you would like to put to use
drop us an email and lets discuss the possibilities.

Programing:
If you already have programing, we'll help you accomplish your goals. If you need help putting your program together, we can help you.

You determine your work load and your budget
For groups larger than about 35 people, we suggest that you contact Mano Amiga directly.
They can work with groups up to about 85 people.

Casa Hamaca staff can help you help others
Our staff has over 20 years of experience volunteering or facilitating other volunteers and mission workers in Spanish-speaking areas in Peru, Honduras, Belize and various parts of Mexico including the Yucatan and Quintana Roo as well as volunteer groups in the US.

Many mission workers come with the intention to help or "fix" a problem in the Yucatan, and they find when they have returned home that they are the ones who have been helped, they have been "fixed", they have a clearer, stronger, deeper and more meaningful relationship with their God.

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