While on a Seres community outreach trip in El Salvador recently, I had the very humbling experience of meeting someone truly inspirational and motivating. A 22yr old campesino (subsistence farmer) from a small community outside of Suchitoto, he is working to educate his community about climate change and sustainable living. His story of how he [...]

Hellooo! My name is Jasmin Wall, and I am the newest member of the Seres team. I am an Early Childhood Teacher from Byron Bay, Australia, and like most who meet Corrina I was truly inspired by the work that she is doing, and the project that she has created. The first day that I [...]

Since arriving back in Guatemala, I haven’t yet had a chance to provide a project update, and for those of you who live vicariously through the blog (we know who you are) I apologise for the lack of information. However, as they say: “no news is good news”, and even though I have only been [...]

In the last few months, I have had the pleasure of welcoming two new people to the Seres team – 2 people that, along with myself, now form the beginnings of the Seres Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee is one of the most important elements of a project such as this, and can make the difference [...]

It is Saturday night. The little numbers on the bottom right-hand side of my screen read 1:09am…again. It’s probably time I went to bed and got some sleep, as I have to be up again in 5 ½ hours, but I wonder how I’m going to shift gears: bring my brain down from trying to [...]

While wars have been fought and won (or lost), famines and times of plenty have come and gone and depression, recession or economic crises have all affected various countries at some point in time, never before in our history as a human race have we faced such an issue that will affect the lives of each and every one of us.

It’s a common situation: I am out and about – at a coffee shop, catching a bus, active loitering – and I start talking with someone new. As the script goes, we exchange pleasantries…names, where we’re from, where we are going, what we do. What we do…hmm, now that’s the one. I see it on [...]

The Capital Campaign has been launched, and Compassion Fruit Society has made an official offer to the owner to purchase the land…so what (you may ask) exactly is this land that I repeatedly refer to in these pages? It’s a good question, and one that I will attempt to answer herein. However, if you do [...]

At the beginning of 2009, as I embarked upon my solo car journey from San Francisco to Guatemala a friend handed me a book to read along the way, telling me it was a very interesting read. In all fairness, I believe that the book should have come with a warning: “you will not be [...]

I step off the plane, and start to look around – preparing myself for the reverse culture shock that I know is waiting just around the corner. It always happens, even to the most seasoned of travelers, no matter how much we prepare ourselves for it. With our heads and our hearts full of the [...]