110 By the lake Lago de Atitlan lies the small village of San Juan La Laguna. There you can find Asociacion Ixoqui Ajkemaa, a small organisation striving to organize and find work for Maya women. They work mainly as weavers.
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117809-109 El Senor Maximon, Solola, Guatemala, Central America