Photo Gallery

Silent auction fund-raiser

The event took place at Finca La Azotea on February 28th, 2008

Coban, 15 June 2008 (3 photos)

(left to right) Erwin Molina, Cacao Co-operative member, Aproba-Sank (Asociacion Pro-Bienestar en Accion (Association for Well Being in Action) Saaq Aach'ool Nimla K'aleb'al (Harmony in our Communitiy)); Corinne Willock, President/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya, Vera Richardson, Manager-ChocoGuateMaya, Teoodoro Maaz, Cacao Co-operative member, Asodaj (Asociacion Para El Desarollo Agropecuario Julha. C.S.M.S.CH.AV.).
(2) Teoodor Maaz, Cacao Co-operative member, Asodaj.
(3) Erwin Molina, Cacao Co-operative, Aproba-Sank.

Coban, 14 June 2008 (3 photos)

(1)(2) (left to right) Justino Peck, Chairman Toledo Cacao Growers Association, Belize; Vera Richardson, Manager-ChocoGuateMaya; Corinne Willock, President/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya, Armando Choco, Manager, Toledo Cacao Growers Association, Belize; Jose Fernando Caal, Treasurer-ChocoGuateMaya
(3) Armando demonstrating cacao grafting.

Derek Steele's Centro de Ideas Antigua,
4 April 2008

(1) (left to right) Victor Diaz, young local farmer and community leader in Chocola; Anne Kraemer, graduate student Anthropology/Archaeology, Chocola Ethnologist; Corinne Willock, Presiden/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya; Rodolfo Fito Paiz Andrade, President and Otoniel Gamboa, Regional Director for Alta Vera Paz, Comision Presidencial Para El Desarrollo Local; Dr. Alberto Rivera (standing).
(2) (left to right) Victor Diaz, young local farmer and community leader in Chocola; Derek Steele, President/Founder Centro de Ideas, a founder of CentroGSI ( a leading research company in Central America), on the Board of Trustees of the Guatemala Development Foundation, FUNDESA; Rodolfo Fito Paiz Andrade, President and Otoniel Gamboa, Regional Director for Alta Vera Paz, Comision Presidencial Para El Desarrollo Local; Anne Kraemer, graduate student Anthropology/Archaeology, Chocola Ethnologist; Corinne Willock, President/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya.
(3) Richard Rotter (left), President of Pilones de Antigua; Erich Eger (right) Member-Semillas Para el Futuro, Cacao Specialist for the Presidential Commission for Local Redevelopment of Guatemala.
(4) Patricia Hempstead, Member-Semillas Para el Futuro; Thomas T. Reiley, MD, Treasurer-Amigos de Chocolá, Member-Earthwatch Chocolá in 2005.

Chocola Event, 23 February 2008

(1) Chocola Event, San Pablo Jocopilas, Suchitepequez, Guatemala, C.A.
(2) (left to right, seated) Earl de Berge, Chairman of SMPAC; Manuel Franscisco Cano Alfaro, Biologist, Member-ChocoGuateMaya Corinne Willock, President/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya.

Cacao Festival, 24 November 2007

(1) Poster
(2) Corinne Willock, Presiden/Founder-ChocoGuateMaya, and Edgar Sacayon Madrigal, Vice President-ChocoGuateMaya.
(3) Blessing ceremony with musician Ranferi Aguilar
(4) Ranferi Aguilar El Hacedor de Lluvia, and group
(5) Asodaj friends from Chisec, Alta Verapaz, and their chocolate products.

23 June 2007 (4 photos)

visit to Sepoc II, Chisec, Alta Verapaz (1,2,3)
Jose Fernando Caal, Treasurer-ChocoGuateMaya, with cacao farmer at Sepoc II, Chisec, Alta Verapaz (3).

Chisec 2006 (3 photos)

In 2006 it was through Brian Smith of Aproba-Sank (Asociacion Pro-Bienestar en Accion (Association for Well Being in Action) Saaq Aach'ool Nimla K'aleb'al (Harmony in our Community)), that we first made contact with Sepoc II, Chisec, Alta Verapaz.