 A group of three instructors and a student at Central Lakes College spent their spring break last week volunteering in Guatemala. Our AJ Feldman has more. When most people think of spring break, they think of warm weather, blue skies and fun in the sun. But for a group from CLC, it meant traveling to Guatemala to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. They send groups to developing countries to, you know, work on the Habitat mission, which is to provide everybody a decent place to live. The group built Adobe Stoves, which helps people by redirecting smoke outside of their homes. It's estimated that 52 percent of Guatemalans have suffered from respiratory disease. In half a day of a little bit of hard work, you can see that their life is going to be just a little bit different. The town we went into, some people already had smokeless stalls and they're like, others who did not are like, I want one of those because they're really, I mean, it's a big improvement in people's lives. The group was able to see the daily struggles that the locals go through and it made it that much more rewarding to know that their work was making an impact. It was really moving. I always heard about, you know, people have it worse off than we do, but I never experienced it or seen it firsthand. So, even though, you know, we spoke a different language, it was really easy to see a smile on someone's face that, and even when they're saying thank you in a language I don't understand, it's completely understandable that how much they appreciated, you know, having a stove built in half a day. Reporting in Brainerd, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. A.J. Feldman.