Thirty-six students and eight staff members from Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University are stranded in Guatemala. The South American nation closed its borders to travellers over the weekend, trapping the students who arrived in Guatemala during the first week of January. “We have a small lot.
The house is big so accommodations are fine, food is great but we are confined into this area,” says Aaron Doerksen, an 18-year-old student at the Canadian Mennonite University.
Doerksen and the 35 other students are in Guatemala as part of CMU’s Outtatown Discipleship School. The majority of the students reside in Manitoba and Ontario, but CMU says some of the stranded students call anywhere from B.C.