Nearly two dozen Nueces Electric Cooperative employees recently completed a three-week mission to bring electricity to 152 homes across two remote villages in Guatemala.

The three-week trip wasn't about relaxation — it was about changing lives through basic amenities many people take for granted.

"To provide electricity to the houses that never had power," said Manny Piña, a journeyman lineman who has worked in the electrical business for nearly two decades. Nueces Electric Cooperative brings power to remote Guatemala villages

For Piña, traveling to Guatemala for the first time, that became a personal mission. The team wired houses, ran power lines, hung transformers and even installed streetlights in communities that had never experienced electric power.

"Because we take it for grant

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