A Republic of China mission in Guatemala has won the appreciation of the Central American nation by offering training programs to people living in remote areas of the country, sources at the ROC Embassy in Guatemala said Tuesday. ROC Ambassador to Guatemala Adolfo Sun said the idea of offering training classes on bamboo growing and high mountain vegetable cultivation to help improve incomes in remote areas came from his visit in July to Huehuetenango Province in the west of Guatemala. During the visit, he exchanged views with Congressman Mirza Judith Arreaga and local officials on the proposed programs. Arreaga then led the mayors of nine cities in the province on a visit to Taiwan in August to get to know about its political, economic, agricultural and urban development. ROC embassy officials, the Taiwanese mission and a trade service delegation continued to visit cities in the province to learn about the area's agriculture, production and distribution, as well as training facilities for women. Sun donated a container-load of organic fertilizer to impoverished farmers in Huehuetenango on behalf of Taiwan's Beverly and Victor Co. Oct. 30. The mission then offered high mountain vegetable cultivation classes in the province's Chimatenango vegetable cultivation training center and a bamboo cultivation and forestation program at its Cuyuta bamboo artifact training center. Arreaga and the city mayors expressed appreciation for Taiwan's assistance, saying that the training programs are a good way to help people out of poverty and expressing hope that they can continue. 