Last night several goals/objectives were discussed, they are as follows;
- DOERS Dinner @ Solid April 19th w/ a silent auction(via local sponsors and Honduran art), casino games (researched by Lindsey), a musician (researched by Kasey), retail items from Honduras, a speech by Rob, and a possible cigar bar.
-World Water Day event March 21st (promotional ideas [...]
We didn’t get a chance to complete everything we wanted but somehow it always kind of goes that way. Our last night in Honduras we went to see old friends and bring bags of food. We got to drink water from filters that were installed years ago. The kids look a lot healthier than they [...]
We took 30,000 children’s multivitamins and 2,000 doses of albendazole to Copan, delivering them to Ellen Finn so she could distribute them through the schools she works at.
Kasey had gotten the inspiration last July to set up a feeding program at a kinder in July of 2009. She had wanted to help kids get an [...]
We arrived in Retalalheu to meet our friend Curt Bowen. He works to develop sustainable agriculture by supplying organic fertilizer and consulting to growers. We delivered 10,000 prenatal vitamins, and 900 deworming meds to him. The mission was to establish a for profit enterprise to import organic, sustainable, free trade coffee and macadamia oil [...]
Mike and Phil flew back to the US. Kasey and Rob took a back road into Guatemala first overnighting in a riparian town called Rio Dulce. The next day there was an excursion to a waterfall fed by thermal pools which cascaded into a swimming hole nestled in the jungle.
After that Kasey and Rob went [...]
Phil, my dad, Kasey, and I went to Copan Ruinas, a picturesque little colonial town outside of a spectacular Mayan ruin. The Cristo Salva dental team had just left the Happy Angels orphanage where they had given the kids stuffed toys when we showed up. Inately good at making the kids frenzied we played with [...]
January 15
Traveled to Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara which is the departemental capital. It’s a nice town up in the mountains where we’ve working for years now.
We delivered 6,000 prenatals and 1,500 deworming meds to Dr. Pineda, but the water filter fabrication site and Pure Water for the World’s project there had ended and we are [...]
Casa Aurora is an HIV/AIDS outreach program in San Pedro Sula that serves families affected by the illness with support groups, educational opportunities, counseling and medical services, transportation, and other things. We’ve been trying to help them for one year. It is a place of support and home for people with the misfortune to have [...]
January 14
We went to Lancatilla Botanical Garden outside of Tela. It’s the second largest tropical garden in the world. While there we explored the jungle. There were bamboo tunnels.
To learn more go to http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=847
January 13
With my father Michael and brother Phil in Honduras we loaded up supplies we drove to the city of El Progreso, Yoro. We came a little out of the blue to meet Anne Aleman who I’d met earlier in 2009 and works with the Parish of Las Mercedes. We drove around utterly lost for [...]
