Honduras Day 4 Feb 2011

Honduras Day 4 Feb 2011

It was another stunningly beautiful day in Honduras! Up on the mountain where we are staying it has been damp and cool, which is great eating and sleeping weather, but once we go down into the city and other areas, the sun warms us as the temperature reaches right around 80. It is very pleasant.

Today we spent all day working on a water treatment system at a school right across the road from the Tegucigalpa dump. We got along really well and will finish the job tomorrow. Part of the reason things went so well today was the help of Jose. He is the maintenance man at the school, and he was very eager to help. He and I spent a lot of time talking, exploring each other’s language. He had a great sense of humor.

The school is very interesting. It is Christian ministry directed toward kids whose parents work at the dump. It started out as a group of Christians gathering the kids at the dump to teach them, then they moved their classes to a tree across the road, and then eventually, about 10 years ago, built a few classrooms. The kids are allowed to attend for free. Education is expensive in Honduras. Many students do not receive an education because they can’t afford it. The kids in this school were working in the dump alongside their parents before this ministry began. The school will graduate their first class this year.

Most of the parents of the students work in the dump, making a little more than $1 per day. I will have a lot more to say about the dump tomorrow. We are going there to help feed people. It is the most disturbing place I have ever been.

We are having a great time and feel like we are accomplishing a lot of good things. Purifying water, today’s activity, is very important. The people here have so many stomach problems, mostly do to the water.

Thank you for your continued prayers!