Honduras: Light Construction/Medical/Education Trip HN121020

Trip dates: October 20-27, 2012

Trip Code: HN121020

Trip Status: OPEN

Cost: $1500.00 (includes airfare, lodging and meals)

Important Dates: 

• Application/Deposit Deadline: August 20, 2012
• Child Protection Training (Required):   Click here for dates and times. 
• Trip Training (Required): Sept. 08, 2012 11:00-4:30 Leawood Campus, East Bldg, Rm. 214
• Commissioning date: Sept 08, 4:30 Firestone Chapel
• Team Debrief: TBD

Description:

Partner with the Methodist Church in El Obraje to support the community by providing clean water through filtration systems, medical care, and clean air through stove pipes for wood burning stoves. Throughout Honduras, teams will continue to develop pastors and lay leaders through adult discipleship education and curriculum.  Participants aged 16 and older are welcome when accompanied by a legal guardian.

This team will complete small construction projects to help improve the overall health of the people in the community.  The team will work alongside homeowners to install stove tops and pipes as well as water filtration systems in homes. The current stoves that are used do not have proper ventilation and have caused respiratory problems and eye infections due to smoke in the homes.  The current water is unfiltered and has caused worms and parasites in children and adults.  With the installation of the new stove top/pipes and water filtration systems, both of these problems can be alleviated.  Many of the home owners that the team will be working with are single mothers. This work will help improve community health through both prevention and education.

For interested dental professionals, there will also be a small dental team working with patients.

Teams typically stay at a lodging facility in Danali. There will be a warm welcome and food especially prepared for us.