Honduras Team August 2021, Day 5

Published in on August 19, 2021.
Wednesday was another day of hard work under a hot sun. It looks like we will be able to finish the projects on Thursday, and maybe have a little time left over for a Futbol game with the neighbor kids. Thursday will be our last day in El Obraje & we will be sad to […]
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Wednesday was another day of hard work under a hot sun. It looks like we will be able to finish the projects on Thursday, and maybe have a little time left over for a Futbol game with the neighbor kids. Thursday will be our last day in El Obraje & we will be sad to leave the friends we have made over the last few days.


Before lunch Pastor Alejandro took us up to the school for a tour. At the school there were a couple of medical clinics going on for the people of El Obraje. These were mission teams from other churches and organizations. There was a team of nurses from Vermont and another group called, Global Brigades. They had a dentist, vision care, and a couple of general medical clinics. There were long lines @ each clinic waiting to receive care. COR has sent several medical mission teams over the years to El Obraje, so it was interesting to get an idea of how those clinics run.


Pastor Alejandro took us for a tour through the school buildings. He told us about how Covid has impacted how they teach their students. They have approximately 360 kids, grade K – 9. Since they can’t hold in-person school than teaching happens virtually, similar to what we have all experienced over the last 18 months. If there is a phone in the student’s home they can participate in school the same way our kids do, via Zoom. Often a family of kids will have to share one phone for attending all of their different classes @ different grade levels. If the home doesn’t have a connected device, then the teacher prepares hard copy worksheets and content to send home for the children to learn on their own @ home. This means that the poorest children suffer the most and continue to fall behind in school as the pandemic rolls on.


On the way back to the Church, we were able to walk through the neighborhood where we have been serving. We saw people grinding corn, washing clothes, putting up laundry to dry in the sun, (it was 98 today!). Jason & Dan asked to take a picture of a woman who was working on her porch. She invited them in and showed them how she was husking coffee beans. It seems as if almost everything done in Honduras is done by hand.


For dinner tonight Carlos made us ribs. They were delicious. As good or better than anything you would get back home in KC.

-Tim Merchant, Team Blogger

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