The summer trip is starting to take shape! Our small advance team has just returned from Honduras after spending a week in San Pedro Sula and La Entrada attending to all the details and logistics that go into a pulling together a safe and successful trip.
Early in the week, we met with a group of high school students that attend bi-lingual schools in San Pedro Sula. The Honduran students will act as translators and will work as members of the dental, construction, vision, and education teams. A number of the same students were with us last year and it’s gratifying to see how much they enjoyed the experience and how excited they are to join us again this summer.
In La Entrada, some of the more important tasks we needed to complete included planning out meals and housing for the two week period, identifying a meaningful construction project, inspecting dental equipment (for damage from the recent earthquake), and preparing the way for the eye team.
Finding the right construction project is particularly time consuming because we need to visit and inspect each potential construction site and have to weigh the need and benefit of each. Since the need is great in and around La Entrada, there is no shortage of projects to choose from that will directly benefit the school and the children who attend it.
Last year we added a classroom onto a public school near the Heart For Honduras campus. Olman, the sub-director at Hearts For Honduras also teaches at the public school in the morning. We stopped in to see Olman and the children during their morning session, and it was great to see the finished classroom being put to good use.
Early in the week, we met with a group of high school students that attend bi-lingual schools in San Pedro Sula. The Honduran students will act as translators and will work as members of the dental, construction, vision, and education teams. A number of the same students were with us last year and it’s gratifying to see how much they enjoyed the experience and how excited they are to join us again this summer.
In La Entrada, some of the more important tasks we needed to complete included planning out meals and housing for the two week period, identifying a meaningful construction project, inspecting dental equipment (for damage from the recent earthquake), and preparing the way for the eye team. 
Finding the right construction project is particularly time consuming because we need to visit and inspect each potential construction site and have to weigh the need and benefit of each. Since the need is great in and around La Entrada, there is no shortage of projects to choose from that will directly benefit the school and the children who attend it. 
Last year we added a classroom onto a public school near the Heart For Honduras campus. Olman, the sub-director at Hearts For Honduras also teaches at the public school in the morning. We stopped in to see Olman and the children during their morning session, and it was great to see the finished classroom being put to good use. In the photos, you can see last year’s construction team in action; Olman and and Arnie outside the finished classroom, and the children in class.
The room that was added for the dental clinic is coming along and will be fully completed by the time the set-up team arrives at the end of June and the dental team begins their work in early July. The photos of the clinic, taken from the inside and from the soccer field below, show just how close the room is to its completion.
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