We coordinate four-five trips per year to Honduras. If your group would like to organize a trip on these dates or another date please contact us.
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Current scheduled trips:
November 2011 (Available for a participants) Looking for a medical person that can interview new nurse candidates (spanish speaking a plus).
Agenda (interview nurse, budget and program review meetings with villages)
Jan-Feb 2012 Group from Bethlahem PA,
Agenda (school children preperation, culinary school work)
Comments from a past attendees:
“…I just wanted to take a brief moment of time to extend my gratitude for having given me the opportunity to participate in Honduras Hope. The experience opened up my mind to the problems in the third world as well as invigorated my passion to offer assistance where I can.
This trip also gave me a much better appreciation for all that I have here. Having been back for just a few days, I have found myself on the urge of complaining about the most trivial of things, only to stop myself and think of the countless persons we encountered who will never be as fortunate as me on my worst day. Your example has also inspired me. No matter the obstacles, your commitment to Yoro, Plan Grande and San Jose never seemed to waiver. I truly learned to admire your persistence, grit and commitment and hope I can fashion similarly admirable qualities in myself someday...”
Christopher Griffen
August 29, 2009
Making new friends in Honduras
One of the best parts of my March 2010 trip to Honduras was playing ball with the younger kids in Plan Grande. Although they were all quite shy around me in the beginning, after a couple of days I became another friend to play with. We did have our troubles communicating, however, because I could not speak much conversational Spanish and they spoke no English at all. Therefore, often their attempts to talk simply confused me and I had to smile and reply with “no comprendo.” Luckily, I had brought a softball and two gloves with me. The kids at Plan Grande had never seen a softball before but picked up throwing and catching it with their bare hands quite quickly. We played catch for hours on end while laughing and saying each other’s names while we threw the ball in a circle. Over the course of two weeks, we began friendships despite the language barrier.
If you would like to go to Honduras on a Honduras Hope trip in the future, I would suggest that you be ready to break out of your shell a bit, make some mistakes in Spanish, and be open to making new friends.
Madison Hetzner, age 15