Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're on, Ted! The next trip to Honduras is August 13-22. It will be a building trip, not a medical one. Our medical brigades have visited the tiny community of Estanzuela, near the border with Guatemala, and provided basic health care for the 50 families of Chorti Maya people who live there. They have a Heifer Project of cattle that is very successful, but the families' main need now is housing. They now live in one-room mud huts with thatched roofs. We plan to build three-room concrete block houses with tin roofs. The community has already started on the foundations for all 50 houses and are making the concrete blocks themselves. The community will finish all 50 houses before anyone moves in and the houses will be assigned by a lottery. The group that is going includes several contractors and we will be taking our own tools and buying some there. Nobody needs any specific skills because we'll spend a lot of time mixing mortar and making rebar. Anybody can do it. This trip will be different because Estanzuela is just a few miles outside of the tourist town of Copan. Our group will stay in a nice hotel in Copan with hot water and good food. One day will be spent touring the Mayan ruins of Copan - one of the most beautiful of the Mayan ruins in Central America. Everybody on this trip is paying $2000 which includes airfare from Charlotte, room and board and transportation for 9 days, and $800 to pay for one house. Anybody who is interested should get in touch with me ASAP so I can arrange flights and rooms. The next medical brigade will be to Guatemala in September, but that trip has been planned for a year and is full. The next medical brigade to Honduras will be tentatively June 17-26, 2005. The way we work the funding is that you pay one third, your church or sponsors pay one third, and our presbytery pays one third. It ends up costing around $2100, including airfare from Charlotte, lodging and food and transportation for 9 days in Honduras and medical supplies, so you would pay around $700 yourself and find a sponsor or church to pay $700. Normally we require that all of the participants of trip be able to meet together once a month for 6 months before the trip to get to know each other and learn about the country and culture of the people we will be visiting. I'm sure that could be done by e-mail instead. We always need medical people to volunteer, but will take lay people, too, who will learn to take blood pressures and give out medicines. If you are still interested and those dates fit your schedule, let me know so I can start planning. Thanks for your willingness to help! Tina At 07:25 PM 7/10/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Tina said: > > >>> Want to go? I'll take anybody, anytime.<<<< > >OK kid yer on! Let's talk and I'll donate whatever material I shoot to your >organization for promotion, wherever whenever. >And I'll pay all my own way! let's talk. >ted > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.workbookstock.com http://www.newscom.com http://www.americanphotojournalist.com