Carol in Honduras

Last day in Honduras. The task of the day was to check out the eye clinic in El Progresso on my way to San Pedro Sula. It was impressive. What dedication it must take to build a clinic, supply it with the equipment to do specialty exams and surgery and staff it. The administrator gave us a complete tour. The pediatric ophthalmologist will be there in June and the goal is to have our three children travel to the clinic to have cataract surgery during that week.

Adios los ninos de El Chilar.
Good bye children of El Chilar…..see you in February!

In the country…….north of Copan. Ellen, her assistant Marel, Aden, and I visited a couple of communities/schools today.

The day was such fun, the roads were not. These communities are so poor that any small thing is received with incredible gratitude and enthusiasm. We gave out bags of trail mix and Ellen gave each child one marble (they were so excited)!

Tomorrow I’ll go with World Vision to visit the families of the children that need eye surgery
I was invited to go to another community with Ellen where there are many concerns. We plan to investigate the teachers idea of starting a poultry project with the children and take these stools that I bought today for the Kinder that needs furniture.

They are such fun stools-sturdy and colorful

Now I know what it means to be here in the middle of rainy season!

I am so frustrated with cars breaking so we can’t go to the communities, with roads and rivers flooding and today with the five hour drive that accomplished nothing. We went to visit the children that needed eye surgery and the one girl was not the one with cataracts and her vision was fine…..and the other house we couldn’t get to because it was pouring rain and the long hill we would have to walk up was as slippery as ice.

I did stop at El Malcote (our first classroom) for a quick hello to the kids and teachers.

I’ve prepared for a trip with Ellen tomorrow. I’ve bought little stools for a kinder that needs furniture, and made up little bags of trail mix for the kids. Hope that trip goes a lot better than the one today.