Mission groups currently and upcoming in Honduras

["Marco" <hondopost@yahoo.com>]

TO:     Worldwide Honduras Network (WHN)
FROM:   Marco, projecthonduras.com

The following mission groups from the US are currently in Honduras.
Please contact them for further information.  Otherwise, pass on the
info to individuals you think may benefit from the services that are
being offered.  Thanks.

Gehlen Catholic Mission Honduras (www.gehlenmissionhonduras.org) of
LeMars, Iowa, is sponsoring a medical/dental/podiatry mission to
Honduras during January 6-17, 2005. The team has five medical doctors,
two dentists, one podiatrist, four registered nurses, two pharmacists,
and numerous translators and other support personnel. It is being
hosted and supported by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
(IHM) in the village of El Guante (near Cedros in Francisco Morazan).
This is the principle base of operations daily. A small team of all
the health disciplines is traveling to northern Francisco Morazan and
provide care to the Tolupane indigenous peoples in La Lima and La
Ceiba of Montana de Flor. The team is receiving additional support
from the School Sisters of Notre Dame Sulaco (Sulaco). Contact:
Richard Seivert, rseivert2@yahoo.com

ACTS of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana
(www.diocesewla.org) sponsoring a medical and optical clinic in
Trinidad (Santa Barbara) during January 8-15, 2005. The mission
includes three physicians, one nurse practitioner, and 20 additional
volunteers. Contact: Georgia West, gowest@kricket.net or (318)
445-9013

A medical mission team organized by The Friends of Barnabas Foundation
(www.fobf.org) of Chesterfield, Virginia, is in Honduras during
January 8-16, 2005. Contact: Don Pierce at (804) 282-3536 or Rev.
Linwood Cook, friendsofbarnabas@hotmail.com

Missoula Medical Aid of Missoula, Montana, is sponsoring primary care
medical and dental clinics in communities around San Lorenzo (Valle)
in partnership with Save The Children (www.savethechildren.org) during
January 9-21, 2005. The group is also doing OB-GYN work in the San
Lorenzo hospital. Contact: David Cates, cates@montanadsl.net 

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ProPapa Missions America ( http://www.propapa.org ) will send a
pediatric orthopedic surgical team to operate at the Leonardo Martinez
hospital in San Pedro Sula during April 3-9, 2005. The team will
provide services to children who were identified during the ProPapa
mission in September 2004. For further information, you are welcome to
e-mail Lou Cherry at lcherry@optonline.net.

Note: If you are interested in viewing an Excel spreadsheet containing
a list of "some" of the mission groups that visited Honduras in 2004,
go to http://www.projecthonduras.com/foreignmissions.xls . This is not
a complete list, by any means.  I hope to create a more compehensive
one for 2005, but for this I will need everyone's assistance.  If you
know of missions to Honduras which are scheduled for this year or
next, I would be grateful if you'd forward this info to me.  Thanks.

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There is a mission to Honduras scheduled to begin nearly every day
within the next week.  Please pass on the following information to
people you think may benefit from the services that will be provided.
 Thanks.

Franklin Noon Rotary Club (www.noonfranklinrotary.org) of Franklin,
Tennessee, will sponsor a 12-member construction mission to the
department of Choluteca during January 14-22, 2005. The team's
projects will include building a water system for approximately 52
homes just outside Concepcion de Maria, building latrines for the
public school at Nueva Choluteca, building a playground at the same
school, wirinrg a vocational carpentry school in the same area and
also wiring an early childhood development center in San Marcos de
Colon.  It will work in partnership with two and possibly three other
clubs in Rotary District 6760. Contact: Ronnie Strickland,
honduron@yahoo.com

MEDICO (www.medico.org) of Georgetown, Texas, will sponsor a mission
to Sulaco (Yoro) during January 15-22, 2005. A team of 24 volunteers
has been selected and will be providing eye, medical and dental exams.
The team, which will be hosted by Sister Fatima Carcamo, will also be
doing needs assessment on its expanded Adopt .A.Village program.
Contact: Lynda Peters, director@medico.org

Trinity Episcopal Church (www.trinitystaunton.org)  of Staunton,
Virginia, will send an 18-member mission team to Santa Rita (Copan)
during January 16-25, 2005, to complete construction of the Church of
the Holy Spirit. The team will do interior/exterior plastering, lay
floor tiles, and install the interior lighting system. Contact: Tom
Howell, hiraeth30@hotmail.com

Rotary Districts 7850 and 7870 covering all of Vermont and New
Hampshire will be sending a 60-member work team to Tela (Atlantida)
for various periods of time between January 19-February 8, 2005. The
volunteers will build a computer lab in Matute and provide eight
computers; build three classrooms at the John F. Kennedy School in
Tela, paint the school, wire the new classrooms, provide appliances
for their kitchen, and provide eight computers; building three
classrooms at the Esteban Guardiola School in Triunfo de la Cruz and
rewire the school and provide new appliances; build a new school near
Tela (the Francisco Benedith School); paint the community center in
Triunfo de la Cruz; put a new roof on the school in San Martin and
rewire the school and provide two computers; rewire the school in La
Ensenada and provide new appliances; provide electrical hook up and
electricity for the school that was built by Rotary volunteers last
year in Jazmin; and build a kitchen and provide appliances for the
Policarp Bonilla School near Tela. Additionally, schools and
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Honduras will receive
computers previously shipped. An ambulance was also provided to the
city of Choloma through the Middlebury and Colchester-Milton Rotary
Clubs by St. Michael's College (www.smcvt.edu) St. Michael's rescue
squad volunteers are currently in Choloma training their rescue squad
and will return in May. Contact: Tom Plumb, tplumb@together.net

St. Francis Episcopal Church of Temple, Texas, will sponsor a
50-member medical mission to the department of El Paraiso during
January 20-27, 2005. Contact: Bobbi Hopkins, bahopkins@hot.rr.com