The Plan

I made this blog many, many moons ago and have never done anything with it. Just back from a week in Honduras though, this seems like the best place to share my thoughts and some pictures from the trip. I tried to journal my thoughts for the week but there was definitely a lot going on and that didn't always happen. Nonetheless I'm going to divide my entries about Honduras into daily reflections and add to those things I do have scribbled down in my journal. And maybe I'll even keep this going afterwards.

What I Was Doing In Honduras

I know it really was not clear before I left what I would be doing in Honduras, it really wasn't even clear to me. This is because Global Water Brigades

is a long-term developmental organization that works year-round on building water projects for communities without clean water. This means that what one group is going to be doing is determined by how much work is done by groups, as well as Honduran community member, prior to the group's arrival in Honduras. When we got to Honduras the project was already 4 months in and the task we were handed was digging trenches, laying pipe, and recovering those trenches. In addition to this we were able to connect the community's first 4 (highest elevation) homes to the water line. These 4 families have never before had clean water inside their homes so this was a very exciting thing to be a part of! There are an estimated 4 months left of the project as all the rest of the community's houses must be connected to the line as the piping makes its way down the mountain.

(here I am wielding a machete to break up roots in the trenches)