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projecthonduras.com is an
online portal for ideas on ways to help empower the
people of Honduras. We are
also an engaged network of individuals and groups working
on grassroots responses to the country's
social and economic needs, leveraging our time, energy,
expertise, experience, creativity, talents, contacts, and
willingness--"human capital"--as catalysts for change.
Many of us are
professionals and students, self-employed, working for corporations,
organizations, governments, or attending colleges and
universities. We are a scattered and diverse body of
people who are potentially one of Honduras' greatest
assets and we are trying to come together in practical,
always positive, and enlightened ways.
The impetus for projecthonduras.com came during the summer of
1998 when
Marco, a
space analyst with an aerospace consulting firm and Paulina, a
strategic planner in the aerospace industry, met and discovered their common
interest in finding innovative solutions to Honduras' problems. The concept
for projecthonduras.com began to evolve. By the end of the
summer, Jessica had joined Marco and Paulina. They
agreed on the name and the mission, and work began on
development of the website. By the end of the year, the site was up and
our "unconventional movement" was born.
The
vision of projecthonduras.com is to create an
alternative model of development for poor countries based on locating, mobilizing, channeling,
and coordinating our human
capital rather than endlessly, mindlessly
emphasizing the need for more money. Honduras is the pilot program.
If you
are interested and would like to be a
part of what we are trying to do, please get in touch with
Marco in Washington, DC. He will answer any specific questions you
may have regarding the website and the network. Most likely, he will
suggest you read the essay at
Unconventional Movement and the Honduras This Week article
at HTW.
He will probably recommend that you
subscribe to one or more of the forums listed at
Forums.
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Michael Miller's Micah Project is helping provide a home, an
education, and leadership training to ex-street kids in
Tegucigalpa. View video
clip
of Micah's outreach to street kids. See a clip
of the garbage dump where Micah does outreach to
children who live and eat there.
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The Medical, Eye,
and Dental International Care
Organization (M.E.D.I.C.O.) of
Georgetown, Texas, and sponsors
regular medical, dental, and eye care brigades to
various areas of Honduras. See
Missions to
Honduras for a listing of hundreds of other groups that send
mission teams to the country. E-mail Lynda
Peters.
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Coffee for
a Movement
Hondo Coffee grows its own high quality, pesticide free coffee in Santa Rita de Copán. It also
buys coffee directly
from other Honduran
growers, paying them 50% more per pound than they normally receive from
brokers. The price
gives growers more income for housing, feeding and clothing their families, and it
provides "extra" funds for
sending their children to school, paying for medicines, and
contributing to community development projects such as clean water
systems. The
price is guaranteed, allowing
growers to know in advance what they will be paid for their product
and enabling them to better plan and invest in the resources
needed to produce their best coffee.
This coffee is about the finest you
will taste anywhere. Arondo Holmes is the owner of Hondo Coffee and Renerio
Gallardo is
the supervisor of their coffee finca. Arondo will donate 25% of each
sale toward the operation of our website and network. Conference
on Honduras 2008
The ninth annual Conference
on Honduras will take place in Copán
Ruinas, Honduras during October 2-4, 2008. The conference is
the premier networking event for individuals and groups engaged in projects to empower the people of
Honduras. More than 230 conferees,
representing more than 110 organizations, attend each year. ...read
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