Explore Honduras August 2013 Brigade Honduras

Start Date: Aug 10, 2013 12:00 AM
End Date: Aug 17, 2013 12:00 AM

Volunteers on the Explore Honduras Brigade spend eight days in a rural community of Honduras. Volunteers will have the chance to learn about and experience a Microfinance & Public Health Brigade. The first 3 days of the brigade will be focues on Microfinance. Durign these 3 days, volunteers divide into groups where they visit several families in their homes. During the community visits, volunteers develop an understanding of the families’ ways of life, aspirations, and financial literacy. On the Public Health portion of the brigade volunteers spend 3 days improving basic home infrastructure and providing health education to help reduce the incidences of life-threatening, but preventable, diseases in a rural community. Students will work side-by-side with community members and local masons, volunteers construct five infrastructure projects meant to improve the health of the home and surrounding environment: eco-stoves, latrines, showers, pilas (water storage units), and concrete floors.