The grant proposal has finally been approved and we have begun construction!

In order to strengthen connections between the community’s needs, resources available in Honduras and a local missionary who provides project funding, I discussed with the missionary the value of sending community members to “CEASO” to receive training in sustainable building practices that could be integrated into the projects we are currently planning together in the [...]

Making connections between people and resources in Honduras – A trip to CEASO (Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Agricultura Sostenible) While working together on the park in San Lorenzo, the Episcopalian Missionary Jeannie Loving, was also working to get each house a gutter and rain barrel to collect rain water. The community is currently without a [...]

         After completing the stairs and first wall we estimated the cost of completing the remaining walls, saving enough money to build the playground equipment. We lost a lot of valuable time on the project by not receiving the promised funding for the playground equipment. (See “Creating Community Spaces in San Lorenzo [part 2]“) Much time [...]

Several months ago we completed the first phase of the park project, which was to prepare the site by digging and stacking rock walls to create the principal spaces.  (See “Creating Community Spaces in San Lorenzo [part 1])  After some time (and the rainy season) the site became a ruin. Promised funding did not arrive so [...]

In August I was finally able to go on vacation. I got scuba certified on Utila, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, spending about 6 days there then went to the Mayan Ruins of Copan in western Honduras. Go to my flickr page to view all the photos from the trip.    

July 9th marked one year since I arrived in Honduras. This was an interesting but hectic month. I had vacation scheduled at the beginning of July which was cancelled because of the current political situation. Instead I spent the month trying to get work done while constantly receiving Peace Corps updates about national curfews and [...]

In a village outside of Danlí, the community of San Lorenzo has purchased two pieces of property in the center of the small 40 family village to build a community park and community center. Focusing on the park project first, I was asked as an architect to propose different design options, and as a Peace [...]

In January I began collaborating with another volunteer, Daniel Keller, in the national park PANACAM (or Cerro Azul) outside of Siguatepeque. His counterpart organization is in charge of managing this particular national park and they are currently planning to build a bioligical research station in the forest there. Siguatepeque is about a 5 hours bus [...]