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| From Honduras 2008 Photo Album |
This was our final distribution day for this year in Honduras. We had 562 of your bedkits to give out to complete our target total of 5,000. The base of this distribution was Alba Nola Gunela elementary school, on the top of a hill in a barrio near the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. We had great help from our partners, the Rotary Club and its affiliate youth clubs, Rotaract and Interact. Once again, the Healthy Schools Program of Honduras provided great back-up.
During one of earlier distributions, a large group of blind children received bedkits. Today, another seven were brought. Although, naturally, the processing procedure is greatly simplified for children such as these and their companions, you have to wonder what they imagine is going on around them as they pass through a crowd of hundreds of excited kids, have their photographs taken, and then receive the large package to take home. They seemed happy enough!
We do learn something every day, even at this stage of the visit. Our leader, Harry Gauthier, takes the pictures. With groups of say ten, this involves a good deal of marshalling -- "You stand there." "You there, sit up straight." "Smile." and so on -- all in broken Spanish. We wondered why, sometimes, the kids would break up at the key moment. Today, we realized that it was when we said "Look at Harry" (in Spanish). Our Harry is only the second Harry they have come across. The other is Harry Potter who is as familiar to kids here as he is in Canada. Our Harry is not at all like his famous namesake.
Tonight, we have our wind-up discussion with the Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa. Its purpose is to go over all aspects of this year's visit to provide input for the SCAW Board's assessment of the program here.
Peter Adams
for the SCAW Honduras team
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