Our team went to Santa Teresa de Jesus School, which was approximately 10 km from our hotel. It felt quite a bit longer because we were going up through the hills on very windy and unstable roads.Father Patrcio La Rosa, who is originally from Spain, started this school. He came to Honduras for 3 years, 23 years ago; he apparently loves it here.
The school has 1,600 students, which include 16 boys who board during the school year because it would take them 4 hours each way to walk to school. They make their own meals and help around the school grounds.
Our overseas partner, The Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa in co-operation with another Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Metropolitano—who provided 50 bedkits for today's distribution—wanted to bring together other clubs in the area to join Sleeping Children's distributions. This school is a special project for the Metropolitano Club.
There were many university students here today who are affiliated with the Rotary Club of Metropolitano who are involved in Rotaract. Rotary Clubs sponsor youth groups organized to provide community service, and are called Rotaract. Also there were youth from the Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa.
800 bed kits were distributed today, and from the smiling faces you see in the photographs, the children enjoyed their new-found articles.
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