Juan Carlos Ordonez is the Food Soveirnty Facilitator for Vecinos Honduras. He has been working with the men.
The map they created of their community.
Community Health Boards made up of local volunteers plan and organize health related initiaves.
Water systems remain creative in places.
This plantain harvest will help feed the family.
Ever Perez and Manuel Castellanos
A mother guide working with the other children.
The view from Azabache
Manuel Castellanos has been with vecinos Honduras since the beginning. He has stayed on in Azabache to offer support and mentorship to the economic development groups and entrepreneurs.
Attending a workshop
A powerful mural at the vecinos Honduras office in Choluteca
(l to r) Edwin Escuto, Senia, Michael Newman and Victorino
Ever A Perez -A self taught Carpenter who was encouraged to start his own business.
Dileyla Funez, with a parent volunteer demonstrate the water collection system.
Dileyla Funez displaying the new school latrines.
A coffee cooperative pools their resources.
Full mural the the Chulateca office
Mapping the community if an important step in identifying strenghts and needed focus.
A few members of Empresa Campesino Union and Esfuerzo Collective.
At the meetings health education occurs.
A silo for storing corn kernels.
Regular monthly meetings allows volunteer monitors to weigh and measure the local infants and observe for malnutrition or disease.
This strain of beans they have been working on is very abundant.
The farmers group in El Chaparral.
Diverse planting increase sustainability, output and help the soil.
The meeting is about to begin in El Chaparral.
Improved stoves make a world of difference for women, their families
and the environment.