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