By Colin Swearingen | Project Leader
I bring you an important update! The last time I wrote to you, Covid-19 was still ravaging our communities here in the United States, although vaccinations were on the rise. The intervening months have provided both clarity (all Americans over 12 have access to a vaccine) and ambiguities (how bad will the Delta variant be?), but we now have enough information to key you in on what’s going on with our trip to Honduras.
First, JCU will be going to Honduras in May 2022! This means we can start planning, fundraising, and purchasing supplies for the trip. That said, no plan is 100 percent locked in at this point: Covid is still present and doing damage.
Second, we have some friends from SUNY Fredonia and Tacoma, Washington going down to Honduras at the end of this week. They will be visiting Valle Arriba and some other nearby villages that have been provided water filters. We pray for their safety and eagerly await their update on the filters and general health of the people in these communities.
Finally, and most importantly, the vaccine is becoming more prevalent in Honduras. Cato, one of our contacts down there, reported that over 1.5 million vaccines recently arrived in the country and that 1.5 million more were expected shortly. He also stated that the staff at Nuevo Paraiso had been vaccinated and that many people in the rural areas in which we serve have received the shot(s). This is good news, indeed!
As I conclude this report, I want to lay out a little bit of a timeline related to our work in Honduras over the next few months:
Thank you for your continued generosity and support of our project to provide clean water and improved health care to people in and around Valle Arriba. Our next report will consist of the update we receive from our friends’ July-August trip.
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