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Volunteer Feedback from Honduras

I had the best time of my life. All the people around me were amazing and the family that I lived with were extremely hospitable.  The website and resource guide really did cover everything that we would encounter and more. Nick and GVN both stayed in close contact with us.

Once I was in the country I felt totally safe and informed. Nick and his family seemed to care about our well-being very much and he was constantly in touch with us, handling whatever needed to be done. The best part about living in the third world was going about life the way the locals know it, and just going with the flow and seeing where it takes you.

- John

It was very rewarding ,but it was devastating to the condition of the place and of the children. The children walk around with dirty cloth, leaky dippers and lice. We deloused the children and bathed them, bought clothes, towels, soap, and redid their play area with all new things and painted the outside of the building with colorful designs. I pray that the volunteers to come continue that task that the children need so desperately.

- Maricruz

So this first month has been amazing…  Still working at the infant centre and the children are still as cute as ever, but they CRAVE attention like you’d never believe so they always manage to keep me on my feet!!   I went up to the building site yesterday to actually help build – as opposed to just watching – and it was so much fun!!   Got muddy as anything and when we got home I found out that we had no water or electricity!!  So that was an experience!!!!

- Clare

I was a full-time medical volunteer at the Hospitál in Gracias, Honduras.  My daily routine involved a lot of hard work... but was fun, exciting, and one of- if not the, best learning experience I have ever had.  At any given moment I could be in labor and delivery, suturing complex lacerations, evaluating trauma patients, or performing surgery in the OR.  I loved every minute of my experience and would do it all over again without hesitation.  To be able to serve and connect with such a warm and deserving community was priceless.  Gracias is where my heart is; it is where I will return. 

- Stephanie

Since it’s my last full week here I’ve been really busy with working on the houses and with the kids, trying to fit in time for my host family and getting to know the volunteers.  We are putting the roof on one of the houses right now and that takes a lot of work which is great and the other house we will be putting the roof on next week.  Its a lot of heavy lifting and digging holes so that we can make more mud, but I love at the end of the day how exhausted I am and how my arms always hurt the next day! 

The child care centre is a lot of fun. Yesterday I played soccer with the kids for about 2 hours they’re pretty good for being 6-10 years old.  Its always fun to take pictures at the care centre because the kids love to look at themselves.  Tomorrow will be my last day at the care centre because I leave Monday at 2 right after construction.  It’s going to be hard saying goodbye to all the children. 

- Autumn

Today marks a week since my first day in construction. The cool thing is that the methods are pretty sustainable/eco-friendly/green/whatever you want to call it. Our current duties involve the following: walking down the hillside to dig up some good clay dirt stuff, carrying large bags of said dirt back up to the building site, mixing this dirt into a fine mud mortar (thank god for that newly installed water spout nearby!), and moving bricks from the brick pile to be placed by Eusebio, the mastermind of construction.

That’s another cool thing: the projects are all locally managed and driven. Some part of the family is usually out there working alongside us. So our job is simply to speed up the projects by providing unskilled labour to be used by their expertise.

- Ryan