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Linda Tilton

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Honduras, 2005

Released on 06/21/2005

June 4 - 12, 2005

Purpose of the trip: To provide basic medical care and make improvements to the medical clinic building. We were based in Rio Chiquito and worked in three surrounding villages.

Offical name: Republic of Honduras
Capital: Tegucilgaipa
Size: About the size of Tennessee. Honduras has 18 Departments (states).
Population: 6.8 million
Language: Spanish, Carib, indigenous languages
Currency: The Lempira. It is named after a Honduran Indian chief who lived from 1499-1537.
Notes come in denominations of 500, 100, 50, 20, 10 and one.
Coins come in .50, .20 and .10 centavos.
Education: Many children go to school from kindergarten to 6th grade. Others may go on to 9th grade.
Time zone: GMT -6. They do not observe daylight savings time.
Average age: 19
Life expencancy: 66 years

My first view of Honduras. Below are plaintain plantations. (click to enlarge) Our arrival in San Pedro Sula. Most of our luggage contained medication and medical supplies. Photo by Carla Aday (click to enlarge) Our American team. Photo by Carla Aday. (click to enlarge) In Rio Chiquito we were greeted by this guy and his monkey. When we asked the monkey's name, he responded, A city limits sign for Rio Chiquito (click to enlarge) A city street in Rio Chiquito. All of the roads are dirt. The only paved road in Rio Chiquito was the hightway running from Guatamala to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (click to enlarge) A typical house. (click to enlarge) A log cabin. Most of the homes have dirt floors and no electricity. The women do laundry on washboards. People get around by foot, bicycle or horseback. It's like the U. S. in the turn of the last century! Photo by Lauren Weinhold-Fuller (click to enlarge) A wooden house. Photo by Lauren Weinhold-fuller (click to enlarge) A rural home outside of Rio Chiquito. This home had a gove of lime trees behind it. (click to enlarge) The kitchens were generally outside and were fueled with wood. (click to enlarge) Women in small villages in Honduras generally don't have washing machines. They use a bucket of water, a stick of soap and a washboard. Several women patients that we saw came with complaints about neck and shoulder pain from washing clothes by hand. (click to enlarge) Here was our shower and toilet. The left side was our shower. It was a pvc plastic pipe with no showerhead. The right side was the toilet. (click to enlarge) Taking a one hour nap in the early afternoon is common in Honduras. Here is a hut with a hammock in our neighbor's backyard. (click to enlarge) Milk is delivered in steel containers by horseback. (click to enlarge) A cattle drive. Photo by Lauren Weinhold-Fuller (click to enlarge) Another cattle drive along the international highway that runs from San Pedro Sula, Honduras to Guatemala. Photo by Lauren Weinhold-Fuller (click to enlarge) Horses, bicycles, and walking are the main forms of transportation in Rio Chiquito. (click to enlarge) A young girl waiting to visit the physician to treat the scabies on her face. Scabies are tiny insects that live and breed inside the skin. If left untreated it can be fatal. (click to enlarge) A taxi cab in Ruinas de Copan. (click to enlarge) Me doing the Photo by Phil Lile (click to enlarge)" VSPACE="5" HSPACE="5">