In Honduras Again!!

Hi Guys!!

Guess what?? I'm in Honduras aaaaa
gaaaa
annnnn. Yup, we had a workshop at Los Pinos for the representatives of the villages where we will be putting filters. The "Health Promoters" will go back to the villages and begin the process of promoting the concept of BioSand filters and we will be building them real soon in Santa Fe.

We also had some people from another organization called Pure Water for the World attend. They have been putting filters into use here for some time now and we have received a lot of help from them. They are more than willing to share their experience and so in return we invited them to participate in the training, and they sent 5 people. It's great to cooperate with other organizations that are after the same thing we are. Although they are a secular organization, their goals are very similar to ours.

The young lady who put on the training is from the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) in Calgary Alberta Canada. You talk about a lady that has it together! Andrea Roach did an awesome job of presenting the material in a relevant and entertaining way. Everyone had a wonderful time and the fact that she is fully bilingual added very much to the value and ability of the villagers to understand the concepts presented. She is obviously passionate about the work she is engaged in and truly enjoys the people she is working with. She has an awesome story to tell about how she came to be working at CAWST and sometime soon I'll probably tell that story. Andrea is the one holding Yoda. Andrea, YOU ROCK!!!

I have other stories to tell about this trip but I have the feeling I will be presenting some things when I get back, and I don't want to let the cat out of the bag just yet.

We were used of God again today in a near miss. We were traveling from one of the villages back to Tegucigalpa for meetings on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and a pickup nearly hit us head on. He corrected at the last second over correcting and rolled the truck. A passenger and a young girl were trapped in the vehicle, and fortunately we were able to get them both out.

The driver and the passenger were unhurt but the young lady sustained cuts and bruises and Dr. Daniel Bell (our boots on the ground in Honduras) patched her up and stopped the bleeding until the ambulance could get there. As in all parts of the the world the highways are dangerous places.

I'll be returning home this Friday and I have all kinds of stories and pictures and news to tell 'yall about. Those of you who want to hear 'em will have the opportunity and those of you who don't want to hear 'em will have the opportunity to hear 'em too!


See ya later this week!!

Jalu!! (That's Salvadoran for aloha!! Thanks Andrea!)

-Tom