Faces of Honduras June 23rd, 2021

Faces of Honduras.  

Wednesday June 23rd, 2021

Today was our last full day in clinic.  Tomorrow we have a half day and then pack up the clinic.  It’s all hands on deck as this is a task that takes some coordination, and organizing to make sure that supplies we are leaving are inventoried and accounted for.  


Today was a mixed bag of things for me.  I went along with the Pastor of the church with 2 other people to do home visits with the Honduran doctor who was working with us.  We visited people that were either too sick to leave or were unable to walk and get to the clinic.  The first gentleman we saw was an elderly man, almost completely blind due to glaucoma who had been abandoned by his family.  He was living alone and struggled from day to day. 


We then saw a family who had between the 6 family members; and elderly couple - one with a serious hernia, and one with Alzheimer’s disease who often wandered off, one older adult who had been having seizures since she was one year old and  also her adult son who had Down syndrome.  The only relatively healthy one in the family was one of the daughters of the elderly couple who was trying to care for them all.  


The next visit was a women with a serious hip injury - likely broken and then a women with un-treated diabetes who could not get up out of bed.  She has small children to care for and could not do it.  


There is so much more to all of the stories above.  The medical system here is not good at all, its either too expensive for medications or inaccessible for many reasons.  People often don’t seek treatment for one reason or any other, and covid has not helped that.  


I spent a little time in pharmacy that afternoon, while Josephine got to go do a few home visits and then go to the special needs school.  I think she enjoyed coloring and hanging out with the kids.  


Mike and Milton and I then had a meeting with the engineer who had drawn up plans for us for the two new feeding centers.  There is much discussion to be had over the planning of this, but it is exciting to see the future and begin planning. I sat with Milton, Lorena and Pastor after dinner to discuss our trip in November to work on construction of the new feeding center.  It’s going to be great!   


I got to hold a 5 day old baby today dressed in red.  New babies are often dressed in red in Honduras to protect them from evil spirits.  I have seen this before.  They often have little red earrings in too.  The clinic was not overwhelmed but steady.  The people we had seen today were mostly mountain people.  The church had reserved this day for them as most of them were going to be coming from at least an hour and a half away.  It is awesome that the church is able to reach out so far.  The community is growing!  


I wanted to share some of the faces of Honduras and some of the names.  These are real people, people with serious problems and health concerns, people who are desperately in need of our love and hope.  Commit their names & faces to memory and pray for them.  They need it.  

That’s all I have for tonight.  Tomorrow is expected to be busy day!  


Shelley B. 










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