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HONDURAS
Photo Gallery
During
medical team visits, each physician and dentist sees as many as 100 patients a day.
The porch (at left) is filled with those in line to see the doctor.
In the distance, you can see the street beyond the fence is filled with yet more people waiting their turn to move up to the porch.
Visits by your missionaries are major events in the isolated communities of Honduras. In fact, doctors must limit each patient to three complaints, otherwise the lines would never move!
Donated glasses make it possible for this gentleman to enjoy
his New Testament reading. The eye test is simple - patients try on donated
glasses until they find a pair that improves their vision.
Being unable to see properly is a major disability for those in undeveloped countries. Impaired vision can prevent one from farming effectively, which makes feeding one's family very difficult.
And buying a pair of glasses from a local physician can cost a poor farmer a year's wages. Keep this in mind the next time you throw out an old pair of glasses. Bifocals are especially needed. Dr. Henry Moore says that bifocals are gone as quickly as we offer them.
Left: EMMF Trustee Dr. Henry
Moore examines a little one as the boy's mother and a volunteer medical student
look on.
At right, Dr. Moore oversees the construction of public toilet and shower facilities, the only sanitation projects of their kind in these remote areas.
All of the children in EMMF mission
villages receive donated shoes.
Volunteer Jennifer Christain (at left) of the Texas A&M Canterbury group has a fitting session with some Honduran children.
Shoes on feet mean less injuries and contact with parasites from animal waste. For example, this young lad (at right) must care for the family livestock. He now has shoes and does not have to walk barefoot among the oxen.
Volunteer triage nurse
Heidi Von Gruenigen interviews waiting patients to decide who will be seen
first. This procedure is necessary, as those in dire need of care may be far
down the line.
Note how the folks in line have dressed up for the visiting medical team. Again, this is a major event for the villagers, so they put on their best clothes, often the only good clothes they have.
Getting clean water to
the village is a top-priority project. These local farmers donated their labor
to lay the new water line.
The success of any mission program is directly proportional to the amount of local participation.
The Episcopal Church in
Honduras IS growing!
The field, indeed, is white under the harvest!
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