Our work was in the village of San Isidro, one and a half hours drive from Honduras' second largest city of San Pedro Sula. We worked on fifteen houses being constructed under Habitat for Humanity's regional program. Our arrival was celebrated in the local evangelical church, where we met the families we would be working with. The following day we began assisting in the construction by setting up scaffolding, crafting re-bar reinforcement, mixing mortar and laying cement block. It was hot and humid, with the temperature hovering around 104 degrees in the daytime. But our hosts served us wonderful meals overlooking orange groves and cow pastures. We were driven safely from site to site in a van with "Jesus" license plates. The houses we built averaged about $2000 in cost, for which the families made a $300 downpayment as well as contributing their own sweat equity. When we were all done they were proud and grateful homeowners!
I am thankful to have experienced the magic of working with a great group of peopl, both those who travelled with me and those we met in Honduras. Our thanks to the many friends and Indigo customers whose generous contributions made this work possible. If any other readers would like to help in alleviating the desperate situation in Central America, we urge you to send a contribution to Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org) or one of the other groups engaged in relief work there.

Go to the people.
Learn from them.
Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
When the work is done,
the task accomplished,
the people will say
"We have done this ourselves".
Lao Tzu - 700 BC

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