El Hogar Work Team Blog

Off to Honduras!

Hello, and welcome to the MathWorks El Hogar Work Team blog! Here you can follow the exploits of a team of your fellow MathWorkers who are heading to El Hogar de Amor y Esperanza (The Home of Love and Hope) in Honduras for a week-long service project. Briefly, El Hogar is a residential school for desparately poor, abandoned or orphaned boys in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We leave early Saturday morning, Sept. 30 and return Saturday night, Oct. 7. While we are there, we'll be doing some construction work on a new campus just outside the city. More importantly, we are getting to know the people of this very special community. We hope to make some lasting relationships and bring back the good news about what great work this place does.

First and foremost, we'd like to thank all of you who have supported this trip financially. We needed to raise $2000 for our construction supplies and we blew through that with ease. With the extra money, we're bringing down some medicine for the clinic and some supplies for the office. We also hope to do something extra for the boys when we are down there. I also wanted to give Ned Gulley a special thanks for helping me set up this blog.

With any luck at all, we should be able to blog from Honduras. The school has recently received a donation of computers and a broadband connection, so hopefully you'll be able to track the progress of our intrepid team as we lay bricks, mix concrete, or most intimidating - keep up with 90 elementary school boys whose energy rivals that of most SuperBowl crowds. You should see some pictures here of cute, Honduran orphans and exhausted MathWorkers. Wish us luck!

Meet the team:

Gauri Adelkar	Helen Chigirinskaya	Christina Georgiadis	Jason Kinchen
Stuart McGarrity	Bill McKeeman	Ricardo Paxson

Posted by jason at September 29, 2006 04:00 PM