Honduras (MNN) ― When launched in Honduras, it was affectionately called the "Rambo Project." Sandy Hudson with International Aid says there's nothing but good news to share a year later about how effective the fast-moving, high-impact community transformation project turned out to be.
"We are currently in about 38 villages," he explains. They were "primarily in Lempira and Santa Barbara, working with the village leaders around what the needs are for those villages and bringing them solutions like the Hydraid water filter. But we also built Lorena stoves, latrines, as well as setting up village pharmacies."
Many poverty-stricken villages need help with health and wellness information, know-how, supplies, and technical needs.
They're often dealing with malnutrition, extreme circumstances, poverty and other problems that feed into a cycle of existing problems.
International Aid knows that more than physical things are required to transform mindsets, values, and behaviors that affect health and wellbeing. However, by meeting the physical needs, the obstacles are removed, and those who interact with the teams see a different motivator.
Contact with the Gospel comes through the mission teams that help and from the church connections in the region. IA is the catalyst to hope. "Many of the people in the villages are believers that what we are bringing them reaffirms their faith that IA is there for them, but more importantly, that Jesus is there for them. We're just doing for them what Jesus does every day for them."
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