Rock Spring Break 2010
January 2010 – Pictures!
Special thanks to Eunice Mejia for the photos!
Rock Newsletter – Spring 2009
Here is the Spring 2009 Rock Newsletter about our partnership in Choluteca.
You don’t see what I see
You don’t see what I see
by Joey Soto
I don’t think you get it.
But it’s not your fault, really. It’s not.
When you see this picture, you don’t see what I see.
Recent Posts on CHV Blog
If you haven’t yet read the recent posts on the Casa Hogar Vida blog, you should! You may see some familiar faces…
- Father’s Day in Limon.
- The Rock’s Visit to Honduras.
- The Rock Central Methodist
- Yasaira’s new hair cut.
- Manualidades move to Casa Hogar.
Two Hours at the Dump
Two Hours at the Dump
By Caley Palmer
This is just an excerpt from my journal from Tuesday, March 24th:
After visiting Casa Hogar Vida and having siesta time, we went to the dump. I knew it would be hard and blow my mind, and it did. At first it looks just like any normal dump – trash, messy, vultures, not pretty. But then, you look closer and see people DIGGING through it, people sitting in make-shift shacks amongst it all. Or then, you walk up to this enormous pile of rotted food, bloody meat that look like they just came from a slaughter house. It was absolutely disgusting. Cow carcasses, bones, bloody, rotting meat — and they had to stand and dig through this to look for plastic bottles.
“Bien” — This is Love
"Bien" — This is Love
by Joey Soto
One minute you’re in the friendly confines of an upper-middle class hotel, and the next you’re staring poverty and all its friends in the face.
It’s humbling and heart-breaking. You’ve seen the pictures on TV and seen the infomercials about helping feed a starving child for only $.10 a day, but you don’t really believe what you’re seeing can be real. You can’t fathom such devastation when you’ve only known of luxury.
Walking down an uneven, trash-filled, grass-barren path surrounded by barbed wire for who knows that purpose—they had little to protect—you have no idea what is about to hit you. It feels like a commuter train hitting you head-on at 60 mph. But it’s not. It’s worse.
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Hola from Honduras
We’ve been doing a good mix of hard work and playing with kids. One puppet show so far. We’ve spent a lot of time with the Ortez family (the super poor family with 12 people living in a shack). The kids have really warmed up to us, and we were able to help construct a pila (water reservoir) and a shower area so that they can treat the children’s skin problems and hopefully prevent it from coming back. The team is AMAZING. Everybody has really gelled, and are working hard. It’s breakfast time, and there are pancakes, so I should get going.
Melissa’s Story
In fall 2007, Melissa went to Honduras for five months to work with the development of Casa Hogar Vida, teaching in the English School, and helping out with the Malnutrition Recovery program.
Matt’s Story
As told at our Praise, Worship and Communion Service on January 29, 2009…
Hey my name is Matt and I was asked to come down and tell you a piece of my story today. For some reason my story always seems to have a good experience and a bad experience when ever I learn something in my life. Today I will share with you the latest thing that the lord has taught me. The lord recently choose to work with me on my pride. My pride in that I can fix just about anything, from cars to houses. Over the years I have been a little bit of every thing. I have been a mechanic, a carpenter, an electrician, and a plumber. So there is not too much in the realm of necessities that I can’t fix. Read more