With the difficult terrain it is not easy to bring aid into the small villages in rural Honduras. Most supplies must be brought in by four-wheel drive truck over sometimes very treacherous dirt roads. Buses traveling between the large cities often get stuck, relying or hoping for locals with large draft animals to pull them out. Nearly every four-wheel drive vehicle that makes the journey has shovels in the back or behind the seat. When non-profit groups need to bring in machines or building supplies it is often nearly impossible to get them into the villages and this makes building a slow process.
Often volunteers ride in the back holding down the equipment and or building materials, keeping their arms inside the truck or they get mudded. Still other times they must get out to prevent the vehicle from bogging down in the mud when it gets stuck. "It is a bumpy ride to say the least" stated one recent volunteer.
The bumpy ride can damage materials or machines and tools being brought in and it is a long way back to civilization to get replacement parts. Thus a simple job can takes weeks and depending on the season, perhaps months to get thru a mountain pass road which is closed due to a landslide. The more remote the village the tougher it becomes. A simple construction project such as building a school, church or miniature sewer treatment plant could take months or sometimes have to wait to be finished season or even next year.
