One Rotary Club, the Morning Time Westlake Rotary Club comes in each year to help kids who are born with crooked feet and help them so they can walk. Rotarians have put forth a huge effort to helping the children of Honduras who are in desperate need, as Hondurans do a lot of walking in their daily lives, without foot power an individual is literally powerless. The Rotary Club has a big presence in Honduras and draws support from the entire Western Hemisphere. Several other groups including Engineers without Borders have come into Honduras to help build infrastructure and are planning to build projects such as sewer treatment facilities, schools and bridges. There are some issues to deal with in getting help into these countries for engineers. One volunteer tells of a discussion with a group from Engineers without Borders;
"I have met on the plane a group who was going to build churches in Guatemala. The man was telling me they had a lot of trouble going through customs and security with their power drills and saws, etc."
There are also Veterinary Teams who come for special missions to tend to the animals in rural Honduras, as the family animals provide milk, eggs, food and animal power is needed, as most are too poor to afford cars, trucks or tractors and there is often no place to get fuel or parts even if they did have those things. Many more vets are needed for those very important missions.
What kinds of animals do they have in rural Honduras? Just about every kind you can think of actually. For instance one Veterinary Team from Texas has had huge success and since they have been coming around many report that their animal losses are almost nil due to the great care. They tend to over 4600 cattle and various other animals such as; oxen, horses, donkeys, dogs, cats, pigs, goats, sheep, assorted birds, and an occasional coatimundi. What is a coatimundi?
This is a Coatimundi