The building of schools is a major step in the right direction and it will indeed help in breaking the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras. As more and more classrooms are being built students for the first time in all their past generations will now be able to read and write. Greater needs for transportation for children who live far away from a school are also needed. The parents also need to value school and education more as a tool to better their life and their children’s future.
Since the church is entrenched in the daily lives of the rural poor many Churches have set up schools. Vocational training also needs to be taught. Information on how to make things, how to build stuff must also be taught. So they can build their roads safer with strong bridges, durable homes, schools and sewer treatment facilities, septic systems and buried leach lines; also how to build water retention systems, wells and deal with water filtration. All these things should be taught to the males growing up.
By creating vocational training programs on how to maintain a sustainable environment, run a small farm and care for a family the poverty problems will be a thing of the past. Just teaching the rural poor to read and write is not enough, they must be taught how to maintain and grow and taught to fish, as one expert of human habitats and civilizations told us.
What many do not realize is that as we speak right now there are volunteer teams building more schools and training teachers. There is a huge amount of progress being made and things are moving forward and appear to be on the right track. Of course more money is needed, more supplies need to be donated and more teachers will need to volunteer to train the next generation of Honduran teachers to accomplish this goal.