St. Luke's in Honduras: P

Thursday, April 28, 2017.

Today's afternoon adventure was to the Canadian Embassy in downtown Tegucigalpa. But before that trip, we got in a morning of painting again in the residence. We are now finished the downstairs rooms and surveyed the second floor to figure out what we needed to do in our last morning tomorrow and if you go to the top floor out the balcony, there is a lovely view across the valley.
This morning there is a strong coffee smell in the air. Not far away is a coffee roasting factory and sometimes, the aroma is very strong.

In the afternoon we went to a meeting at the Canadian Consulate to hear about their work to build a stronger Honduran version of a "Children's Aid Society.". The Canadian Government has committed to a $19 million dollar project for UNICEF to help this new government organization bring itself up to international standards. Several of the officials had visited El Hogar and were very impressed. They had a number of questions and several more from the consulate plan to visit now to better understand how their project can better coordinate with organizations like El Hogar. We were impressed with some of their other projects such as promoting reproductive rights to juveniles given the average age of first pregnancy age is 14.

On the way back, note the heavy traffic on our little road into the institute. We had to make sure that we gave him plenty of room on the dirt road we were sharing with him.

Tonight being our last night at the Institute, it meant that our crafts were wrapping up and we have had a great time. The mosaic of paintings are of the canvases that the boys painted. There are some amazing artists here.

Ros and Rick made keys chains from gimp and that table was pretty busy all night. There was an ESL card game that gave us plenty of opportunity to teach English, but again, the consistently popular activity was the jigsaw puzzle. Note the huge crowd gathered around the table with Peter,,