It was a beautiful summer morning in Honduras a few years back, and on this glorious day I found myself in a small village about 4 miles east of Copán Ruinas, Honduras. I was on a fact finding mission to look into working with a local school through our school supply program, a project that [...]
A Different Approach to Volunteering As the years have gone by, I have watched Paramedics For Children change with the times. I noticed early on that some NGOs were either developing infrastructure or bringing in brigades of volunteers. Some do both, and over time these NGOs seem to go in either one direction or the other, [...]
"If it bleeds, it leads" is the old news axiom...and never has this rule done more damage to a place and a people as it has in Honduras. What little news is reported from Honduras is filled with blood and violence, gangs and drugs and the ever present body count. Videos of news reporters in [...]
