Friday, February 25, 2011




I would like to tell you about an upcoming team to the coastal area of Honduras.  AHMEN has worked in this area for the past several years, but this year the team will be more extensive and with some unique features.  As we are prone to do, AHMEN will be "partnering" with several other folks:
CHIMES, Cruzadas, SIFAT,the MAMUGA organization, several local libraries, as well as local Hondurans and Cubans medical persons.  Read on to see what this team is planning.



August Team 6 - 15, 2011
The team will, in actually, be four separate but interrelated teams.  Because of this I will try to explain them separately, then show where they interact.  All of these teams are joint projects of AHMEN and CHIMES.
Team: AHMEN/SIFAT/Library project
Team Leaders: 
Michael Franklin: frankmj42@gmail.com
 Bud McKinney: bud137@sbcglobal.net
Location of main activity; Cosuna, Honduras
For more on AHMEN/SIFAT initiative read in www.honduranmissions.com.
This is be the 4th and final workshop for the promoters.  In addition to identifying their future projects, they will graduate from their first year as trained, certified 
 promoters.
Our team work will be to:
  1. hold medical clinic for the promoters
  2. hold medical clinic for the village of Cosuna, Honduras
  3. teach health related topics for the promoters to take home to their villages.
  4. hold eye glass clinics
  5. teach promoters how to evaluate for vision problems
  6. educate promoters on where to refer patients with vision problems
  7. explore with librrians how to interest students in using the library
  8. explore with librarians how to best utilize their libraries for the villages
  9. explore, with the librarians, how to acquire more  books
  10. Interact with the 5th Annual International Medical Seminar being held in Ciriboya, Honduras - which is being held 15 min away. (see www.honduranmissions.com for write up on this - front page)
  11. some of the team members may then go into the jungle with the La Moskitia Jungle team.
part of the AHMEN/SIFAT team
Team: 5th  International Medical Seminar
Team Leaders: 
Luther Castillo: wasurusian@yahoo.com
Location of main activity: Ciriboya, Honduras.
For more on this seminar and it’s history click www.honduranmissions.com and read the story on the front page entitled 5th International Medical seminar.  This will be a 3 day seminar with medical personnel from Honduras, USA, Cuba, Italy, and Germany.  It will include presentations appropriate for doctors, nurses, and midwives.  In addition, we will be seeing patients at the Ciriboya Hospital jointly to explore different approaches the different training has produced.
Bill Camp, founder of CHIMES, will be the road manager for the International Medical Seminar
obviously, he is from California. 
Team: AHMEN/CHIMES medical mission to La Moskitia Jungle.
Team Leaders: 
Location main activity: Moskitia Jungles, Honduras
This mission will be “purely” medical, traveling by pick up trucks and canoe into the Jungle of the Moskitia area to remote villages that rarely have medical teams visit.  This team has been traveling twice yearly into these area for the past several years and work with the local people of the villages and doctors from the surrounding area.  This is a very exciting and vital ministry, but is not for the “faint of heart”.
This team will leave after the two seminars mentioned above are completed.  All of the participants in this mission will have worked in one or the other of the seminars.  For exact dates contact the team leaders above.
Dr. Tom Arnold is a regular on this team, his step-son Michael has been going to Honduras since he was 13 years old,  will be joining him for the first time in this part of Honduras.
The Eye team will hold clinics during the AMEN/SIFAT/Library seminar in addition to the teaching part.  Following the seminar, they will move to the Mosqitia area and hold clinic and teaching program in the village of __Pueblo Neuvo  Here they will work on helping a local lady and her family establish a “micro enterprise” in evaluating and fitting for glasses.
The Guffeys have spread the eye program to many of the AHMEN teams - the Mt. Vernon Baptist from Jasper, Al.  team shown here working the eye program in Limon, Honduras.

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