You need to contact nurse Peggy in Roatan.She is building a new clinic
there that will be run 100% by volunteers and donations.I am sure she
would love to hear from you.Tell her I sent you. Her email is
PeggyStranges.....com .God bless you both,Tricia Power Baton Rouge
Louisiana
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From: travel-to-honduras....groups.com
[mailto:travel-to-honduras....groups.com] On Behalf Of Terry Curtin
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:25 PM
To: travel-to-honduras....groups.com
Subject: RE: [travel-to-honduras] The Grand International Dialogue
Marco:
My wife and I are planning on semi-retiring and fully retiring in
Roatan. I
am an engineer (petroleum) and my wife has extensive nurse, geriatric
and
infant nursery experience as well as business management experience.
Once
we are settled we would like to help out in any way we can, on a limited
basis, to the betterment of the people of Honduras. I have lived about
25
years of my life in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela and Honduras
and
am fluent in English and Spanish. My wife understands a little Spanish.
If there is anything we can help you out with, either here in Canada or
in
Roatan, please let us know.
Terry & Diane Curtin
Fort St. John, BC
Canada
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From: travel-to-honduras....groups.com
[mailto:travel-to-honduras....groups.com] On Behalf Of Marco
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:21 PM
To: travel-to-honduras....groups.com
Subject: [travel-to-honduras] The Grand International Dialogue
Good afternoon...
With the deadline for registration just around the
corner (end of September), the pace of people
registering to attend the Conference on Honduras 2005
(http://www.projecthonduras.com/conference) has
increased during the past few days. We now have a
total of 179 people confirmed to attend.
We are ahead of last year at this time by about 10
registrations. Last year, we ended up having
approximately 250 people at the Conference on Honduras
2004. I am estimating we'll have about 250 this year
as well.
So far, 63% of the people that have registered will be
traveling from the US. About 34% will be traveling
from within Honduras. And 3% will be traveling from
other countries (Canada & Mexico).
I would very much like to see more participation by
Hondurans at the conference. Perhaps one reason there
are not more Hondurans has to do with the perception
that the event is a North American event and that it
will be conducted in English. Thus, I encourage
everyone to spread the word that the conference will
be conducted in both English and Spanish. We will
have simultaneous translation services throughout the
four days of the conference. We'll have more than 100
headphones available.
It is true that the Conference on Honduras is North
American-sponsored. Both projecthonduras.com and
Special Missions Foundation are based in the US. But
the event is being held in Copan Ruinas for a good
reason, and that is that we want it to have an
increasingly Honduran focus.
As some of you will recall, the Maduro Administration
in 2003 came up with the concept of a "Grand National
Dialogue" for Honduras. The idea was to establish a
national discussion involving all segments of Honduran
society with respect to developing a long-term vision for
the country... The central question being, "Where do
we want Honduran society to be by the year 2021?".
I'm not sure what ever happened to the Grand National
Dialogue, but I can tell you that one of the things we
are attempting with the Conference on Honduras series
is to do something in the same vein... but more
comprehensive. We want to establish a "Grand
International Dialogue", involving both Honduran
society and those individuals and organizations abroad
that consider themselves friends of Honduras.
We already have a long-term vision for Honduras. It
consists of a population that is extremely
well-educated because it will have access to
affordable education based on curriculms and teachers
that stimulate and support creative thinking, practical
application of knowledge, and constant questioning.
It consists of a population that will be extremely healthy
because it will have access to good nutrition, clean
water, and affordable basic medical care.
It consists of a population that will have compassion
for everybody, particularly for children, the weak, and
the underprivileged, and that it will passionately believe
that the most noble thing in life is to give rather than to
receive.
It consists of a population that will believe it can
always solve its own problems, and that solutions do
not always require money.
And finally, it consists of a population that will
stop seeing itself in terms of red and blue,
conservative and liberal, Catholic and Protestant,
rich and poor, cultured and uncultured, right and
wrong... and stop pointing fingers.
The Grand International Dialogue we seek to promote is
all about finding common ground in a few core areas that
have the greatest potential to empower the Honduran
people. It is also about learning to engage each other in
a more gracious, civil language whenever we are unable to
find that sacred ground.
The vision already exists. It is a matter of sharing
this vision with everyone and seeking wide input to perfect
it and implement it consistently for generations to come.
Best,
Marco
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