Homeward Bound

Hola Everyone,

First of all we would like to apologize for the lack of posting in the past few days. We had no access to internet where we were staying and were at the discretion of the staff as to when we could reach a computer.

The first flight leaving for Halifax will leave in about 5 minutes and the second flight will be leaving Newark at 12:00 this afternoon. We hope to arrive back in Sackville early this evening and try and catch the big game somewhere in between!

Last night the group got together here at the hotel and reflected on the week. The students and professionals alike were impacted immensely by their experience and by what they gave to and received from the Honduran people.

The past few days of the brigade were fantastic with the public health and medical group accomplishing above and beyond what they expected to achieve. The public health group who worked with two families throughout the week were able to provide concrete floors, water storage units, latrines and clean cooking stoves for each household. In addition they pooled their money together to buy the families a month worth supply of staple foods, something these families would not normally have access to. With the donations we collected before the trip and things of their own, the group provided the families with clothing, footwear, backpacks and more.

The medical brigade was equally successful providing healthcare and donations for 687 people on their last day alone. The students and health professionals worked brilliantly as a team and learned from each other and their patients.

The Global Brigades staff quickly recognized the group's dedication to the movement and was sad to let us go. We left behind many supplies for the next group and with enthusiasm for the brigade next year!

We will post pictures and a final word later- Thank you for following and for all of your support.

Day 1 and 2 of Brigades!

Hola!
Everything is going great here in Honduras. We just finished our second day of brigading! Yesterday the Medical Brigade saw roughly 300 patients and today about 400. We are learning lots through working with the doctors, dentists and nurse. The public health team spent yesterday cleaning up at their village and today are doing education workshops. They even made a skit for today (hopefully we will get an instant replay and record it!!) Tomorrow they will finally start their building. We hope all is well with you and we hope you will keep writing to us! We've made a list of all the parents who posted and we will make sure to send your best wishes to them!
Buneos Tardes a todos!
The GB Team

Safe and Sound!

Hola a todos! Hello Everyone!
We arrived safely at Repaco at about 10pm our time last night. It was a very long day of travelling but the scenery on the bus ride was great. Repaco is a beautiful facility- we are very lucky to be under the care of such great staff! We are currently in Nuevo Paraiso visiting with Sociodad Amigos de los Ninos. The whole group is currently playing with young orphans and soon we will have lunch then visit Flor Azul, the boys agricultural school. Once we have finished our visiting we will start unpacking our 60 suitcases full of donations and medications and prepare for our first day of brigading. We do not have internet where we are staying, but we hope to come to Nuevo a few times this week to write to you all. We are all safe, happy and most of all excited for the week ahead.
GB team

Newark is the New New York

After a very early wake up and a long wait in Halifax, we found ourselves peering through tiny plane windows at large sky scrapers and the statue of liberty. We are now sitting around the Marriott hotel eating pizza off of napkins...not exactly how we imagined our big city experience, but hey, we hear Newark (NJ) is the new New York. We have a 2:30 am wake up tomorrow morning, to catch our flight to Houston and after a quick plane change we will be off to San Pedro Sula! We do not have internet access at Repaco, the ranch where we are staying, but we are hoping to be able to get online a few times throughout the week- so keep checking in. We have had excellent treatment so far and we even got about $400 in baggage fees waived! Hopefully Continental will keep pulling through and we will arrive on schedule in sunny Honduras :)

Everyone is doing great and we are all excited and eager to see what tomorrow brings! Please write back to us when we post- we love hearing from you all.

Global Brigades Mounties

Global Brigades Mount Allison 2010

The 2010 Global Brigades team at Mount Allison is gearing up for their second brigade in Honduras. After much anticipation the bags are packed and we are ready to go !

We will be leaving tomorrow, February 18th and returning February 28th. We will be departing from Halifax flying to Newark for an overnight, followed by a flight the next morning to Houston and then Houston to San Pedro Sula. After arriving in San Pedro Sula we will drive through to Tegucigalpa, the country's capital, for a short stop and then to our final destination La Hacienda Rapaco. From there we will go each day to various brigade sites for both our public health work and medical/dental clinics.

Family and friends are encouraged to follow the blog throughout the week for updates. We hope to have internet access every few days and will post as much as possible.

Thank you to everyone who has been involved in helping to make the brigade possible. We are extremely excited to get to Honduras and begin working!

Will post again in Newark- Stay tuned