Exploring Yoro

Exploring Yoro
The B team, Nicole, Wiktoria, Shauna and I explored the municipality of Morazan today as a possible site for future work of Shoulder to Shoulder. The FAO (Food and Agriculture organization) kindly gave us a ride and we rode high into the mountains there to the small village of Candalaria. The terrain was different with many pine trees. They did not grow coffee there at least not as much, but grew more vegetables. It was dry and they used rain water in cisterns and surface wells. We visited one surrounding community (Los Angeles) and found it to be quite poor. There is no health post and the nearest one is about 4 km away in Palino. Clearly there is a need but there is still much ground work to be done before they will be ready for a brigade. It is exciting to think of some expansion of the work though, as there are many communities just like San Jose with little or no services.
Bill Markle