Over the next couple of days, I will be sending out pictures of Bob Griffin's Rotary group and their visit to Mocoron and Mosquitia. Rotary and Pure Water will be working to bring these Mosquito Coast communities clean water. The purpose of these pictures is to show the extreme conditions and challenges involved in accomplishing our project goals. This is a pristine UNESCO site in need of great assistance so if you want to do a humanitarian tour please let me know.
Here is a picture of the Mocoron airport runway. There is only one 'path' connecting this village to the rest of Honduras.
This is an abandoned, cracked water tank build by SANNA (agency in charge water supply and sanitation). The village currently gets all of its water from the local river.
And this is that same river used for water, which households also use as a toilet and trash dump.
This is a typical community outside Mocoron, in rainy season AND dry season. This village was about 20 minutes from the ocean on the North Coast. (15°18'37.25"N, 83°34'55.15"W)
This is how you get around if there is no boat available.
The kids are constantly in the water, exposed to all sorts of parasites and skin diseases.
This is an example of an outhouse (left side) next to house. Every time someone leaves a house here, odds are they are stepping in their own waste.
This is the main street of the village Kruta. There are always chickens and pigs running around and people without shoes walking right next to them.
This is how rice and laundry are set out to dry. This is a great area to grow rice except for the lack land needed to dry it after harvest. The laundry is also hard to dry because it never stops raining.
Here is a more remote house. The further you travel from a town center, the more shanty-like they become.
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