Río
de Agua Viva 2025
LEARN and Teach!
Over the last eleven years, AHMEN’s Rio de Agua Viva team
focused primarily on sharing knowledge with community leaders. We ask focus communities what types of
education would be beneficial for our team to bring and plan around those
concepts.
This last summer I visited with my dear
brother, Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, Secretary of Science, Technology, and
Innovation for the Republic of Honduras.
I asked him what AHMEN needed to do to remain relevant. He encouraged us to keep bringing the medical
brigades, keep partnering in community development, but he recommended we take
our mission a step further. “The focus of the
world has been on Honduras as a victim of the narco-state and U.S. politics. Very well-minded people seek to ‘help’
Honduras. You come to teach, but why not
bring people to learn?”
As always, we welcome all those called to join us, but we specifically
aim to recruit teachers, professors, college students, and high school
graduates to come to Honduras with us on a leadership training team. This team will have three
main objectives:
·
Address local needs via educational training
·
Facilitate team membership as community
service hours, school/university credits, and/or CEUs
·
Train and equip volunteers to lead their
own learning and teaching teams in the future
The team dates (7-10 days) for Summer 2025 will be released by
Halloween 2024. The team fee will be around
$1,200 per person which includes all in-country travel, food, and lodging. It does not include airfare or one’s worldly
pleasures.
Where will we go? It
depends on how large our team ends up becoming, the greatest need, and the
common interest.
·
Cruzadas del Evangelio
(AHMEN’s base operations
in La Ceiba and home to the Shalom Dorm for At-Risk Young Women)
·
The
mountain community of Yorito welcomes a strong planning focus to help
the dozens of NGO members and community agents ensure every home has clean
drinking water. The
mayor seeks help long-term planning in sustainable development.
Medical brigades are also welcome.
·
The
shoreside community of Ciriboya
hosts the first public
Garifuna hospital in Honduras. Medical
and education brigades requested.
Additional goals involve evaluating the revitalization of the healthcare
facility. You will be
speaking Garifuna after just a few days!
·
Journeying
up the river in La Moskitia to conduct medical brigades and lead community
health seminars entails adventure few ever have the opportunity to experience
elsewhere. A
linguist and nature lover’s delight!
·
Las Islas de La Bahía:
We will participate in
the first interest group meeting with future potential community agents on the
beautiful Roatan island. SCUBA
and snorkeling encouraged!
As you can
tell, AHMEN can introduce you to many places where you may begin to open the
doors of your educational institution to learning in Honduras. By joining the 2025 Rio de Agua Viva team,
you will not only engage deeply with leadership in multiple areas where AHMEN
teams serve, you will train as a team leader to plan the ways you will partner
with AHMEN in the future. Email us for
more info at AHMENinHonduras@gmail.com today!
