Trip Reports
2016 Trips
February 2016: Fifteen traveled to Honduras--one from as far as California. Seven team members were first-timers, including two teachers from IHM School. We worked on the wall, helped clean and prep the new SECOND Santiago Apostol house, and did a home-to-home food brigade in Quebrada Grande. We enjoyed a visit to the Reyes Irene and Pedro Atala projects, breakfast with Sister, a movie night for the younger children and a rowdy Bingo Night with the teens at Nuevo Paraíso, and a concert for the kids on one of the coldest days ever in Honduras!
2015 Trips
February 2015 Mission Team from IHM with Flor Azul villagers
Feb 2015: The IHM Adult mission trip had 12 members who worked on an Adoration Chapel addition at Nuevo Paraíso, a plaza in front of the tienda near the kids’ homes, and a food brigade to Flor Azul village. They also provided backpacks and school supplies, hosted a movie night, and walked the children to their first day of school.
May 2015 Reunion Group
May 2015: Thirteen rising sophomores in college and three adults made a return trip--the third time to Nuevo Paraíso for many of them! They did a home makeover on Alegria House, did a food brigade to Flor Azul village, and played lots of soccer with the young men of Santiago Apostol home.
The June 2015 IHM Youth mission team with our Honduran friends
June 2015: The IHM Youth mission trip brought 12 first-timers and four chaperones to Honduras. They did a home makeover on Angeles house, painting inside and out, held a movie night (McFarland USA) for the children of Nuevo Paraíso, and had a great fiesta with the kids on the last night!
Pre-Christmas work of the IHM Santa Brigade
2013-2014 Trips
Members of FHC led or traveled on four mission trips in 2013-2014:
a Santa Christmas gift Brigade in December 2013
the Immaculate Heart of Mary Adult Brigade in February 2014
a Teen Reunion Trip in June 2014
the Immaculate Heart of Mary Teen Brigade in June/July 2014.
Here are some vital statistics:
Total number of traveling adults: 36
Total number of traveling teens: 35
Christmas gifts wrapped on the Santa Brigade: 400+
Ten- by eight-foot sections of the brick security wall around Nuevo Paraíso built: 7
Suitcases of donations brought down: 142
Travel days delayed by ice storms in the U.S.: 2
Mini Extreme Home Makeovers done in Nuevo Paraíso houses: 4
Food brigades to rural villages in Honduras: 3
Hokey Pokeys danced with the Kindergartners at Nuevo: 3
Soccer games played against Honduran kids or adults: 20+
Soccer games won by the North Americans: 0 (although we did score once or twice!)