Hondurasborders the Caribbean Sea on the north coast and the Pacific
Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca. The climate varies
from tropical in the lowlands to temperate in the mountains. The
central and southern regions are relatively hotter and less humid
than the northern coast.
The Coat of arms
of Honduras features the text "Republic of Honduras free
sovereign and independent", topped with a cornucopia, a
quiver of arrows, flanked by deciduous trees and limestone cliffs,
with a Masonic eye at the center.
This
national flag of Honduras was adopted on January 9, 1866,
based on the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America.
The flag consists of three horizontal bands
of equal width. The two outer blue bands represent the Pacific
Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The inner white band represents
the land between the ocean and the sea and the peace and prosperity
of its people.
The five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an
X pattern centered in the white band represent the five nations
of the former Federal Republic of Central America (El Salvador,
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala) and the hope that
the nations may form a union again.
The Honduran territory
consists mainly of mountains (~81%), but there are narrow plains
along the coasts, a large undeveloped lowland jungle La Mosquitia
region in the northeast, and the heavily populated lowland San
Pedro Sula valley in the northwest. In La Mosquitia lies the
UNESCO-world heritage site Río Plátano Biosphere
Reserve, with the Coco River which divides the country from
Nicaragua.
Natural resources include timber,
gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish,
shrimp, and hydropower.
In many of the homes of rural Honduras, there are
no pipes, no valves, and no taps. The children who drink this water
get very sick. They suffer diarrhea and dysentery and some die.
•50,000 children die from water borne diseases every
year.
•80% of illnesses detected in Honduras originate
in contaminated water supplies
•78% of the rural population in Honduras depend
on contaminated surface water.
On Child
Awareness Day the students in Barbados and we believe eventually
around the Caribbean will be encouraged to bring a bottle
of cold water to school instead of purchasing a bottle of
soda. This will be a sign of solidarity with the children
around the world that often times do not even have water to
drink!
The US $1 saved will
be collected and donated to the UCT's Child Sponsorship Program
established within the country being featured that month.
UCT is committed to
purchasing a Biosand water filter for
every family within our Child Sponsorship Program in Honduras.
UCT Founder, Jenny Tryhane will, God willing, be traveling
to Honduras to look at the feasibility of extending this project
into Honduras.
Biosand Water Filters
How it Works:
Contaminated
water is poured into the top of the filter, and virtually all
of the bad organisms or pathogens are removed in the top two inches
of the filter. The layers of sand remove suspended solids and
most micro-organisms.
The Result: Clean,
fresh water flows out of the filter using only gravity.
The Benefits:
Childhood diseases due to contaminated drinking water are ended.
United Caribbean Trust believe
education is a way out of poverty. Partnering with Helping
Hands Ministries International we seek to extend the child
educational sponsorship program into this area of Honduras.
The Adopt a School
program has been designed to create, establish and encourage
linkages between the schools within Honduras with other
youth organizations, schools and International Churches.
UCT believes God will establish these programs throughout
the Caribbean and the Americas.
Seen here the children in Helping Hands
Ministry children's program in Honduras being fed.
United Caribbean Trust has established
a Caribbean equivalent to Samaritan's Purse Operation
Christmas Child, we have called our project 'Make
Jesus Smile'
We have extended the project into numerous schools
within Barbados and it seems destined to become an end of
term activity. Enabling the children of Barbados to send
a shoe box of love and hope into desperately poor situations,
such as Haiti, the Carib Territory of Dominica, Brazil,
Suriname and God willing Honduras.
United
Caribbean Trust has partnered with Helping Hands Ministries in
Honduras.
Helping
Hands Ministry International is an evangelical Christian
ministry devoted to help Christian churches in Honduras reach
out to the poor; especially the poor children who are the most
vulnerable. We work with native pastors, helping them reach their
people for Jesus. We also host short-term mission teams who come
to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Honduras
as the Lord leads them.
They are a ministry of compassion
to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the people through...
Evangelism, Food, Clothes, Shoes,
Pure Water, Health Care, Bible Conferences, National Pastor’s
Training, Building Soul-Winning Churches, Hosting Ministry
Teams from the United States and more.
Contaminated
water is poured into the top of the filter, and virtually all
of the bad organisms or pathogens are removed in the top two inches
of the filter. The layers of sand remove suspended solids and
most micro-organisms.
