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Sustainable Harvest International779 North Bend Road 
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Volunteer in Honduras with Sustainable Harvest International |
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 Join the Sustainable Harvest Honduras team at our demonstration farm. The farm is located in the mountainous highland of northern Honduras. This year, with support from local families and volunteers, Sustainable Harvest Honduras continues construction of an educational facility on the site. The farm serves as a place where local farming families can learn about sustainable agricultural practices they can implement on their own land.The educational center's classrooms and dormitories have been constructed. Now we need your assistance to move forward with a variety of important projects. Volunteer projects may include solar energy systems, biogas digester construction, organic growing demonstration area, natural erosion barriers, permaculture, hydroponics demonstration site, a biodiesel workshop, irrigation systems and production of natural and organic alternatives to chemical fertilizers and insecticides. Volunteers participating in this project will stay on the farm working with local families and Honduran staff to create a model where farmers will learn alternatives to destructive slash-and-burn agricultural practices. In addition to work projects, there will also be a weekend excursion to enjoy the ancient Mayan ruins of Copan. Travel Costs The cost for this trip is $1,200 per person. This total includes project materials and supplies, liability insurance, rustic dorm accommodations at the work site and double occupancy hotel accommodations when we visit tourist areas, meals, in-country transportation and guide / translation service. In addition, $200 of your program fee is given as a direct donation to the local program. This total DOES NOT INCLUDE airfare, medicine, phone calls, souvenirs, or any additional costs not mentioned. A deposit of $300 should be sent in with your registration form. The balance and airfare is due to be paid 60 days before the start of the trip. If travel funding is an issue for you, please contact Sarah Kennedy at our outreach office to brainstorm some fundraising ideas. Upcoming Dates Sustainable Harvest Honduras
Sustainable Harvest Honduras (SH-Honduras) is a Honduran nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of Sustainable Harvest International. SH - Honduras is working in rural areas of northern Honduras, giving technical assistance, training events and logistic support to 405 families in 35 communities. Three SHI extensionists work with communities in the municipalities of Azacualpa, Nueva Frontera and Quimistan in the Santa Barbara Department, near the Guatemalan border. This is the area where we will visit participating communities and do volunteer work. Two extensionists work in the tribal areas of El Rosario and Cuchillas in the Yoro Department, south of San Pedro Sula. Visit the Sustainable Harvest Honduras website in spanish: www.cosechasosteniblehn.org Click here to download a registration form. Click here to learn about past Smaller World Service Trips to Honduras.
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SHI's pilot program was established in Honduras in 1997. One of the poorest country in Central America, Honduras is confronted with a host of environmental problems, including massive tropical deforestation. For its first seven years, SHI's Honduras program worked in partnership with the Fundación Ecologista HRPF, headquartered in San Pedro Sula in the northwest part of the country. Recently, however, we finished the paperwork to make SH-Honduras an independent affiliate of SHI. They are now taking more responsibility for their own management and funding. 
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