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Conference on Honduras 2001 to Focus on AIDS, Orphans, and Education
The Boston Globe, June 4, 2001
WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- projecthonduras.com
today announced that its second annual Conference on Honduras will take
place in Washington, DC, on October 12-13, 2001. The event will bring
together individuals and organizations engaged in projects to help
Honduras in the areas of education and health care. Topics of
concentration will include the AIDS epidemic in Honduras; orphans and
homeless children; and schools and student exchange programs.
"We have a keen interest in better understanding how to support
orphanages and other homes for children in Honduras who have lost their
families or are living on the streets, said Marco Caceres, who helped
initiate the Conference on Honduras last year. "We want to better
understand how to support hospitals and health clinics in Honduras that
are caring for people with HIV/AIDS, as well as continuing to identify
ways to improve access to education."
The Conference on Honduras series is the third part of
projecthonduras.com's three-step strategic plan to build an Internet-based
model of development for Honduras. During the past three years, the
volunteer group has created an online portal at http://www.projecthonduras.com
which serves as a clearinghouse of information on Honduras and has
established a growing international network of people communicating via
listserv forums on ways to help the country.
"We have about 1,000 individuals in our Worldwide Honduras Network,
and it's incredible to see the impact many of these private citizens are
quietly making on Honduras," said Caceres. "What we are trying
to do with the Conference is simply give people the chance to meet
face-to-face, exchange business cards and information, and perhaps
discover ways to complement each other's efforts."
The concept behind projecthonduras.com and the Conference on Honduras is
based on the belief that developing countries like Honduras need to tap
all of their "human capital" around the world in order to break
their cycles of poverty and find ways to implement solutions to persistent
problems. The Internet now provides the ability to quickly and
cost-effectively organize masses of people and channel their experience,
talents, and expertise into specific areas of need in a country.
Notes Caceres, "All we're doing here is giving people new tools for
effecting change in Honduras. With the projecthonduras.com website, the
Worldwide Honduras Network, and the Conference on Honduras, there is no
longer any excuse for Hondurans, Honduran-Americans, and friends of
Honduras not to get involved."
For further information on the Conference on Honduras 2001, please e-mail
hondo@post.com or go to http://www.projecthonduras.com/conference . The
Conference will be presented by projecthonduras.com (http://www.projecthonduras.com
) and sponsored by Special Missions Foundation, Inc.
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