View from La Gruta

La Esperanza...Building the future

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May 8th 2009
A string of coincidences led me to be here, I met a girl from Bishop Auckland (the town where I was born) in Tegus and we talked about visiting Valle de Angeles. I missed the bus stop for Valle and had to backtrack, which meant I ended up on the same bus as the volunteer coordinator for i-to-i. When he suggested I could help at a construction project in La Esperanza, I asked if he'd heard of an ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Western » La Esperanza

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Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha... ... read more