Heights resident’s volunteer project helps bring clean water to impoverished Honduras
In the middle of April, I left Brooklyn to volunteer with 19 Rotarians to endure exhausting physical labor in the mountains of Honduras, in conjunction with “Pure Water for the World” a non-profit organization.
Our herculean objectives, in the muggy, hot jungles, outside the city of Trojes, Honduras near the border of Nicaragua, was to install water filtration, build outhouses, dig latrines, instruct people in proper hygiene education, and provide disease-resisting injections to the residents for at least 200 people.
The group consisted of my roommate, a great guy, a gregarious middle-age Irishman, Fire Chief Daniel Sullivan of Hallandale Beach, Florida; Barry Poppel, leader of the expedition; co-leader Doug Hinkle; and 17 other Rotarians from across the U.S. Massachusetts. Six were women.