Reconnect

Following Mary’s birthday celebration we all headed to Siguatepeque, a town about 1.5 hours away from Santa Barbara for our reconnect and project workshop. The first day we met with all the volunteers from the Health and Water & Sanitation from Hondu 10 (the group that I came in with in February). It was great to see volunteers that I hadn’t seen since training and hear about their experiences. The second day we were joined by all the other volunteers from the Health project (Hondu 8 has been here about a year) and continued to share experiences with our individual projects and learn about new Peace Corps Health initiatives. I had not met most of the other health volunteers from previous groups so it was nice to get to know them. It was exciting to hear about the new groups the Health project is working on, including Men’s Health, Abstinence, Support Groups for people living with HIV/AIDS and Women’s Health. All of these projects will be supported with new funding from PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). I was invited to join the Men’s Health team, which means I will be working with the Health administration to strengthen the program. I will be doing trainings in my site as well as traveling to other sites to train incoming PCVs and Hondurans. Although it means more work and more travel out of my site, I am excited to be part of the team.