Networking in Honduras

Over the past few years the health project in Honduras has created a methodology called “Here Among Us…” to teach HIV prevention to adult men using interactive and provocative activities. In Honduras there are many organizations that work with HIV, but most often they work with youth and women and not adult men, which in some ways is the most important population to work with since they often make the sexual decisions. I personally think the methodology is great and I love leading it because it is so much fun. In fact we think the methodology is so great that we want other Honduran institutions to use it as well. So a few weeks ago I made a trip to Teguc and set up meetings with various NGOs, USAID, Pan American Health Organization, the Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health to tell them about the methodology and offer the services of volunteers to train their employees in the methodology. Everyone seemed very interested (of course) and said they wanted to plan a Training of Trainers for their employees. However, we shall see if anything actually comes through. It is very Honduran to say “Oh, yes of course, that sounds very interesting, we would love to work with you, anything you need just call” and then when you actually do call they don’t have the time or the money. Well, regardless of whether anything comes out of the meetings it was still an interesting experience to meet with these people, definitely not what I thought I would be doing before I came to the Peace Corps.