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Medical Brigades to Aid poor communities in Honduras
Approximately 1,700 people in several communities in La Mosquitia have been attended by medical brigades from the United States Army thru the program “Beyond the Horizon 2008” that was started in February of this year with medical attention and community projects.
The brigades are conformed by general doctors, dentists and a specialist supported by the U.S. and Honduran military and the Naval Force.
The aid program offers medical attention, teaching the locals about personal hygiene, healthy living habits to avoid the proliferation of insects and construction of schools and access roads.
The brigades have been organized into different groups, each of them going to different communities where most people are of very low resources in Gracias a Dios such as Palacios, Las Marias, the Rio Platano Reserve, Pimienta Yapuwas and Wawina. These communities are near the Patuca River.
According to coordinators of the program, the most common illnesses among the population are intestinal illnesses, skin eruptions, muscular pain, and the phenomenon of decompression among ex-divers.
The only way to get to these villages is with helicopters and the nearest community is over three hours flight from the air base in Palmerola, Comayagua.
The cost for the brigades is calculated in over two million dollars, most of this was invested in logistics because of the isolation of that area. The cost for each flight is calculated in approximately five thousand dollars.
But the distance and the difficult access to the area have not been an obstacle to attend these communities in need.
These brigades are offer to the communities of La Mosquitia because of the extreme poverty the people in this area have.
The program “Beyond the Horizon 2008” is also helping other communities in other parts of Honduras.
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Honduras. Tourist destination for the Rich and Famous
AThe job of promoting Honduras around the World as one of the main tourist destinations with beach and arqueology of Central America is rendering fruits little by little.
Personalities from the business and entertainment world have included Honduras as their tourist destinations and some of them have invested in the construction of luxury mansions.
Some of the famous Hollywood personalities we can mention that seek pleasure and adventure in the land of Honduras are actors Richard Gere, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, the supermodel Claudia Schiffer, the Spanish singer David Bustamante among others.
We can also mention the third richest man of the World, Bill Gates, who visited the island of Roatan in mid march; he also visited Tegucigalpa last year. Another name on the list of world millionaires visiting Honduras is the Mexican Carlos Slim, who did business tourism.
All these celebrities from the World of business and entertainment have enjoyed the beaches of the Honduran Caribbean, the Ruins of Copan, the food and the attention of the men and women who work in the tourist industry.
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer built a mansion on a Cay near the island of Utila, while the Spanish singer David Bustamante is currently constructing a luxury housing complex in Roatan, and will be selling the housed to the rich and famous of Spain.
Honduras appears in the list of the 53 most important tourist sites of the world to visit in 2008 recommended by the tourism supplement of The New York Times.
The newspaper recommends their readers to visit the island of Roatan, tourist site that is located in the position number 30 of a list of 53 countries.
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