Well-Being For All

Birds and Bees, Avian Flu, AIDS and Orphan Prevention

We've had a busy week here in Honduras!

The Birds and the Bees

Many of our donors may not be aware that World Accord has another partner in Honduras called Project Global Village or in Spanish Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG for short). We first met this organization and its charismatic and creative leader, Chet Thomas, here in 1984. Our funding support started in 1987 and has continued for several programs over the years.

About 3 years ago, we again began to provide some funding for a new program we affectionately call The Birds and the Bees. This program provided small subsistence farm families with training and a start in either bee keeping and honey production or domestic poultry production for eggs and chicken meat.

Once we get home and are able to translate the documents from Spanish, we'll post a full report and some photos to our web site.

Avian Flu

Avian Influenza (bird flu) has NOT arrived in the America´s ... YET. We can hope that it never does arrive here, but it probably will. In rural areas in Central America, people eat eggs or chicken almost every day. EVERY DAY! It is a primary source of protein.

World Accord and our partners are not waiting for someone else or the government to take action. We are putting plans in place for dealing with the health threat and are immediately starting to ramp up projects to produce alternate protein sources – fish ponds, goats, cattle, sheep, soya beans – whatever the people can produce.

Bird flu will be bad in Canada. It will be DEVASTATING in Central America.

AIDS and Orphan Prevention

Lastly, we've been busy with something else here in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. David Barth (World Accord staff) and I met with CIDA at the Canadian Consulate. The meeting went very well. They are good people working there and they are trying hard to do a good job. We are offering them a new program idea that needs their funding support.

The threat of AIDS is spreading here like a raging prairie grass fire. We can help and we need CIDA's help to increase the effectivness of a program that will save lives, reduce the suffering of the ill and help secure the future for their children. This will be an ORPHAN PREVENTION PROGRAM. More to come – stay tuned!

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Terry Fielder
Executive Director

posted by World Accord @ 2:12 AM