Well-Being For All

Dave Snell's Perspective

Terry thought it would be interesting to get Dave Snell's perspective particularly because he was one of the first to visit back in 1985. Here's what he has to say:

My first impression having arrived here at La Buena Fe is just how much all of the vegetation has grown up around all of the buildings because it was pretty open when I was here before. The houses weren’t there at the roadway. The village near La Buena Fe is much bigger and more prosperous. There are new schools and the hydro line had just gone up months before I was there. There is certainly a lot more traffic on the highway than what there was then.

Sunday, when we went out to Conception, the road was paved!! That was a real shock to go up there to a paved road. Henrique spoiled it all by bringing us back on the gravel road.

Certainly the level of poverty is not what it was on my first trip back in 1985. A lot more people are living in either Adobe or concrete houses. Most people were living in stick houses with thatched roofs. There was certainly no hydro up in the villages in the mountains. There’s a lot more roads in the hills than what I remember. There are a lot more schools as well.

Alfonzo has that concrete house up on the hill now. He wasn’t living in anything near that when we saw him the first time. I don’t think it was even an adobe house. To me, seeing him today, he is one of the more prosperous men in the town. Not having seen the rest of the men, but that would be my take. His land around his property has a lot more growth on it than what it had then.

As we were driving along the roads, the corn fields and the coffee growers, everything is just much more prosperous. Before there would be a stock of corn every two feet in the fields and they were considerably smaller than the fields we were looking at today.

The one thing that I haven’t noticed is the bees. The first time we were down here, quite a number of the homes had honey bees. They would have a hollowed limb by their house and that is where they got their honey from. We got to actually watch them process the honey.

Dave Snell

posted by World Accord Staff @ 11:37 PM