Family and Friends,
It is with great joy that Erika and I announce that we will be moving back to Honduras this August. I have accepted a position with Catholic Relief Services as an International Development Fellow.
The fellowship is a 1-year posting that will provide me with a variety of experiences that will serve as a foundation for my career with CRS. While my work will mostly focus on water and sanitation, anti-human trafficking and anti-child labor projects I will also have the opportunity to bounce around the rest of the country office to get experience in strategic planning, finance and administration. I’ll be in this position for a year and then likely move to a program manager position for a 2-5 year posting likely in another country and possibly in another region.
While we will be returning to Honduras it will be very different from our last stint in Honduras at the Farm of the Child. Rather than living 30 minutes outside of the small town of Trujillo, we will be living in Tegucigalpa (the capital) a city of 1 million people about 9 hours by bus from Trujillo. We will still be close enough to visit the Farm occasionally while being almost a world away. Tegucigalpa also has the added bonus of being just a 2-hour flight from Miami.
We have a busy few months ahead of us as we prepare to head back south. I graduate in May and then we’ll be in South Bend May 23-June 27 and in Florida June 27-July 20 before heading to Baltimore for training. We hope to see many of you in that time.
Love,
Michael-John, Erika, Michael, Jacob, and Maggie
