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I headed up to the north coast this two weeks ago to visit Andrea and Matthew in La Ceiba and to visit the Finca in Trujillo.  It was a nice trip, though a bit rushed and quite frankly a bit wet.  It rained the whole time which isn’t entirely unexpected this time of year.  
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I spent two days last week in San Juan, La Paz.  San Juan is a village of about 60 houses about 2 1/2 hours from Tegucigalpa.  Until last week the town had no running water.  The residents of the village (typically women) had to go down to the river outside of town to wash clothes, bathe, bring water back for [...]

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A few years ago CRS started a volunteer program to place volunteers with local partners to do grassroots work, along the lines of Peace Corps, JVC or the Farm of the Child where Erika and I volunteered.  At a conference a few weeks ago I met a woman in her early twenties who had just finished a stint volunteering with CRS in Kenya.   I mentioned I was going [...]

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 My last post was about my friends Marc and Michele who are also fellows.  I just got some new information about where the rest of the 22 fellows were posted.  Click on the image below to see an interactive map of where the 2008 CRS fellows are going to be posted. 

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I’ve written a bunch about my new job in Honduras, but one thing I haven’t mentioned yet is that two of my good friends from Fletcher will also be working for CRS next year.  CRS hires 15-30 fellows each year and places them in one of their country offices around the world.  There were four Fletcher [...]

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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 [...]

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Click here to check out the Catholic Relief Services website.

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The head of the country office for CRS is the Country Representative. This is an excerpt from an interview with my future boss Jack Byrne who has been CR in Honduras since 2005.
According to Byrne, recovery from Hurricane Mitch has been uneven in Honduras. The country’s economy is growing 5 percent annually, and mini-cities have [...]

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