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February 2010 Update
"Over the last month, the staff has been adapting to the many new changes caused by the new class hours. Yes, we are all being stretched, but change is always a good thing when it is for the better.
The weekend of February 6th all of the students arrived for the school year 2010, we registered around 450 students. This number is up from past years, but we also have more new enrollees than in previous years. We literally have had to clear out storage rooms to create more space to house all of them. It is obvious which direction we will need to take with the next building project, adding on to the existing boys' dorms to accommodate for the increase in enrollments.
It was brought to my attention this week that 40 of our 150 new students, primarily our 7th graders, are way below the normal weight and height of someone their age, they clearly have not received the nutrition that they have needed to start the adolescent growth process. It is our desire to provide each of them with vitamins and minerals to help compensate for where they have been lacking in the past, their diets will obviously improve with the food they will receive from the cafeteria. We are used to that here, to some extent, but not to the extreme that we are seeing this year. However, after consulting with the ministry medical clinic to see what we had available, I discovered that we have only two bottles of adult vitamins available. We would appreciate any help that could be given to help us offer this to them regularly, it would benefit many, to say the least.
We started classes this Wednesday on schedule, only to discover that we are lacking in providing 75 students with desks. Currently, these students are sitting on the floor or standing, until this problem can be remedied. We will need $2000 to construct the amount of school desks we are lacking. The beauty is we can do that right here on campus in our own welding shop.
Until next month, God Bless"
About Honduras
Location
Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua
Capital City
Tegucigalpa
Area
112,090 sq km (slightly larger than Tennessee)
Population
7,792,854
Languages
Spanish, Amerindian dialects
Religion
Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%
**data from www.cia.gov
