School Supplies to Honduras!

After many months of planning, preparation, organization, as well as countless hours of collecting, cleaning, sorting, crating and then palletizing all of the school supplies and hospital equipment, we are very pleased to announce that these donations have left the storage facility enroute to Honduras!! These supplies are gifts to the host organizations that assist us in providing our in country logistics. Over the course of several months and years these items have been collected anticipating the eventual distribution to the organizations that have most needed it. The school supplies that have been collected were primarily facilitated by the Killeen Rotary Club in conjunction with the Killeen Independent School District. Towards the end of the 2006/2007 school year these supplies were collected at most of the schools in this community where they were then prepared for shipment. The hospital supplies were a collection of items organized through MEDICO over the course of 2 years. These much needed supplies will benefit several doctors in practice who provide care for the poor in Honduras.

A very special ‘Thank You’ goes out to DOLE Corporation for assisting us in getting this shipment down to Central America. Additionally, MEDICO wishes to thank the Vice President of the National Congress and daughter of the former First Lady, Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake for facilitating getting this shipment through customs and into country.

There are scores of other people and organizations MEDICO wishes to thank. Please read further about this effort in our next newsletter.