Paso Viejo

Greetings! As you can see, I'm really, really, really trying to do the whole blog thing more often. Last week I went to Paso Viejo, and aldea in the mountains surrounding Quimistan, about an hour's walk from the Guatemalan border. It was a two-day visit, and we discussed family planning, women's health, and a sundry of other things as well. The second day I was there, we were with just a group of men. We discussed family planning and did an activity that visually displays what happens when someone doesn't do any family planning and then doesn't have the resources to take care of all of their children. Honestly, it is an activity that is usually done with teenagers, but I thought I'd try it out. I think it went well - we received a lot of good feedback. Below are some photos from the two days:
And some of the views from Buenos Aires, a community halfway between Quimistan and Paso Viejo:
We also did a condom demonstration with the Paso Viejo hombres, which actually went pretty well. I was a little nervous, being that I was with men 18-60 in a little campo town, and that most of them get super embarassed by stuff like that. However, they asked lots of questions and all faithfully put their condoms on their bananas. And speaking of bananas, if you've ever wondered what happens to all the bananas we use for condom demonstrations, please see below:

Also, as we were cooking our fantastic condom bananas, the electricity went out, hence the fashionable (can't live without it) headlamp.
Top with some mayo-ketchup and salt, and you have a great Honduran meal.