honduras

The Honduras Progressio team was delighted to introduce Lisa Barrett, political and consular affairs officer in the UK Embassy in Guatemala, to our field work in Honduras in December. The British consul stepped into Progressio’s world first hand, visiting a couple of Progressio’s projects in Nahuaterique and Marcala, in western Honduras. In those areas, Progressio is both tackling ex

The visit to Nahuaterique with Digicel (read more in my previous blog, Honduras/El Salvador: The town that doesn't exist) was followed by an attempt to visit a plot of land where the work we had been told about was taking place.

Yesterday I visited some Progressio partners in the place known as Nahuaterique in Honduras. Set high up in the mountains bordering El Salvador, the lush fields of maize, interspersed between a mixture of pine and deciduous forest, belie the fact that many of the 7,000 or so inhabitants are in fact malnourished, only 250 of the 4,000 children can go to school, and the whole population is effect

“We the communities must fight together to prevent deforestation and secure water”, a yellow card reads on the wall of a school in the El Coco community, Honduras. This is one of the traces left by the last meeting of the Forestry Community Consultation Committee, which was formed within the framework of the 2008 Forestry Law, in this corner of the country’s northern coast.

Our special correspondent on the ground asks if Hondurans will be blowing out the candles this week to mark the anniversary of the military coup that swept the country two years ago today (28 June 2011) Exiled President Zelaya returned to Honduras last month and subsequently the country was readmitted to the Organisation of American States (OAS). But, for most Hondurans g

Petra Kjell reflects on the importance of water and the daily struggle to find it. Today is World Water Day. It’s celebrated around the world to remind ourselves of the importance of water.

Mélida Tróchez, who has rebuilt her house four times following severe floods in Honduras, tells Progressio development worker Nuria Zayas her story of perseverance against the odds. Headlines in Honduran newspapers have been catching my eye this month: “More intense cyclone activity expected this year”, ”Heaviest ‘La Niña’ in decades will affect Central Ame

Lizzette Robleto looks back to a hard-won European battle over illegal logging For decades communities in Honduras and Ecuador lived in fear of illegal loggers and their threats, corruption and criminal activities.  There was little hope for an end to this destructive trade because regulating authorities and national governments were constantly undermined. Dishonest loggers a

Water is precious in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, as drought takes its toll on the amounts of water available to local people. Water rationing is becoming more frequent and severe year on year. In a country of gaping inequalities, it is the poorest who bear the brunt of scarcity and who need most help to cope with erratic weather.

  For many farming families in the highlands of Marcala, Western Honduras, Climate change is not an abstract concept. Its effects are clear as you visit the communities. It’s wreaking havoc throughout the country, distress and hardship falling especially on the poorest people. In this part of the world, extreme weather is worsened by climate change, pushing already vulnerable comm