This Saturday we visited the national reserve called “El Chile” with a group of youth. The idea was to give the youth the opportunity of spending time experiencing the beauty of their own country that they so rarely get to see. We went there with a guide who showed us around the reserve and at the same time explained the importance of thinking about the environment to preserve sites such as this. After talking for a while about the park and environmental issues, the guide took us to a waterfall where we made a barbeque meal on the grill that we had dragged along walking through the mountainsides. We enjoyed the time spend at the waterfall and later moved on to a river where we had the opportunity to go swimming, something most of the youth had never tried before. It was a day of fun and a bit of learning for the youth, and it was an opportunity for us to build relationships with them, which always makes it easier for us to work with them in the future. Our project spends a lot of time and resources warning and creating attention about the dangers that are very real in Honduras, but we believe it to be important also to show the beauties of the country so that our youth might be passionate about being Honduran and wanting to improve and fight for the positive sides of their country.
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