San Jose, Honduras

This is the village in Honduras that Ram goes to every year as part of the Shoulder to Shoulder (Hombro a Hombro) group. They have a clinic in this village, which is up in the mountains, and this group has run it for over 10 years. And twice a week (I think), some of the doctors get on a caboose (ass) and travel to the neighboring villages, which cannot be accessed any other way. Ram broke the camera on his very first day in the village, when he attempted to jump across a river, slipped and dropped the camera. But these were the pictures he had clicked before that happened.





I love his stories about his trip to Honduras. The village has no electricity, so every night, all activities end by around 7pm. Ram and his friends would tell each other ghost stories for hours and hours, and then be terribly scared to have to get up and go to the bathroom at night. Every morning, they would get coffee from beans plucked from a field behind the building, freshly roasted and ground every day. And Ram would try out his Spanish on the patients who came there. He claims that Spanish sounds just like Hindi and that he would end up substituting Hindi words for words in Spanish that he didn't know, and would still be understood by the locals :)
Here's a picture of the examination room at the building