La Botija

Yesterday we began construction of an elementary school located in the Botija Forest. This is the mountain located directly behind Las Palmas. It's a beautiful piece of flora that has been remarkably well preserved. I say remarkable becuase so much of the forest in southern Honduras has been destroyed. This piece is slowly but surely dissappearing as well. There is need for a one room school house that serves 24 children. We found out about the need and decided to help. The community has done much of the work for free. The site for the school was leveled off by the fathers of the children. Our head mason, Juan, will prepare the foundation for a group from Indianapolis, Southeastern Church of Christ, that will come in November to actually build the brick walls. The setting for this school is breath taking. Right on the edge of cloud forest, with coffee plantations all around. Even though my drive up there yesterday to drop of Juan was bothersome since i had many things to do, the trip up the mountain trail through the forest made it worth the while.