Honduras Trip 2025

Members of Muskegon Rotary joined with those from Grand Haven Rotary and partnered with a Honduran organization called Chispa, to build a library in an elementary school on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.  The school, Jose Angel Ulloa, serves 349 students, K-6th grade.  The school applied for a Chispa Library about a year ago (there is currently a wait-list of over 500 schools!) and has been preparing diligently for the library installation for several months. 

Excitement was high the entire week, as we worked along side teachers, students, administration, and community leaders to:

  • paint murals on the library and classroom walls,

  • build bookshelves,

  • inventory 750 new books, and

  • assist with classroom activities. 

All of us gathered together at the end of the week to officially inaugurate the library with a ribbon cutting ceremony.   If you'd like to learn more, talk with Sarah Rinsema-Sybenga, Marcia Hovey-Wright, Linda Juarez, Tara Foreman, Jamie Hekker, or our student participants Addie Witmer, Landon, Elias Rinsema, and Emerson Foreman. 

 
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