Its is so good to be back with the staff and volunteers here in Honduras. Being here only 5 months, ago, it feels like we’ve hardly been away and I’ve really felt welcomed and at home. There is none of the formality and sounding out of eachother, that you often get the first time you go to visit a partner, and we were straight into jokes and laughs as we spent out first day in the office.
Its great to hear the good news of friends and people we had met last time…of V, who is now working as a lawyer fighting for womens rights, and B a young person we met on the Februar project a few months ago (read about that here) , who is now speaking on their behalf on national youth platforms, and to meet her mum, who now volunteers herself on community projects. The office here is always so busy and full of young people, sitting, chatting, working, it has to have the best atmosphere of any office I’ve worked in in the world! We’re planning to all go dancing one night…and to make it to the Karaoke we never quite made it to last time.
There is of course the bad news too, a good friend who has been battling drug addiction is ill again and no longer well enough to carry volunteering as a youth worker, and we heard more stories of killings of young people.
But all in all, its so good to back amongst these guys who so quickly become friends, as well as colleagues. They are all making jokes about my improving spanish….hopefully next time I come I’ll be able to understand the jokes!!
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