Just got back from 4 days and 3 nights in a really rural village in the mountains on the Honduran-Salvadoran border. No running water, no electricity.
I went with a group of college students from the U.S. who are spending the semester traveling through Central America working with various organizations focused on the environment and sustainability. They organized this part of their trip through the Wheelers, so I got to tag along.
We took a van (8 students, 2 leaders, 1 lena) about 4 hours south into the mountains. In the village we stayed in one woman's home. All of the houses were isolated from each other and you had to hike along this rocky path to get from one to another.
We worked with Fundacion Simiente, a partner of Heifer Project, which works in the community building wells, creating irrigation systems, and promoting food sovereignty. The foundation is also working on creating a small forest preserve which they hope will generate some eco-tourism.
Pictures: the van we took, a town we stopped in on our way down
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