Fleeing Honduras and whats being done for those left behind
Marcia Biggs:
Because of incidents like this one, police who are trying to do right by the communities are struggling to gain their trust. Law enforcement has received U.S. dollars for new community policing and outreach program, sending national police officers to schools to speak to students and funding this day camp. But out of the 8,000 children in this sector of Rivera Hernandez, only 100 can attend this camp.
But just down the road, Jeremias Vobada is giving the children in Rivera Hernandez —and even some adults—another opportunity for free — training future electricians for jobs that can pay up to 20 dollars per day, more than twice what they can make working in a shop or selling water on the street.
Together they walk down the road, past a river of sewage to the abandoned building that pastor Danny Pacheco is fixing up. It will be their classroom for the day, as they begin the basics of electricity installation.
His students range in age. Marvin Marcier is fifty-two years old. He lost his job at a brewing company and needs work. He shares the class with nine year old Isaac, who is on a winter break from school. In Honduras, even a fourth grader knows he has to learn how to feed his family.
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