20—Lancaster Farmlnj. Saturday. Feb. 8. 1975
Area Youth Serves
IContinutd from Pi|t l|
(o their villages with
equipment and initial
medicine supplies to begin
their work."
The girls charge no fee (or
medical attention but sell the
'equired drugs in order to
make money to reinforce
their own supplies."
The village must supply
the house or building for the
medical technician although
most of her supplies arc
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As a volunteer, Linda did
not hove any formal
orientation and did not speak
the native Spanish language
when she first began her
duties.
"It took me about a year to
leant Spanish well enough to
communicate with the
people."
Undo explained that the
clinic has been very well
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accepted lincc Its inception
in the early 70‘s.
"Many of the people In the
surrounding areas use our
services and some walk 3-4
hrs. from the outlying
districts also."
Although many of the
villages send girls to be
trained some of the more
backward people under the
Influence of "quack doctors"
will not conic to the clinics or
send their girls to be
educated.
"In those types of villages
we do not force our services
on them since the doctors
have too much rigid in
fluence."
Often, the medical team
from the clinic visits the
village centers to check on
the work of the technicians.
It was on one of these trips
that Linda had an experience
she will never forget.
"We were going to a
village that was out in the
mountains, we flew by a
small plane to one village
and from there we were to be
taken by mules on a 4 hour
ride to the village we wanted
to inspect.”
“We were late getting
started through the moun
tains and we were forced to
ride the mules on mountain
roads during the dark. I was
very frightened and was
very happy to reach the
village that night.”
“It rained and was cloudy
for the next day and our
plane could not land at the
first village to pick us up - we
had to wait until the next day
which made us somewhat
apprehensive.”
When asked how the
conditions differed in Cen
tral American country Linda
commented in this manner.
“The large cities are much
like our US cities with large
modem buildings and most
of the comforts.”
“The -'ch people live in
ranch - /le type houses
while the poorer people live
in adobe houses with tile
roofs.”
Linda explained that most
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In appreciation of her volunteer work, Linda’s
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of the larger cities have months,
movies and sports and even The main subsistence for
the smaller villages have the villagers is agriculture
stores from which to select with the main crop being
items. coffee. The village people
“American style food can
be purchased in the large
cities Linda explained “but
in the small villages the
people usually eat beans,
corn, rice and tortillas.”
Very little meat is eaten she
explained and then it is only
about once every one or two
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raise their own crops but
coffee is the main cash crop
involved.
An interesting note on the
agricultural aspect was
revealed when Linda
remarked about the far
mers’ crops.
“When the crops fail or a
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natural disaster occurs such
us the Honduran flood, the
farmers must absorb their
own losses os the govern
ment offers no subsidies."
In some of the cities, in
dustry offers some em
ployment however not
enough to substantiate the
whole country.
The work always keeps
Linda busy although she
admitted that there is some
free time for swimming and
going to movies In the main
cities.
Linda has been a volunteer
for the past year and a half
and is planning on continuing
her work with the Honduran
people.
Linda has been a member
of Farm Women Society 3
and plays the piano as well
as sews when she is home.
She was also a member of
the Jolly Caterers and the
Lincoln 4-H Club.
While not every young
person can travel to other
countries Linda has much
moral support behind her as
the young people’s group of
her church appreciates the
work she has done.
A few weeks ago when she
was home for a vacation,
Linda received a silver plate
from the group inscribed
with a message that rein
forced their pride and ap
preciation of her work.
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