Welcome to CHIMES
Bud & Jesus 2008 Trips
Every day in thousands of places around the world millions of people suffer needlessly because of a lack of basic healthcare.
Preventable diseases go untreated because of poverty and a lack of education. Many people parish from maladies that are simply unheard of in more affluent places. A lack of doctors, nurses and medicine coupled with little knowledge of basic hygiene make some lives intolerable.
Poverty, neglect and outright discrimination keep those afflicted out of touch with basic care.
“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”-R.F. Kennedy
In Honduras, we have taken RFK’s challenge and have helped to build a health care system that includes a hospital, a network of doctors and an organizational effort that can deliver the basics of life to a segment of Honduran society that has long been neglected.
We have helped build a hospital in a remote area that serves over 20,000 people. We have delivered an ambulance to an area that once relied on foot travel and horseback for emergency service.
We have also helped supply medicine to save lives and to improve the quality of those lives. We have set up 9 libraries in remote villages that have never had a library before. We have repaired a community services building in a very poor village that had no resources. Medicine and technical support to the staff that works full time in these remote areas have been delivered.
But as the American Economy enters a cooling off period, we find our friends in Honduras facing a magnified need. Even in our own bad times Americans still want to reach out and help fellow human beings in other lands. Hope you can join us on April 17th to learn about our recent trip.
Project CHIMES (California Honduras Institute for Medical and Education Support) is a Sacramento, California-based non profit dedicated to raising money to help indigenous peoples in Central and South America gain access to basic medical services.
You can read about our first important project, helping the Garifuna people on the Caribbean coastal region of South America, on our projects page. Their story is an extraordinary tale of survival, adaptation and endurance spanning two continents and 350 years, and they need our help to ensure that they can remain on the land which they've inhabited for hundreds of years.
In order for us to continue our important work, we need your donations today. Click here to donate using our secure online system from PayPal, and we will put your valuable contribution work helping these indigenous people get the basic services they deserve.