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(music)
One of the truths of the human condition is
is that suffering binds us together
and that is why it says to our troubled souls
peace
be still.
and that is why it says to our troubled souls
peace...be still.
This is my country. This is Honduras
It is located south of the United States
bordered by El Salvador
Guatemala and Nicaragua.
It is a very difficult life for the people here.
They work every day of the week to sustain a family
of six or seven members.
These people have a great heart and they are very
humble and kind. They are great people.
I am Luigi Breve ' Mazzoni. I live here in
Honduras. I live in the capital city of
Tegucigalpa.
I come from Discovery School with this
brigade to help the doctors translate
(music) peace...
be still.
(music continues) peace. Be still.
Here we are at Fabiano Cruz's house
Better known as "the ropeman". There are no
windows, no air conditioning, no electricity
no water. This is the main living room
which has two hammocks where all six
children sleep.There is a chicken in the
corner right there, but that is just part of their
life.
Chicky...Chicky..Chicky...
(photographer asks) Do you have chickens in
your room? I don't have chickens in my room.
This is what the typical kitchen looks like
and they still use ancient cooking methods.
They cook with a wood stove.
But in many houses here in San Marcos
The stove is actually in the middle of the house
and that is a big problem because that causes
many respiratory system problems and also
eye irritation.
The homes in rural areas don't have
indoor plumbing running water and the
bathroom is outdoors.
You can probably hear the animals and relax
but imagine if it is raining. You get all wet.
That is not funny at all.
If you need to take a bath you need to go to the
nearest pond or river and you need to take it
with a bucket.
In Honduras, education is a privilege.
Not everyone gets the chance to get it. Those
who do are very grateful.
This is the daily trail that these children and
teachers have to walk. They walk these every
single day. It is a treacherours and exhausting
trail but you have to do it.
This particular school has thirty students per grade
It is mixed both girls and boys. It's only one
teacher for an entire class and it goes up
to the seventh grade.
They have a math section, social science section
and they have books, desks but they don't
have air conditioning, they don't have
computers. It's not completely like it is
in the United States. But that is pretty
much what they have.
(music)
Cape Cares sends nine teams a year to my country.
They provide medical and dental care for the people
in three poor rural areas.
El Algodonal, Los Encinitos, and San Marcos de Lange'.
The three sites are located in the south mountainous
area of Honduras.
The roads are not paved and they are very dangerous
to travel. There is no access during the rainy season.
Here we are at the San Marcos medical brigade
where we have both doctors and dentists.
Patients we have are telling us they walked
two hours, three hours, four hours and they
have been waiting for over three hours because
of the amount of patients they have. But these
doctors do their best
to help all the people who need the help
We did a surgery to a woman, she had a bump on her
head like a ball. The ER doctor aspirated it,
she was very calm and followed all the
instructions and it was an amazing operation, successful
She was lucky that the ER doctor was here.
She really thanked the doctor and I thanked the
doctor also for coming.
There was a child who apparently was running
through a field and he got a stalk in his
lower leg. Dr. Warren decided to do surgery.
When you saw it, it was this big and the mother
was shocked that he had it for over four months.
The amazing thing was when they took it out
he did not cry at all. He was just smiling.
(music)
Here we are at the pharmacy, where the word
in spanish is "farm-ah-see-uh".
We have the patients come in after the
prescription they get from the doctor.
Here we have Bob that gives them the dosage
and the proper directions on what they need.
This is where the translator is really important
and they need to pay attention and to understand
how they are suppose to use the medicine.
(music)
(the dentists)
This is where the action takes place.
Here we are with several dentists working on
extractions. This is Dr. Theodos. He takes
the most complex cases. He is a
Maxillo Facial Surgeon.
Some cases can be one tooth or a mouthful.
This is a really extreme case of rampant cavities.
and
Most patients have multiple teeth that are
decayed. Left untreated will probably go on to
massive infections. You are looking at least at ten
maybe twelve teeth that he would benefit getting
removed.
(music)
Local villagers don't take proper care of their
teeth. They drink too much sodas, they eat a lot of
sweets, lollipops and eat sugar canes a lot.
If they are lucky enough, they get to go to
the restoration over there where they
actually put a filling in to save the teeth.
Over here we are at the restoration site
where dentists are trying to say the teeth
that are not completely decayed or rotten.
First what they do is clean all the decayed area
and then put the filling in.
After the dentists are done with their dental
tools they go here for a sterilization and
cleaning. They go through several stages of
sterilization. Here we don't have any electricity
so we just have two choices to do this. The
first through chemicals and the second one
through heat. Pressure cook.
We are loading it up with the morning's instruments
and you have a little water at the bottom to
make the steam. You have a propane stove
we will try to light.
In about a half hour we will open this thing.
up again.
So I will lift off the safety cap and we will
open the pot in a second when this little
things goes down.
And there we have some well sterilized instruments.
(music)
All of the supplies and donations such as
toothbrushes flouride and the money that you
donate is used to treat the people here.
You are probably wondering what happens with
your donations.
Well, here they are. We have the toothbrushes
that are being separated between adult and children.
We take them to our schools and give them to children.
It is very important because we teach
them how to brush their teeth properly and we give
some of them to our patients that are
being treated in the dental area.
Cape CARES is doing an amazing job they have
amazing doctors with great hearts.
They can see the conditions that some people
live. They really know what these people go through.
This is really painful and really bad.
It really shocks you to see how Cape CARES
can help the people and the impact they are for
this community, this society.
So I want to say that it is very gratifying
to come here with Cape CARES and I hope that
I can come back sometime.
I am very thankful and appreciative that
some people have the room in their heart to
come here, all the way to Honduras. Stay
in places where there is no electricity, no water,
mosquito bites, animals. But they come here.
They help these people. Otherwise the people
would never get the proper medical or dental
attention. So I thank you for helping my people
and helping my country, Honduras.
(music
Come To Honduras!
That's our welcoming committee. We want them
to see how happy our last customer is so
they won't be afraid.
They went to the school yesterday and this
child Jose Melvin Perez Gomez made this
thank you card
Ola' is Hi in English. Hi!
Es Guapo!(is cute!)
They kind of take over your hearts. They
like, steal your heart and just keep it.
(laughter)
When you leave, you'll never get it back. (background) Yeah!
Audios! (goodbye!)