Last Year’s Service Trip to Honduras

The purpose of our Service Trip to Honduras was to strengthen our relationship with our partner, and to evaluate how we could better match the needs in Honduras with our resources at Penn State. We traveled through several different regions of Honduras over ten days. This experience allowed us to interact with the local community and evaluate the effectiveness of the ‘Access Granted Fund’. We were also able assess if there were other gaps in the system we could help alleviate with resources at Penn State.


Through this service experience, students were able to witness first hand the real issues of access to care and what it meant to individual Honduran lives. One twelve-year-old girl who was being seen by Dr. Schwentker had two clubbed feet and needed multiple surgeries and procedures in order to be properly treated. She and her siblings had been unable to attend school due to the bus fair needed to travel. From this, and many other stories, GlobeMed students saw another need. In Honduras there is also a lack of access to education. In the future, GlobeMed hopes to be able to respond to this need with an education fund and a micro-loan program that would allow children access to education. Giving children access to education will secure better economic stability and a brighter future for many Hondurans.