When Paradise Become Painful
Protecting Roatan’s Hearing, Health—and the Peace Paradise Requires When I lived in the peaceful village of Sandy Bay in the early 1990s, roosters crowed, dogs barked, and occasionally a teenager…
Saving a Vanishing Voice
How the Royal Reader Program is Helping Bay Islanders reclaim their English Heritage. Who?W-H-O!Twenty-three children chant the letters in unison inside a small classroom in Coxen Hole. To a casual…
A community lifeline: the story of Charmont Learning Center
They don’t fit into mainstream society. Some raped or bullied. Orphans, homeless, or medically fragile and have witnessed horrors no child should see. And some endured awful abuses. Lack of…
Tino and Alejo Monterroso – Legendary Dive Masters of the Bay Islands
Long before Roatan became a world-class dive destination, two young islanders were slipping beneath its waves with little more than a mask, fins, and a speargun. Tino and Alejo Monterroso—descendants…
Hope for adults with disabilities
Higuero Many believe that people with disabilities on Roatan have been forgotten and abandoned by Honduran society. North in the village of Higuero in the middle of the island of…
A young island boy with ambitions
He stands at a crossroads in life, having just graduated from elementary school. He has a clear plan and path to follow, but will he make it? Meet a young…
