Honduras: Promoting Community-Based Tourism

by Jessica Sherman — Greengrants staff

October 08, 2007

El Cacao is a poor, rural community in Honduras where people struggle to make a living. There was no sense of real possibilities for change until the community decided to develop its own ecotourism project to create a brighter future for this village of thatched-roof, mud-floored huts, for the children with big bellies swollen from parasites in the water.

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Make sure to view the photos from Jessica Sherman’s recent trip to Honduras and her visit with several Greengrants grantees.

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