Just added: Here is a summary of needed items on our donation list.

 CAMO needs your help.   Following are some suggestions how you might become involved.
 
GROUP PROJECTS: Can you or your group pledge to make or collect the following?

• Making Baby bundles which includes:
• 2 diapers
• 1 Receiving blanket
• 2 Infant T-shirt (no one piece that button under the crotch)
• 2 diaper pins
• 2 item such as baby powder comb lotion etc.
• Collect used hearing aids
• Collect used eye glasses
• Collect used prosthetics

• Sponsor a Honduran medical professional to come to the USA or other training institutions  ($1,000.000)
• Sponsor children's dental care.  The Dental Program treats over 600 children per month (Cost $2.00 per child)
• Sponsor books for the bilingual school ( We can buy used text books in good condition for $2.00 per book)
• Sponsor a medical volunteer. Medical Volunteers are Honduran doctors who travel to villages with no doctors in them. These Honduran doctors see 90 people each visit.  Materials /fuel cost is approx. $5.00 per patient (Sponsor a day $450.00)
• Sponsor a day screening school children for hearing problems.  We can screen 30 children per day cost of program ($1.00 per Child or $30.00 per day)
• Sponsor the purchase of nebulizers (wholesale $48 per unit). Children will die daily because they lack necessary nebulizers for treatments.  These little machines save lives everyday.

• COMMUNITY CENTER/GYM - The City of Santa Rosa de Copan has a population including suburbs of 43,000. Of this population over forty percent are under age of +twenty-one.   They do not have a single enclosed gym with a rainy season that last up to six months (not even the schools have a gym).   The community has been working for 10 years to build a public gym and was able to put a roof over this facility two years ago.  The building has the center floor to play basketball but the rest of the facility is incomplete and with mud floors. The estimated cost is $30,000 to finish the electrical wiring, plumbing installation, floors and the walls.  Children in Honduras need a safe place to play.  In Santa Rosa we have approximately 17,000 young people who need this facility.  All the schools would use this facility.
• Public Clinics are in disrepair.  We have evaluated seven clinics and each one ranges from $10,000 to 45,000 of repairs needed.  Many safety issues present themselves, such as unsafe electrical wiring, ceilings that have collapsed on patients, roofs that leak, no screen on window in a high malaria area, no plumbing so staff cannot clean wounds or wash their own hands.
• Day Care Center. Day care is needed for single working mothers. Every day this center takes care of about 60 children.  The food needs and the early stimulation needs are great.  This facility is in need of mattresses for sleep time, play items, funds for food.  Children Spanish literature and other educational supplies are also needed.  The day center structure has a leaky roof, plumbing, and electrical issues.   One day of food cost is one dollar per child.  Structural repairs would cost $20,000.

• Coordinate a small collection project
• Daily Prayer
• Increase our network of need oriented service in Honduras

• Respiratory Therapist        (To teach)
• Neonatalogist        (To counter-part with other specialist)
• Ear, Nose, Throat specialist
• Operating Room Nurse
• Spanish/English Speakers    (Fluent translators)

Thank you for your time.  I hope this give you some ideas.  Please do not hesitate to contact us at the following:

• email:   camo@camo.org
• Phone:      330-683-5956 -- or -- 330-313-1000
• Fax:    330-313-1001