Twenty-eight Huguley Memorial Medical Center employees and family members traveled to Peña Blanca, Honduras this Spring for a mission trip benefiting Pan American Health Service. Smiles were plentiful, snakes were occasional and hot water was nonexistent during the mission, which was unanimously considered a success.
Established by Dr. Stephen Youngberg in 1959, Pan American Health Service is a non-denominational Christian agency that fights childhood malnutrition and provides basic education and medical assistance to local impoverished children. Additionally, it runs a children’s home for approximately 70 children.
This mission built on the work accomplished during the hospital’s first mission trip to Pan American Health Service in April 2007. Volunteers divided into teams to provide medical care, continue dormitory construction and conduct a children’s Bible school.