ACTS has 5 main priorities…
Medical & Dental
Agriculture
Public Health & Infrastructure
Education
Local Leadership
… and our volunteers work on a range of efforts.
“Our newly grant-funded Taking Care of Elders initiative supports more in-home attention and resources like this walker for elders dependent on others for daily living”
- Jeff Prileson, Treasurer of ACTS
“In Honduras, more than 30% of kids have stunting. At this launch of our new program Nourishing Young Children, mothers waved their hands enthusiastically to signal their willingness to participate and volunteer as cooks”
- Linda Kennedy, President of ACTS
“To improve the health of livestock, I am working with the farmers on setting up a non-profit, sustainable, veterinary pharmacy stocking emergency medications to treat screw worm and other dangerous conditions”
- Brad Taylor, ACTS Steering Committee Member and Veterinarian
“We were lucky to have the ACTS team see the performances and awards when students in my Level One English class graduated and were recognized for their achievements”
- Keila Licona, Local Honduran ESL Teacher
“I appreciate the professional work Dr. Reina, the clinic dentist, does, from prevention to restoration to extraction. I arrived with about $2K of donated dental materials. In a week, we partnered on fluoride treatments for 91 students in two schools and had 53 patients in the clinic.”
- Dave Bogacz, ACTS Steering Committee Member and Dentist
“My ‘Ask Me Anything About Nutrition’ program was one of several expert-led open discussions for local people. Eating healthy with diabetes was the hot topic here!”
- Laurel Ross, ACTS Volunteer
“In an indigenous community, I took this photo of women who were all smiles as they lined up for Depo-Provera (birth control) shots that would prevent pregnancy until they are ready to add another child to their family”
- Emma Farnsworth, ACTS Volunteer
“Honduran doctor Danil Zuniga partnered with us as driver, interpreter, and roadside physician, treating children as needed in the backcountry.”
- Sue Burgos, Vice President and Health Chair of ACTS
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ACTS depends almost entirely on individual donations of time, supplies, and dollars in order to further our work.