Shaji of Huntingdon Valley Assists with Service Project at Honduras Orphanage with Widener University Over Spring Break

2015 Mar 23

Shania Shaji , a Sophomore Biomedical Engineering major at Widener University from Huntingdon Valley, Pa., recently spent Spring Break in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to assist with a sustainability project concerning food security. Shaji was one of nine students enrolled in the spring course at Widener titled Honduras: Languages and Cultures. The trip was one component of this course.

While in Honduras, the Widener cohort assisted Zamorano University in building a mini farm at a nearby orphanage. The Widener participants contributed rakes, shovels, machetes and pickaxes to the operation. Students will continue to support the farm by raising money for electrical controls for a pump for irrigation using the well on the property.

Once completed, the farm will allow the orphanage to raise chickens and grow grains, corn, vegetables and fruit to feed the children, and excess will be sold in the Zamorano grocery store, so that the orphanage can buy meat and other items with the profits. In the future, additional model mini-farms will be set up across Honduras.