Agros Blog

First impressions. Some times they are so important. Some times together with intuition they provide so much information. And then there are times when they don’t even begin to scratch the surface.

Have you ever been to an Agros village? What were your first impressions? Poverty, sickness, people, mud huts, beautiful children, tall corn, dirt, smiles, new smells and sights. Crops, dirt, water, dirt houses, tin roofs. How do you get behind and below?

This week I visited “Brisas del Volcan”, the most recent village in Honduras. Here are my first impressions I would like to share with you.

The white washed houses of the nearby community… the rocky access road… the property manager trying to hand the keys to Victor, the Executive Director for Agros Honduras, and Victor standing aside so that the property manager had to give the keys to the community president… the somber faces of the men in a line… until a woman shared the story of how they, the women organized and then convinced the men that this was possible… walking along a path of freshly cut grass to see a beautiful waterfall and seeing it for the first time with many of the villagers… hiking up to see a breath taking view of the land, of the water flowing down the mountain and the changed faces on the men as they shared their plans for planting corn and beans so that they would have food for their families.

Listening to their excitement was contagious These were new friends eager to share with me their joy and dreams for a different future. It all starts with land… providing hope… to produce, nourish, and sustain life.

That’s the essence of Agros and I hope that your first impressions will continue to surprise and challenge you as you become involved through this blog and entire site.

Along with the lives of men, women and children… in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico and here… join us and venture with us as we move beyond first impressions to understand what is behind, below and beyond.

See more photos of this trip here!