MHL continues with one of our most important programs - clean, drinkable water for many villages.  Paid mostly by Local, District, and International Rotary money through 'Water For Life' Le Mars Rotary, MHL accomplishes a great deal. The Gehlen High School student team was able to bring clean water to the village of La Florida in the spring of 2010.  In February, 2010, the Briar Cliff University team worked on a water project in Santa Rosa. In each case we expect the water to be chlorinated and able to be used for drinking. Most projects require the digging of a well and constructing a water tower with a tank, purchasing a pump, digging trenches from the water tank to each village home, laying water pipes, and hooking up the system.  We need your help and support to continue bringing clean, drinkable water to those in need. 

	40,000 children throughout the world die every day from malnutrition, starvation, & hunger-related diseases One child dies every 5 seconds due to hunger-related causes Malnutrition severely affects a child's intellectual development 80% of people in rural Honduras use surface water sources, causing many health problems 50,000 Honduras children under the age of 5 die each year from water-related diseases 3 billion of world's population live on less than $2 per day, including Honduras

'Then Feed Just One' Food Program
   Another one of our programs involves direct food aid to those in Honduras most in need.  MHL teams up with Gehlen Catholic School and ...Then Feed Just One to pay for the shipment of food to Honduras through the '...Then Feed Just One' program. Each year the entire Gehlen student body assembles packages of meals.  The meals are comprised of rice, soy flour, dried vegetables, salt, sweet dairy whey, protein, soybean oil, and flavorings. The spring 2010 packing event at Gehlen produced 140,000 meals.  Combined with meals from other packing events, MHL and ...Then Feed Just One were able to ship five containers of food to Honduras. Without the network established by MHL, we would not be able to do this.  These shipments of food were distributed to several different locations in Honduras: Tolupan of Montana de la Flor, El Guante Clinic, Suyatel Clinic, Malnutrition Center Sulaco, 50 HIV Kids in Progresso, 60 street children in Progresso, the Clinic in San Juan, Mother Teresa's Orphanage in Tegucigalpa, and the slums of Tegucigalpa.  After four years' shipment of food to Honduras, the information we are getting about the food's effect is outstanding.

Faith takes the word IMPOSSIBLE out of our vocabulary.
	Charity should begin at home but should not stay there.                             ~ Philip Brooks

During the past four years, MHL has been involved in many other and varied interests.  A few examples of those can be found by clicking on MHL projects.

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