Interview with Karen Morris, CTMC ancillary services administrative director and Honduras medical mission trip director

Full interview with Karen Morris. Video by Meghan Speakerman.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGdXihauLU

Central Texas Medical Center's Mission

Central Texas Medical Center has teamed up with Pan American Health Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting malnutrition, to help impoverished people in Honduras.
In the last five years, CTMC has gone to Honduras seven times, and last year they helped over 1300 people in just four days.
The organization operates a nutritional rehabilitation center in the mountains of North Western Honduras in Peña Blanca. The center was started in 1965 by Texan Dr. Stephen Youngberg. Patients range in age from 18 months to adults.

Photo by Jenna Box

Alicia's Story

Photo by Jenna Box

Honduras is a country where one in every four children is suffering from malnutrition, as 75% of the rural population lives in extreme poverty. Karen Morris, Central Texas Medical Center administrative ancillary director, said this is due to a lack of education, proper medical facilities and a care.

CTMC’s most recent trip to Honduras put them in contact with thousands of patients; however, one child in particular made a lasting impression on the group and is still loved very deeply by Morris, CTMC Honduras mission trip director, and the volunteer staff.

About Pan American & the Youngbergs

Pan American volunteers. Photo by Dagoberto Fernandez

To find out more information, or to 'Like' what Pan American Health Service, Inc. is doing in Honduras, visit their official Facebook page.

Photo Gallery

Photos by Jenna Box

Karen Morris, CTMC ancillary services administrative director and Honduras medical mission trip coordinator, shared personal memories and reflections about her past trips to Honduras.

Pictured behind Morris is the wall of CTMC volunteers.

Baskets, coffee and hats made by Hondurans will soon be sold in the CTMC gift shop.
All proceeds will go directly back to the Honduran people.

Photos by Dagoberto Fernandez, Pan American Health Service staff member

About Us

 
Meghan Speakerman is a journalism major at Texas State minoring in business. She is a contributor for The Austin Chronicle and enjoys writing about fashion, food and popular culture. After graduation she hopes to further her freelance writing career and maybe move up the catering ladder into event planning. She pursues a variety of interests but reserves professional writing as her main goal. 

 

 Rachel Barnett is a current Texas State honor student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in professional writing with a minor in journalism.She has a passion for writing and hopes to one day become an editor for a major newspaper company. Rachel recently took her own mission trip to Acuña, Mexico and experienced firsthand the joy of helping those in impoverished circumstances.

Jordan Gass-Poore' is an English, mass communication at Texas State University- San Marcos. She is the assistant trends editor for The University Star, a contributor for Slackerwood, an Austin-based film blog, and an intern for LMG Communications, a San Antonio-based boutique public relations firm. After graduating in two years, she would like to teach English in Spain and eventually settle down in the Greater London Area, writing for the national daily newspaper, The Guardian.

Jenna Box is a Journalism major at Texas State University, minoring in International Studies. She has completed a few personal projects as a freelance writer and will apply for an internship at the NPR affiliate station, KUT News in Austin, next April. After graduating, she plans to complete her master's degree in Journalism and begin building a career working for an international news organization.