Honduras Conference to Draw Over 200 Delegates

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- projecthonduras.com announced
that the 10th annual Conference on Honduras in Copan Ruinas, Honduras will
attract over 200 people from more than 100 organizations involved in
humanitarian and volunteer work in the country, including international
non-profits, medical brigades, churches, civic clubs, universities, companies,
and agencies. The event on September 24-26, 2009 will draw representatives
from several Rotary Club chapters, Episcopal dioceses and other faith-based
organizations, as well as USAID and universities such as Dartmouth, Northern
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Southeastern Louisiana.

"We are on pace to have about the same number of conferees we normally have
despite the recent political events involving ousted president Manuel Zelaya,"
said projecthonduras.com co-founder Marco Caceres. "I think the kind of people
who usually attend each year have a good understanding of the situation on the
ground in Honduras, and they feel confident that things are relatively calm
and stable."

The conference is the premier networking event for those working on grassroots
development projects in Honduras in the areas of education, healthcare, clean
water, caring for orphans, HIV/AIDS, micro-credit, alternative energy, and
sustainability. In the past decade, it has attracted more than 1,000 people
from Honduras, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, New Zealand, and nearly
every state in the U.S. The goal is to network and exchange information so
that there can be more coordination.

"There are tens of thousands of volunteers from thousands of groups who are
quietly empowering the Honduran people," noted Caceres. "We have many
innovative models for effectively dealing with the kind of social and economic
problems that keep three-quarters of Honduras' population in poverty. The
conference, along with our online network, is designed to get individuals to
share what they have learned and encourage them to partner with each other.

The Conference on Honduras represents the third part of a three-step strategy
for creating an alternative development model for nations based on information
and communications technologies (ICT). The first part was the creation of the
projecthonduras.com website, which serves as a clearinghouse of information
about Honduras. The second part was the creation of online forums, including
social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter, to allow people to
communicate easily.

The Conference on Honduras 2009 (http://projecthonduras.com/conference) will
be presented by projecthonduras.com and sponsored by Special Missions
Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit.

SOURCE projecthonduras.com

Marco Caceres of projecthonduras.com, +1-703-385-1992, ext. 104,
hondopost@yahoo.com