Children of San Jose 
Stick home being visted by Matt malek 
Carrying water up mountainside 
First piped water project in San Jose 
Class teaching how to build improved cook stove 
Finished cook stove 
Fish farm providing much needed protein 
Local farmer and Scorpion peppers she is growing 
Local farmer with radishes 
Clothing distribution 
Cross cultural interaction 
Successful solar system install and a happy family 
The Team applying fluoride varnish to the teeth of school children 
Jackie injecting a patient’s shoulder
San Jose Partners
We are a sustainable community development project out of the University of Rochester Department of Family Medicine and we are glad you have found us! Our Department has partnered with a rural community in Southwest Honduras called San Jose San Marcos de la Sierra. We started working with this community in 2005 and have made great strides improving the health of the local population through a collaborative approach to rural development. Although we are physicians by training, much of our efforts in San Jose are non-medical in nature. For the San Jose community members, lack of safe water and under-nutrition cause more ill health than does their limited access to curative health care. We realize this and create solutions to address the problems, even when the solutions are outside our comfort zone.
News/Updates
The Fall 2023 Trip Report is now available!
- Brief overview of Project Site
- Trip Reports
- Video Fall 2018 – tells what and why we do what we do
- Video journal from October 2016
For those who want more details on philosophy and project-specific information, visit the following link.