Over the last half year, Robert Stockhausen has been helping with two UNESCO solar villages(the first in Central America) and fixing or installing computers and a variety of medical equipment at various schools, clinics and missionary outposts on both the mainland and on Roatan island. For a few months he's even helped some schools and government offices avoid or fix their Y2K computer glitches. When the Honduran government needed an official delegate to represent the country at an international conference on technical standards and nomenclature, Bob was appointed.
In addition to these and other techno-vocations, he continues to periodically coordinate, and at times purchase at his own expense, standard but-still-indispensable necessities for donating to the rural poor: clothing, various low-tech household gadgets, some food; and toys and occasional costume jewelry for the kids. Bob solicits and /or purchases these items himself and also does the delivering using public transportation where feasible, and for remote areas uses borrowed vehicles.
One of the reasons he's visiting back in St. Louis is to solicit a donated pickup truck.
Bob's an official consultant, web-page designer, and photographer for the planned International Children's Museum. The institution is cosponsored by the World-Bank.
On occasion he ghost-writes the technical parts of speeches and public-policy papers for some Honduran government executive departments and periodically for the First Lady too. And on occasion he has been a technology consultant to the Honduran Ministry of Science and Technology.
Finally, as an accomplished photographer, Bob has to date snapped about 4,000 digital photos of Honduran families, their neighborhoods and environs, and their culture. We dub this free-of-charge indigenous-sensitive service "Ethnocentric Photos." His portraits, touching and endearing, capture the enduring spirit and dignity of rural Hondurans living a rather meager and simple life off the land.
He has donated some his pictures for various missionaries' web sites, U.N. brochures, and several publications like the ones produced by the Honduran Ministry of Science & Technology. He has occasionally given away to other missionaries or charities a CD chock full of nearly all his ethnocentric photos.
A g e n d a --
You can request an outline of our plans for innovative communication and energy assistance primarily to those that already minister and serve needy indigenous populations worldwide. (Some of our projects titles are: DonationiTracking, e-PonyExpress, and e-AirMail). We are working to try out and then beta test various systems in Honduras before implementation elsewhere. In fact, the nonprofit group Mission de Los Ninos has already requested that Bob do his techno-thing for their planned community centers and schools in Nicaragua. And the chief of AirCare, Continental Airlines charitable arm, has made a request for Bob to render his novel techno-plans for Guatemala too.
S t. L o u i s ---
To these ends, Bob has just returned to St. Louis, his original home town, to:
1.) Get a new digital camera and upgrade his personal portable computer equipment.
2.) to line-up contacts and recipients for our future programs to stimulate the curiosity and expand the intellectual horizons of local children. Such Honduras Primero program's include School-to-School "LearningLinks," ePenPal, and E-doption.
3.) collect clothing, toys, and kitchen utensils. He's even gathered low-power flourescent lights and rechargeable batteries for villagers without electricity or lights.
4.) Solicit and transport, to some Honduran clinics some medical equipment (like ultrasound scanners and vitamins for the charitable Oak Ridge Community Clinic serving the poor in Roatan, a Honduran island off the mainland coast).
5.) Soliciting a pickup truck for him to more easily traverse the hills and dales of Honduras to enable him to personally deliver and implement the above objectives.
F u t u r e ---
In summary, Bob's vast interdisciplinary expertise holds great potential for helping the less fortunate by a creative synergistic integration of applied science, engineering, and computer technology. Such contributions of a techno-missionary will help those in need directly and by helping those that serve them -- missionaries, doctors, teachers, et al.. He's dedicated the rest of his life to fulfill his dream of preserving the cultural heritage of indigenous people while helping the poor help themselves raise their own standard of living through a worldwide distribution of the wealth of knowledge and equipment that now serves as the technological infrastructure of our modern society.
For more information:
Ken Bush (314)994-0000 (Contact Page Here)
Dir. of Communications - Honduras Primero
St. Louis, MO, USA