As its name suggests, Honduras Primero is an organization that puts "Honduras primero" - "Honduras first." The mission of this remarkable charitable effort is to advance the culture and economy of this unique Central American country. Honduras Primero is a nonprofit affiliate of E³ - the Electronic Empowerment Enterprise.

Honduras Primero is currently in the process of answering one of the pressing needs of all "third-world" countries: reliable cost-effective communication between isolated villages/communities to the outside world.

Thus Honduras Primero is beta testing innovative, dependable, and low-cost computer-based communication links between isolated inhabitants and the Internet:

*CompuCharity --

1.) Placing a few donated computers in schools, community centers, and/or clinics currently serving a poor community.

2.) Designing user-friendly (and indigenous-friendly) programs and procedures whereby that communities respected authority figures (missionary, teacher, doctor, etcetera) are trained by to:

. a. compose messages to far-away outsiders (their home-base, hospitals, suppliers of food, medicine, tools, etc.)

. b. assist and train the community to use a computer for their own

. i. education (from basic language skills to academic learning)

. ii. using our specialized e-mail programs to send personalized messages domestically and internationally.

Thus our operations solves a crying need from those humanitarians serving poor and remote peoples throughout the world: educating the populace and getting messages to the outside.

Big Question:

. How to get the message from various remote base computers to the outside world?

. VIA E-MAIL AND THE INTERNET!

. How is that possible?? -- E ³ to the rescue:

Honduras Primero is currently designing and implementing hardware, software, and user-friendly procedures and programs for indigenous Hondurans, and those missionaries that serve them, to communicate to the outside world by:

Composing their e-mails on the community computer then scrambling their individual messages via their personalized password then saving the info on the hard drive. The person in charge will periodically copy all the current messages onto a floppy disk (or two).

Honduras Primero has two novel basic means of getting that disk's data out into the Internet (for standard delivery to the e-mail addresses of the various senders' intended recipients.)

LEVEL I :

Once that week's or month's messages are on the disk(s) the person in charge of the operation (missionary, doctor, teacher) gives the disk to a trusted courier who is traveling (o'er hill and dale) to the nearest computer that's linked (by phone or other pipeline) to a standard ISP (Internet Service Provider). That courier, or someone at that site, will be trained to load the disk on that computer -- then the E³ software/program will automatically unscramble the community's various messages and send them out to the Internet for standard delivery to their respective destinations. Before the disk is removed it will be loaded with incoming messages destined to that community's residences and the reverse procedure is done at that time or when someone else is traveling to that particular community.

LEVEL II :

Instead of being hand delivered, the data is periodically transmitted to the nearest E3 receiver that automatically sends the messages onto the Internet. E3 is researching small-scale computer-assisted low-wattage wireless communication links between isolated communities/villages and its receiver to thus send messages to and from the Internet.

We are also exploring means to erect small-scale alternative energy generators for groups of families or villages. This would not only power our communications equipment but water purification too, in addition to helping the various missionaries that are currently on site keep in touch with their home base -- especially in emergencies.

The E-Powerment Effort

Our program to bring computers to remote desolate villages is dubbed "E-Empowerment." Using computers to access to the World Wide Web emboldens our youth who experience their independent power to access information. And is especially effective for self teaching of various skills and market their services around the globe. It also allows the underprivileged to express themselves and communicate directly to philanthropic and business groups that might donate to them directly without a nonprofit or charity or government middleman (this would especially be vital in areas of the world where corruption siphons off charitable supplies ). So eventually we may, with adequate controls and checks & balances, donate or sell/barter equipment very cost effectively to low-income entrepreneurs in ...bad parts of town ... and later to individuals & families... ...in need.

The Bob & Ken Charity Show:

1.) Text books and other school supplies (and stuff we take for granted); equipment for purifying water; supplements; geo-positioning black box (for Wings of Hope and others); ILMs; nutrient dense food; Solar, Wind and Tesla power generators.

2.) Capital investments and other means to self employ the poor, and help them capitalize on their individual talents; establish barter clubs and "barter banks" [The specific program for those who want to trade for used computers could be called "Barter for Bytes."]; invent means for modern-money wire transfers;

3.) (In the U.S. particularly) Lobby and publicize the need for true free-enterprise zones;

4.) I will provide documentation with written reports and photos and thank-you letters for each placement. I do photo and photojournalism work.

The founder and director of Honduras Primero is Robert Louis S. I refer to him as the "techno-missionary." My name is Ken Bush and I'm the Director of Communications and Press/Media Relations.

Bob has extensive experience in evaluating computer related operations and contracting his services as a creative computer consultant -- streamlining and troubleshooting a wide variety of operations from jet fighter manufacturing at MacDonald Douglas to Barnes Hospital's bio-medical unit, to the Post Office's bulk mail handling. Bob has a professional expertise not only in computer hardware and design but software writing and network links and WEB design.

Specifically our work and progress over the last year is focused on improving the critical communication needs of remote villages and small towns in rural Honduras, setting up our innovative communication links to reliably and more easily keep them in touch with the outside world. Thus on-site missionaries and clinicians that already serve parts of the indigenous populations can better assist those in need. But unlike many charity representatives or government agents, when Bob's in the back country he "bunks down with the natives," sleeping on mats on their dirt floor and eating their humble meals; gestures of devotion that endear him to the locals -- and builds their trust -- and helps him to better learn of their needs and wants.

Another vital role that Robert continues to accomplish is traveling the countryside volunteering to repair and update computers and medical equipment that some (fortunate few) clinics, schools, and community centers already have.

To a somewhat lesser degree Robert continues to solicit and personally transport medical supplies and clothing to the poor in isolated parts of Honduras.

The 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