The Screen Team Helps Local Village Families

The Screen Team and the Village Medical Teams traveled to Chunox, a remote village about 1 hour southeast from Corozal. The road to Chunox is a narrow, unpaved dirt road. Potholes all along the way make the ride slow and bumpy. Most of the landscape to Chunox is bushes, trees and sugar cane. There are a few small villages on the way with very modest homes made of either block or sticks.

Two rivers have to be crossed on the way. And there are no bridges! To cross each river, there's a small ferry which hold about 3 cars or vans. The ferries are powered by muscle! No motors. A hand crank (i.e. fly wheel) is turned hundreds of times to move the ferry from river side to river side. Nate Wilson helped the ferry worker turn the crank.

Once we arrived in Chunox, the 10 Screen Team members loaded up in a truck owned by one of the local pastors, Rafael (more on Rafael later). The group drove around the village and screened the windows of dozens of homes. They also repaired a few leaky roofs. Walls of most of these homes are made of sticks about 2 inches in diameter. Most have thatch roofs whereas some have metal. Windows are typically just wooden slats which open and close. Without screens, bugs and mosquitoes easily come in and can infect families with disease, commonly malaria.

The Screen Team will serve 3 more villages over the next 3 days.