Education & Training
Part of Everything We Do
CAMO is setting a new standard for health care professionals in Honduras. When CAMO establishes a service, improves a facility or installs new equipment, education and training are always part of the process. CAMO is the sole National Training Center for the American Heart Association in Honduras and is the country’s leading provider of health and safety courses. Each year, more than 1105 Honduran professionals participate in CAMO-facilitated training and education programs.
CAMO at a Glance
2024-2025
Total Patients Served
Boxes of Medical Supplies Donated
Pieces of Medical Equipment Donated
Volunteers in Honduras and United States
Total Students Educated
Medical Training
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IMPACT
The surgical program provides care to improve vision for over 3,527 people each year.
Teacher Training
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IMPACT
The surgical program provides care to improve vision for over 3,527 people each year.
Community Education
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IMPACT
Accurate research and data allow CAMO to find solutions to the problem. CAMO also offers preventive education, teaching people to combat the leading triggers of stomach cancer by drinking clean water and taking in enough micronutrients.
Literacy Programs
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IMPACT
“I teach my counterparts ways to do surgery to avoid incontinence. Many of these men would be stuck with a catheter bag for life. For whatever reason, about half of them have no families; so like men everywhere, they won’t come back for follow-up. A lot of my patients here truly are the forgotten.” – Paul Crowley, MD
Student Development
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IMPACT
“I teach my counterparts ways to do surgery to avoid incontinence. Many of these men would be stuck with a catheter bag for life. For whatever reason, about half of them have no families; so like men everywhere, they won’t come back for follow-up. A lot of my patients here truly are the forgotten.” – Paul Crowley, MD
Trade Schools
As the number of children living on Honduran streets continues to increase, so does the need for constructive programming to engage these children in skills-based training activities. With this goal in mind, CAMO has pledged its support to the technical school which has re-opened its doors to reach out to young men and women by providing a work-skills curriculum.
The program trains participants in various trades including:
Culinary Arts | Masonry | Electrical Tech | Carpentry | Welding | Sewing | Computer Skills |Cosmetology
In 2004, CAMO was asked to intervene and help with the failing trade school. Up until that time, the school had an ineffective board of directors. CAMO found top leaders in Santa Rosa for the board, became temporary president of that board and increased the student body from 0 – 700 students. CAMO continues to sit as a permanent board member at the school. After reforming the board, CAMO took it upon itself to do a campaign to acquire donated equipment specific to the different trades. To date, the trade school continues to graduate over 700 students each year.
The construction of the adjacent women’s shelter by way of an adjoining door also allows recovering women to access trade courses as well. Such education empowers women to support themselves, strengthening them to escape their situations of domestic violence.
IMPACT
Between 300 and 1000 people are attended annually in the courses and workshops. These students are able to have a profession which allows them to make a living and provide for themselves and their families.
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