The groups represented 11 denominations including Roman Catholics and included members from 5 to 83 years of age. Participants came from more than 30 U.S. states and five other countries. Most of the groups helped those left homeless by Mitch to build new homes, but teams also participated in working on libraries, schools, water projects, and a coffee cooperative building. In many communities where the volunteer work teams have lived and sweated, residents are now living in safe and dignified homes. While most of the teams have gone to the countryside, several have stayed in Tegucigalpa, helping work on some of the 111 houses finished to date in the capital and the nearby communities of Talanga and Jicarito.
Construction work goes on constantly.
At any given time, some 15 CCD-supported houses are under construction in the capital. Most built to date have been with beneficiaries chosen by local pastors, but work is now increasing with homeless women who are part of the Visitaci n Padilla women s organization. Construction in Tegucigalpa has been slowed by lack of appropriate land. Gay Christians come out of closet in Honduras Excluded from traditional churches, homosexual Christians in Honduras are forming their own congregation with help from the largest homosexual denomination in the United States. According to Nelson Arambu, a leader of the Violet Collective, it was the first formal worship experience for gays and lesbians in Honduras.