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HOMBRE
As part of HOMBRE – the Hondoras Outreach Medical Brigada Relief Effort – VCU medical students travel to rural Honduras the summer after their first year of medical school to provide Honduran citizens with basic clinical care, 
health education and more while allowing medical students to put their caring and beliefs into action. For 10 days, students work alongside physicians, nurses and pharmacists to help residents of two rural Honduran sites by working with families in clinics, visiting patients in their homes, providing care in schools and initiating public health projects, such as clean water filter programs. HOMBRE students spend the school year before their trip raising funds to support travel and purchase medication and supplies for their Honduran patients.
Last year participants began a longitudinal child health initiative to care for and track children’s health, including serial measurements of height, weight and hemoglobin level, as well as providing dental varnish, vitamin A, albendazole and multivitamins.
VCU students and Honduran residents have been benefiting from this caring partnership for 10 years and counting. HOMBRE changes lives — not only in Honduras but also at the VCU School of Medicine.
Get involved
To support this program or get involved as a volunteer, contact Steve Crossman at crisscrossman@yahoo.com.