Group Member(s): Raweroad, Taiichi, Pathanin, Nattanon

Country assigned: Hondurus

Development goal selected: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Type of Product: Model
Product Description: (Make sure it is clear what the product will look like, what it
will include, and how it will be organized.)

We will make a city model that show political events in each section of the
city. First, we'll start with a wooden board that displays city's geography. Then we'll
add houses and people to our city geography to show human lifestyle in Honduras.
In every city section, we will show human behavior such as people revolt against the
government, crime and suicide.

Summaries: (one paragraph minimum for each section with main ideas only)
Brief background of your country in written in your own words: (post 1900
creation of country + some major events that made the country what it is today)

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It has times that had been referred
to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became
modern-day Belize. Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the
southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific
Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet
of the Caribbean Sea. Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican
cultures, most notably the Maya, before the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth
century. The Spanish introduced Roman Catholicism and the modern-day
predominant Spanish language, along with many amazing cultures. Honduras
became independent in 1821 and has since been a republic, although it has
consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of
the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Honduras has the world's highest
murder rate. Honduras spans about 112,492 km2 and has a population exceeding 9
million. Its northern portions are part of the Western Caribbean Zone, as reflected in
the area's demographics and culture. Honduras is known for its rich natural
resources, including minerals, coffee, tropical fruit, and sugarcane, as well as for its
growing textiles industry, which serves the international market.

Brief summary of the history of the social issue (based on MDG selected) in
your country: (causes of the social issue in your country)
The indigenous people of Honduras developed stratified societies in some
regions very early, and much of the earliest period conditions were shaped by its
division into unequally represented social groups, in which some economic
exploitation took place. Documentation, limited as it was from Maya sites confirms
this inequality which is also observed archaeologically.
 Early Spanish reports likewise speak of inequities in the society, and the
Spanish tended to exacerbate these. The encomienda system while it initially drew
heavily on the older systems of taxation and labor employment used by indigenous
polities, added new elements. The mining economy, at first drawing on laborers from
the encomiendas, increasing used slave labor in the late sixteenth century, and then
as the mines were depleted, also turned back to wage labor.
Low education.
Beginning in the late 1970s, new foreign concerns began the introduction of
maquiladoras, larger more modern factories to produce textiles and other goods.
They were particularly interested in using the labor of young females, to the point
that in much of the industry female workers outnumber male by as much as two-to-
one.
Brief summary of how the social issue (based on the MDG selected) has
affected your country (post 1945): (effects of the social issue in your country
current situation)

High rates of violent crime, police corruption, the penetration of the police by
organised crime, and a wave of selective killings of journalists and experts in the
fight against drugs. Children, youth and adolescents of Honduras, those that are
living in abandoned area have been facing to the significant period of time, when
parent sent their child outside these children will be at a high risk to be exploited or
victimized by a modern day type of slavery or kidnap

The imbalance in employment has led increasingly to problems with the often
unemployed males, and led to a concomitant growth of gangs and violence.
Substance abuse, at first primarily alcohol, and later hard drugs (especially as the
international drug trade has made use of Honduras for the transit of drugs) have
created their own problems.

Brief summary of what your countrys government has done to deal with the
social issue (based on the MDG selected): (policies in place and progress in
dealing with the problem)

In the last years of the nineteenth century, Honduran governments sought to

encourage economic growth by creating incentives for foreign concerns to operate in
the country. The involvement of such companies as United Fruit, Standard Fruit and
others in the northern sections of the country led to concentration of landholdings,
the emergence of a class of North American managers living in separate quarters on
estates, and the importation of migrant workers from the English-Speaking
Caribbean and elsewhere in Central America altered the pattern of small holding
farming that had prevailed in the region before. Many of the new workers were
housed in barracks, frequently came without families and were subject to strict
discipline.

Reference list for the starter sources used: (APA format)

- Globalissues.org. (2017). HONDURAS: The Society of Fear Global Issues.
[online] Available at: http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/12/30/12336
[Accessed 9 Nov. 2017].
- Human Rights Watch. (2017). Honduras. [online] Available at:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/honduras [Accessed
9 Nov. 2017].
- Buckhout, E. (2017). Honduras: A Government Failing to Protect its People -
Latin America Working Group. [online] Lawg.org. Available at:
http://www.lawg.org/action-center/lawg-blog/69-general/1415-honduras-a-
government-failing-to-protect-its-people [Accessed 9 Nov. 2017].