The Honduras Project A Mission among the people of honduras

The Honduras Project

School Supplies......

The average family in Honduras earns about $1,200 a year. Yes, you read that right! $1200.... a year! It is easy to understand why so many people live as they do here. It is also easy to understand why anything beyond essential is not part of daily life. This includes education. I know one could argue that education is essential, and we would agree, but when one’s choice is to feed their children or send them to school, food trumps school, every time. So there you have it...the cycle of poverty continues. One thing we know to be as true here in Honduras as it is back home in the U.S is that parents want the best for their children just as you and I do. They want them to go to school. They know an education is what can change their future. Families often send their children to school even without buying any of the supplies they need hoping that they will still learn. And they do, to some degree, but what ends up happening is the children do not continue because they can not engage in the learning experience when they don’t even have a pencil and pad of paper. The average cost for a child to be prepared for school can be as much as $175.00.... this is nearly 2 months income.....

Mi Esperanza...

In November, Mi Esperanza received a grant from Delta Kappa Gamma International for the start up of a 3rd sewing school. We chose a location in Santa Ana, Honduras, 30 kilometers from the capital city. This classroom will allow us to serve a new demographic and area of women in Honduras. Women who were too far from our current locations can now take advantage of what Mi Esperanza has to offer. The class opened with 30 women all eager to join the class and have the opportunity to learn a new skill. This location will be a permanent classroom location with the vision to bring more of our training classes to the Santa Ana area.

Honduras is among the poorest in Western Hemisphere:

• per capita income of only $1,030

• 64% poverty rate

• infant mortality rate of 34 per 1000

• chronic malnutrition rate of 33%in children under 5

• average adult education level of 5.3 years

• HIV/AIDS infection rate of 1.8% of adults

• rapid deterioration of water and forest resources

Sources: 2004 World Bank estimates, US Agency for International Development

"What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.” James 2:14-18

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