Our Home in Honduras

The children of Honduras find a loving home at OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS since 1986. At present, 527 children and adolescents are living in our facilities in La Venta and Tegucigalpa. During the past year we were able to house 60 additional children. In the capital city we support single mothers with low income by supplying a day-care center.

Why your support is so important:

• More than half of the population is living in poverty
• 17 % of the children under five years of age are malnourished
• One fifth of the Hondurans can not read and write*

After the coup d’état on the 28th of June, 2009, the number of human rights violations increased. Numerous people had disappeared, they had been imprisoned or murdered. The coming to terms with these violations of the human rights is an important task for the new administration of president Porfirio Lobo. The children can least defend themselves against violent assaults. Almost 15% of the Honduran population is under 15 years of age.**

*Source: World Bank
**Source: World Health Organization (WHO)

Our facilities and programs:

• Facilities at the children’s village of „Rancho Santa Fé“:
  • HOUSES – Babies’ house, boys’ house, girls’ house, volunteers’ and employees’ house, visitors’ house
  • CHURCH – weekly mass, baptisms and other religious events
  • AGRICULTURE - Breeding of cattle, poultry and fish, fruit- and vegetable-growing
  • CLINIC – Dental practice, laboratory, pharmacy
  • SURGERY CENTER – Surgical intervention by external surgeons and operations by medical brigades
  • PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL - Preschool: kinder garden and „preparatoria“ (according to Montessori method), elementary school (6 years) and middle school (3 years)
  • VOCACIONAL WORKSHOPS: Vocational training as carpenter, electrician, welder, shoemaker or tailor (degree with state-approved CADERH diploma)
  • CASA EVA: Elderly home
  • CASA PASIONISTA: Hospice for adults suffering the final stages of aids (located on NPH grounds and run by priests of the catholic congregation of the Passionists)
• Facilities in Tegucigalpa:
  • CASA DE LOS ANGELES – Home for severely disabled children and adolescents
  • CASA SANTA CATARINA, CASA MONSEÑOR FIALLOS, CASA CERRO GRANDE AND CASA ALTAMIRA - Dormitories for younger and elder students
  • CASA ALISTAR – Student’s dormitory, public relations office
• Special aid programs:
  • Amongst others HIV AID PROGRAM, LÍDERES JUVENILES („youth leaders“), PROGRAM FOR VOCACIONAL INTERNSHIPS, PROGRAM „HERMANOS MAYORES" (adolescents who have already left NPH; so called „older brothers“)
  • Neighborly help
  
  
  

  You can help within the following categories:

  Living	Agriculture	Food
  Education	Clothing	Medicine

  
  
  
  

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