Program areas at Helping Honduras Kids
1. Hogar de Amor Children's Home. There were 27 children in our care. We take care of each child and provide them with their food, clothes, shoes, school supplies, books, vitamins, medical assistance, transportation to school activities, church, and excursions. We provided for their complete physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.2. Jungle School - Kindergarten to Ninth grade with 200 students, eleven classrooms and twelve teachers, including computer and English teachers. The school is for low-income children. The children come from various communities in the Cangrejal river basin and surrounding villages. The children of the Hogar de Amor also attend this school. We offer a full lunch and a snack to each student on a weekly basis. We give them school supplies, uniforms, and shoes for those most in need, plus schoolbooks, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. We have a nurse who assists the school children with health checks, medications, daily vitamins, deworming medications, and maintains health records for each child. Medical exams are also offered to parents when they need it.With school closed due to COVID-19 through the month of March, the children did their homework at home on the phone app, WhatsApp, in groups for each grade. Teachers created worksheets and shared them with parents. The child completed the work and then forwarded these worksheets back to their teachers via Whatsapp. For the children who did not have Internet, a Spanish and mathematics notebook was printed and given to them to work on. This only affected approximately 10 children. The rest did their homework on WhatsApp. The school re-opened in April and children returned to classes onsite. 3. Peasant villages - La Bomba (Jutiapa, Atlntida), El Bonitillo (La Ceiba, Atlntida) and El Naranjo (El Naranjo, Atlantida). There are approximately 300 families with 600 children, and we give them fortified rice, beans, clothes, shoes, and on holidays (Christmas and Children's Day) toys and piatas, etc. Volunteer groups also visit and provide medical check-ups and preach the Gospel. We also help older people in these communities and single mothers. This was more limited due to the pandemic in the first three months of the year. 4. Feeding Centers - We provide fortified rice to a kitchen run by a Christian church in the community of El Pino to feed 125 children and also to several other small ministries in the community of El Porvenir.We help more than 900 children and people in the four monthly programs.