Archive for April, 2010
Just got back from El Porvenir . . .
April 29, 2010 by admin, under News.
Hi, this is Eve! – - I am the volunteer coordinator for HondurasChildren and I just got home after a week in El Porvenir. The current volunteers are working on a newsletter to send out about what’s going on in the kinder so I’ll give an update on how things are with volunteers. 
Our volunteers are just GREAT! We are so fortunate to have amazing long-term volunteers from all over the world working with not only the children in our kinder but also supporting several additional projects in the El Porvenir area.
Our volunteers are helping to start a five day a week English program in the public schools. They are working at an evening IHNFA program to help 6th graders gain the necessary skills to move up to ‘collegio’ (high school). They are helping with the brand new El Porvenir volunteer fire department and giving homework help and remedial skills to children at a local orphanage. YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!!
Our current group of volunteers is from . . . Spain, Lithuania, the UK, Israel, Sweden, Canada and all over the US. The summer will bring us folks from Australia, Switzerland, Germany and India . . . Our friends from Peacework will be back as well with groups from Duke University and VA Tech.
During Semana Santa a few weeks ago we had a return visit from the First Presbytarian Church of Marietta Georgia. Our children had a great time and we really appreciate the hard work and fun activities the group did.
- – - Oh and our friends from Amigos of Honduras (who have supported HondurasChildren in so many ways) will be coming by for a visit next week as well. I wish I could be there!
Lots of great energy in El Porvenir!!
If you would like to come and volunteer as an individual or part of a workgroup, an application can be found on the ‘volunteer’ page of this site. If you can’t come personally, the next best thing is to become a sponsor. We really appreciate folks who can sponsor a child or a project on a monthly basis. We are all volunteers so donations go right into the projects to help the children. Contact Karen at sponsor@honduraschildren.org if you’d like to become a HondurasChildren sponsor. . . . And please contact me (Eve) at volunteer@honduraschildren.org if you’d like to come and volunteer!
Thanks to everyone for all of the good work you are doing and an especially a BIG THANK YOU to Amalia and Charlie, two of the nicest and most caring people on this planet, who started the kinder in their side yard and who keep it all together and running great!
Abrazos,
Eve
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Ofer’s pix
April 4, 2010 by admin, under News.
Ofer C. from Israel is a current volunteer at the kinder and is living at the beach house. Click on this link for some great pix from January, February and March 2010. – - http://picasaweb.google.com/ofer16/ElPorvenir#
La Ceiba, HONDURAS