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Youth & Children: International Volunteering Opportunities in Honduras
Jóvenes y Niños: Oportunidades para Voluntarios Internacionales en Honduras
Prepared by Sustainable Honduras Conference: www.sustainablehonduras.org. Preparado por la Conferencia Honduras Sostenible
To include your volunteer programs contact: [email protected]. Para incluir sus programas de voluntariado, contacte: [email protected]
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Organización
Amigos de Jesús Home for Children / Hogar para Niños Amigos de Jesús Honduras Locations
Lugares en Honduras
Website
Sitio Web
Organization Overview
Resumen de la Organización
San José de las Colinas, Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara
www.amigosdejesus.org
Amigos de Jesús is a non-‐profit organization based in Volunteer Programs. Amigos de Jesús offers 3 international Malvern, Pennsylvania. Its mission is to reach out to volunteer programs: (1) Long Term Volunteer Program -‐ 13 abandoned and neglected children in Honduras and months duration. Volunteers provide tutoring and special provide a home for them at their orphanage. Amigos has education. (2) BECA partner program -‐ providing bilingual approximately 100 children in their direct care at Amigos education; (3) Short Term Volunteer Opportunities -‐ Mission de Jesús in Macuelizo, Santa Barbara. They also financially Trips and Summer Camps. More information at: support over 400 more children in other areas of http://amigosdejesus.org/index.php/volunteer-‐program
Honduras and in Guyana. Mission Trips. Amigos de Jesus offers opportunities for Mission Trips during the summer months as part of its international volunteer programs. For more information: http://www.amigosdejesus.org/index.php/volunteer-‐
program/short-‐term-‐volunteer-‐opportunities
www.afehonduras.org
AFE is a non-‐profit organization based in the outskirts of Volunteer Programs. AFE has several different volunteer Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Their partner programs to suit different time commitments and needs. To be organization in the US is Together for Transformation, in considered for a position, volunteers must be over 18 and speak Redmond, Washington. AFE rescues children from the Spanish. Contact [email protected]. Short-‐term municipal garbage dump of Tegucigalpa by breaking the volunteers serve at AFE for anywhere from one month to a year. cycle of poverty through education and holistic Long-‐term volunteers typically make a three to five year development programs that address their needs (physical, commitment. The purpose of the short-‐term volunteer program emotional, intellectual, family, spiritual) from pre-‐school at AFE is to give its participants a deeper experience workingwith through preparation for a career and reentry into normal the children and families of the garbage dump, with the hope society. that their volunteers become advocates for children trapped in poverty. Work-‐Trip Options. Teams that visit AFE are an integral part of the transformation of the garbage dump community. Work-‐trip options include: Week-‐long construction projects; medical brigades; Vacation Bible School projects; and tailor-‐made trips.
Amor, Fe y Esperanza Tegucigalpa, Francisco (AFE) / Love, Faith Morazán
and Hope
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International Volunteer Programs and Trips
Programas y Viajes de Voluntariado Internacionales
Roatán, Islas de la Bahia Bay Islands EIB (Bay Islands)
(Intercultural Bilingual Education) / Coordinación Departamental de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) de las Islas de la Bahía https://www.facebook.com/eib.bayislands
Bay Islands (EIB), based in Roatán, Bay Islands, EIB is one of the regional offices that are part of a national curriculum that supports bilingual/multilingual (English, Spanish, Indigenous, Afro-‐Honduran) education in Honduras. (1) Amigos de Jesus school www.becaschools.org
BECA -‐ Bilingual Education for Central in Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara; (2) San Jerónimo Bilingual America
School in Cofradía, Cortés; (3) Santa Monica Bilingual School in Vida Nueva Cortés, Cortés.
Volunteer Program. Bay Islands EIB is looking for volunteers to teach English. EIB particularly needs volunteers to teach English for grades K-‐3. For more info, please visit their Facebook page-‐ https://www.facebook.com/eib.bayisland
BECA is a non-‐profit organization that recruits, trains, and Volunteer Programs. (1) Volunteer Teaching Program. The 3 supports native English-‐speaking volunteer teachers to bilingual schools that BECA partners with in Honduras provide staff a network of community-‐run bilingual schools in education for kids in grades K-‐3 (Amigos de Jesus), K-‐5 (Santa Honduras that serve low-‐income communities. BECA Monica) and K-‐9 (San Jeronimo). Volunteer teachers are asked to exists to promote cultural exchange and affordable make a minimum 1-‐yr commitment. (2) Summer Camp: BECA bilingual education. Their volunteer driven bilingual also has a volunteer program for summer camp counselors. school model creates an environment in which Central American students learn from dedicated volunteer teachers, and those volunteers learn from the community in which they are immersed. -‐ See more at: http://www.becaschools.org/#sthash.MibAk298.dpuf
Volunteer Trips. BECA has hosted a number of customizable social tourism trips that combine service, education, and relaxation. Participants on BECA's alternative tourism trips have the opportunity to: teach Honduran children ages 4-‐14; be exposed to a unique Honduran community and a innovative non-‐
profit NGO model that operates there; live with a Honduran family; attend educational seminars on social and economic issues facing low-‐income Honduras; visit the ancient Mayan ruins of Copan, tour the ecological preserve of Lake Yojoa, or scuba dive the pristine reefs of Roatan in the Bay Islands Page 2 of 8
Friends of Honduran Various communities in Children Canada / Honduras
Amigos de Niños Hondureños Canadá
http://www.honduranchildr Friends of Honduran Children is a non-‐profit organization Trips/Medical, Educational and Building Brigades. Medical en.com/
whose mission is to improve the lives of Honduran Brigades, consisting of 16-‐18 medical professionals, see up to children and their families by supporting their basic 1,500 medical patients and 500 dental patients during their visit. needs. Working with their long-‐time Honduran partner Building Brigades -‐ Many of the children’s homes at Sociedad Sociedad Amigos de los Niños, Friends rescues the were built by volunteers. Each year brigades of adults and children of Honduras from a life of poverty and neglect. students travel to Honduras to construct houses, schools and They’re given food, clothing, medical and dental care, and improve facilities for the children. Education and Awareness a safe place to live. Programs include: child sponsorship; Brigades -‐ Volunteers of all ages travel to Honduras each year as medical brigades; construction brigades; educational part of their Education and Awareness Brigades. During their ten brigades; the Reyes Irene Valenzuela School for Girls; and day stay at their children’s village, volunteers get the the Flor Azul Boys Community
opportunity to gain an awareness of their work in Honduras. Staying near the children’s village gives volunteers the chance to connect with the children and participate in a variety of activities in the village. For more information, visit their website or contact: [email protected] Hands to Honduras -‐ Tela, Atlántida
Tela/ Manos para Honduras -‐ Tela
www.handstohonduras.org Hands to Honduras -‐ Telais a partnership program bringing together North American and Honduran communities to provide educational, technical, cultural and humanitarian assistance to the Atlántida coastal region. It is part of the Rotary Club of Charlotte-‐
Shelburne (Vermont) Foundation.
Volunteer Trips. Hands to Honduras-‐Tela (H2H-‐T) organizes week-‐long Humanitarian Service Trips for volunteers who want to work on their community projects in the Tela, Atlántida area. Projects include building medical facilities, medical brigades, dental clinics, schools, scholarships, and donating supplies to schools, clinics, fire and police departments, and sports centers. For more info see: http://www.handstohonduras.org/info/index.htm
Hearts to Honduras/ El Progreso, Yoro
Corazón para Honduras
http://hearts2honduras.org H2H is a non-‐profit organization with US offices in Franklin, Tennessee. H2H works in the Honduran villages of El Progreso and now also La Coroza to help them flourish through projects such as clean water, building homes, and education. H2H also supports the Copprome Children’s home in El Progreso.
Mission Trips. Hearts to Honduras brings teams of people to El Progreso to help these communities flourish by working alongside them. Their trips are designed to have an opportunity to work in a village building, stuccoing, painting homes, and playing with the kids daily at Copprome Children’s home. For more information: http://hearts2honduras.org/trips/
Helping Honduras Kids / Ayudando los Niños de Honduras
La Ceiba, Atlántida
http://www.helpinghonduraskids.org
Helping Honduras Kids (HHK) is a non-‐profit Christian Internships. HHK has opportunities for internships/volunteers organization, headquartered in Slingerland, New York, to help with activities such as Youth Activity Interns, Bilingual that manages a Children's Home (orphanage), caring for Teacher's Assistants and Vacation Activities Intern . For more 23 children who have been abandoned, abused and/or information: http://www.helpinghonduraskids.org/volunteering-‐
neglected. They also operate a free elementary school with-‐hhk/volunteer-‐information
(Jungle School) located in the impoverished mountain area outside of La Ceiba. Over 112 students attend. Children receive a quality education, daily devotional, and a nutritious lunch. In addition, they provide food to children and families in nearby villages. Page 3 of 8
Volunteer Trips. Helping Helping Honduras Kids has many volunteers that visit from all over the world to help educate and teach life skills to their children, work on construction projects, provide medical assistance, or aid in food distribution. HHK also appreciates volunteers that desire to share and teach talents and skills with their children, e.g. computers, athletics, dancing, sewing, carpentry, cooking, gardening, etc. In its Jungle School they appreciate bilingual volunteers that have fluency in Spanish; some teaching experience is also beneficial. Possible side trips at the end of the volunteering stay include the Bay Islands, Copan Ruins, nature walks, rafting along the Cangrejal River, or visiting the Pico Bonito National Park, among other things. For more information: http://www.helpinghonduraskids.org/volunteering-‐with-‐
hhk/volunteer-‐information
Leadership Mission International
Villa de San Antonio, Comayagua
http://leadershipmissioninte LMI is a non-‐profit organization based in Portland, Volunteer Programs. Leadership Mission International has rnational.org
Oregon. LMI strives to empower the next generation of volunteer opportunities for: teaching, construction and coffee ethical leaders from developing countries in order for farming. LMI's Leadership Center is located on a large organic THEM to deliver their local communities out of the cyclical farm. The intention of the farm is to supply food for the campus poverty in which they currently sit. LMI educates as well as income to support The Leadership Center. Volunteers motivated high school graduates to achieve its goals. in are needed year-‐round to work on the farm.
Honduras, LMI offers a 3 year Business Leadership Degree to young women who could otherwise not afford a college education, teaching in 3 primary areas: Leadership, Business and English.
Santa Rosa de Copán, Copán www.legacyofhopefoundati Legacy of Hope is a non-‐profit organization with US offices Volunteer Programs. Legacy of Hope has volunteer Legacy of Hope on.org
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, committed to helping the least opportunities of varying durations. For more information, see: Foundation / fortunate children in Honduras. Their mission is to reflect http://legacyofhopefoundation.org/get-‐involved
Fundación Legado de the love of Christ to these children and their families by Esperanza assisting, directing, funding and/or implementing the following programs: feeding programs, church planting, home for orphans and neglected children, Christian education, microfinance.
Little Hands, Big Hearts / Manos Chicas, Corazones Grandes
Trujillo, Colón
http://www.littlehandsbighe Little Hands, Big Hearts (LHBH) is a non-‐profit Mission Trips. Short-‐term visiting mission teams supplement the arts-‐mission.org
organization with US offices in Tigard, Oregon. The LHBH work and activities of the mission carried out by the Honduran-‐
mission in Trujillo, Honduras, began in 1998 and has trained staff of LHBH.
served 30 “special needs” children and their families. The Family Development Center is the site where most of the services offered through LHBH are initiated. Specific ministries include a developmental preschool, women’s sewing program, health and nutrition outreach, home improvement program, and educational programs with the local churches and schools in the Trujillo area. Page 4 of 8
Miqueas 6.8
La Colorada, Yoro
www.miqueas68.org
Montaña de Luz / Mountain of Light
Nueva Esperanza, El Paraíso www.montanadeluz.org
Miqueas 6.8 is a non-‐profit organization with US offices in Long-‐Term Intern. Miqueas is always looking for qualified Dunwoody, George. They operate Hogar Miqueas, a home interns to who want to make a 1-‐year commitment to help in an for children in need, where there currently are ~40 area of the intern's interest. Miqueas believes in plugging its children. Miqueas takes in children from all across interns into areas that they take particular interest in. Miqueas Honduras who are neglected, abused or abandoned. has projects for social workers, teachers, business, agriculture, Miqueas believes that the best way to help them is to psychology, physical therapy, ministry, and more. For more info, provide them with parenting, and a stable family. They visit the website: http://miqueas68.org/get-‐involved/intern-‐
help develop the children physically, emotionally, trips/ or email: [email protected]
mentally and spiritually, to ensure they grow into prosperous and outstanding adults.
Group Trips. Miqueas organizes group trips of 7-‐8 days in duration for churches, schools, clubs, etc. who want to have a week of services in another country. For more info, visit the website: http://miqueas68.org/get-‐involved/intern-‐trips/ or email: [email protected]
Montaña de Luz is a faith-‐based non-‐profit organization, with US offices in Worthington, Ohio, which creates a loving home and provides comprehensive care for children with HIV/AIDS in Honduras. Their purpose is to love and care for these vulnerable children, empower them with knowledge and resiliency to grow into productive members of the community, to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS while working to eliminate discrimination and prejudice of people living with HIV, to facilitate bridges of understanding and compassion. Service Trips. Montaña de Luz welcomes teams from churches, schools, universities, colleges, social and civic organizations, neighborhoods, families, friends and open groups of individuals seeking to spend a week of meaningful service. Service trips include a day of sightseeing and can be scheduled year-‐round by groups, with a minimum of ten and maximum of eighteen people per team. For more information: http://www.montanadeluz.org/service-‐trips/
Orphan Helpers currently http://www.orphanhelpers. Orphan Helpers is a non-‐profit 501(c)3 organization with Mission Trips typically last one week in a designated city in Orphan Helpers / US offices in Newport News, Virginia. Orphan Helpers is a Central America. Team members work each day in an orphanage Ayudando Huérfanos serves in 8 government-‐run org
centers in El Salvador and Honduras.
Orphanage Emmanuel Guaimaca, Francisco / Orfanato Emmanuel Morazán
multi-‐denominational Christian ministry dedicated to and/or detention center doing sports, crafts, games, serving and ministering to the spiritual, emotional, construction, etc. educational, and physical needs of orphaned, abused, and Vision Trips are 4 or 5-‐day trips with the ministry's Founder or incarcerated children. They focus their work in Staff member, helping you "catch the vision" of Orphan Helpers. government-‐run orphanages and detention centers in El A Vision Trip is designed to introduce you to nearly every Salvador and Honduras.
orphanage and detention center where Orphan Helpers works in a particular country. They are fast-‐paced trips that offer a thorough overview of their programs as well as a personal introduction to the children they serve. For more info: http://www.orphanhelpers.org/Trips/tabid/125/Default.aspx
http://orphanageemmanuel Emmanuel Orphanage is a non-‐profit organization with Volunteer Programs. Volunteers from all over the world visit hn.weebly.com
US offices in Auburn, Alabama. Emmanuel currently Emmanuel year-‐round, offering their talents and skills to houses and cares for over 500 unwanted, abandoned, and improve the quality of life for the children and staff. Volunteers abused children of all ages in Honduras. Emmanuel is a from Denmark come through a volunteer preparation program, Christian organization whose vision is to evangelize and "IMPACT," and those from the United States or Canada may disciple children so that they may grow up to be good coordinate their stay through Andi in their main office -‐ examples in the ways of God.
[email protected]
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Team Visits. Emmanuel has many teams that visit throughout the year. This has been vital to the ongoing existence and improvement of Orphanage Emmanuel. If you are interested in visiting Emmanuel as a team, please contact Andi Longest at [email protected] to schedule your stay. El Progreso, Yoro
Organization for Youth Empowerment (OYE) / Organización para el Empoderamiento de Jóvenes
www.oyehonduras.org
OYE is a non-‐profit organization with US offices in Washington DC that works with the youth of Honduras. OYE focuses on youth development. OYE seeks to supplement, facilitate, and go-‐beyond what at-‐risk Honduran youth learn in their home and school environment. OYE engages and builds youth leaders through partial, merit-‐based high school and university scholarships, capacity-‐building and leadership workshops and community engagement initiatives in arts and sports.
Volunteer Programs. OYE currently offers both week-‐long volunteer trip opportunities as well as longer-‐term (6 weeks+) volunteer opportunities for individuals. For more information: http://www.oyehonduras.org/en/volunteer/
Volunteer Trips. OYE offers a volunteer experience that is based on cultural exchange and collaboration. Over the span of a week, OYE strives to provide a well-‐rounded experience that leaves their volunteers with a better sense of Honduran reality and the feeling of being a part of creating positive change in Honduras. OYE accomplishes this by offering a variety of academic, cultural and community engagement activities, all of which promote cultural exchange and interaction between the volunteers, OYE scholars and the local community. For more information: http://www.oyehonduras.org/en/volunteer/
Providence (Providence World Ministries) / La Providencia
Siguatepeque, Comayagua
https://providenceworld.co Providence World Ministries is a non-‐profit organization Volunteer Programs. At La Providencia, there are employment m/la-‐providencia/
based in Nashville, Tennessee. In Honduras, they operate opportunities for non-‐Hondurans for teaching in various subjects La Providencia -‐ a best practice, family-‐based community where the children speak English during their classes. These of care for orphans and at-‐risk children. La Providencia positions are available to qualified individuals who raise funds to houses, feeds, clothes, educates, provides medical care, cover their own salaries. Additionally, three-‐month, one-‐year, and provides loving families for 96 orphaned boys and eighteen-‐month, and two-‐year internships are available to those girls. In addition, it feeds, clothes, educates, and provides who are interested in volunteer service with Providence for an medical care for 96 other at-‐risk children from the local extended period of time. These internships are available in our community. These children will be given a family Folsom, CA office and at La Providencia in Honduras. Contact: environment, spiritual nurture, high-‐quality education, [email protected]
and practical training to enable them to live spiritually fruitful lives and take their places as leaders in Honduran society.
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Mission Trips. The organization facilitates developmental relationship-‐building trips to La Providencia and the surrounding communities by churches, schools, and other organizations who focus on helping move La Providencia toward self-‐sustainability. Mission teams can help with construction projects, teaching, VBS programs, soccer clinics and art & music classes. In addition, La Providencia serves children as well as adults throughout Honduras with medical missions teams that conduct orthopedic, hernia, cleft lip and palette, dental, and eye surgeries. Contact: [email protected]
Send Hope / Mande Esperanza
Miskito Coast region / La Mosquitia
www.send-‐hope.org
Send Hope is a non-‐profit organization that helps the people of the Miskito Coast region in Honduras. Send Hope focuses on 4 main areas: short term medical, dental and construction trips; providing items such as food, school supplies and clothing; helping children with medical needs in Honduras and the U.S.; and helping students achieve their educational goals.
Programs. Send Hope operates the House of Hope to house partially disabled children whily they continue their education at the School of Hope The School of Hope has approximately 50 children enrolled. If interested in volunteering, see the contact infornation on the Send Hope website: http://www.send-‐
hope.org/contact_us.php
Group Trips. Send Hope hosts several group trips a year. For more information visit their website and contact info: http://www.send-‐hope.org/contact_us.php
Shoulder to Shoulder Department of Intibucá
/ Hombro a Hombro
http://shouldertoshoulder.o Shoulder to Shoulder is a non-‐profit organization with US rg
offices in Dayton, Ohio. Shoulder to Shoulder offers basic health care, advanced medicine, dental services, education, community health programs, and nutrition to over 36,000 rural Hondurans. In forming an alliance with the Honduran Government and the Ministry of Health, Shoulder to Shoulder employs over 100 Honduran staff. Shoulder to Shoulder’s doctors and staff living in the US are 100% volunteer.
Long-‐Term Volunteer Opportunities. Shoulder to Shoulder welcomes all types of volunteers, especially if you have skill or interest in education, primary healthcare, dental, public health, or nutrition. In the education field in particular, they are always looking for people who have a passion for teaching or assisting in our educational programs, including the Camasca Bilingual School, Yo Puedo Girls’ Empowerment program, and after-‐school teaching activities throughout the region. For more info: http://shouldertoshoulder.org/volunteer-‐opportunities
Brigades. Shoulder to Shoulder hosts brigades of 1-‐2 weeks in duration. The brigades cover many areas including: health (primary care, dentistry, pharmacy and specialty health services), health education, professional development and training for its staff, construction and maintenance projects, and teaching English. To schedule your brigade please contact Connie Gregory at Fellowship Travel International ([email protected]). For additional questions, contact Sharon Mullen ([email protected])
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Villa Soleada, near Tela, http://ceciskids.org
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Estudiantes Ayudando a Honduras
Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is a non-‐profit Service Trips. SHH organizes 8-‐day Service Trips throughout the organization with US offices in Fredericksburg, Virginia. year for volunteers who want to help build a school or tutor kids. SHH is focused on ending extreme poverty & violence in There is opportunity to experience the Honduran culture and a Honduras through education & youth empowerment. SHH field trip to the beaches of Tela. For more information, visit the is working to build 1000 schools in villages across SHH Volunteer website page: http://ceciskids.org/volunteer/
Honduras. In addition to school construction, SHH also runs a bilingual elementary school, 2 homes for orphaned and abandoned boys and girls, a college scholarship program and a village project called Villa Soleada. Villa consists of 44 homes with various community projects within.
Summit in Honduras
Departments of Santa Bárbara and Copán
http://www.summitinhondu Summit in Honduras is a non-‐profit organization based in ras.org
Breckenridge, Colorado. Summit provides outreach to impoverished families and children in rural Honduras. Its mission includes medical outreach, education, literacy, clean water and construction projects.
Mission Trips. Summit in Honduras organizes at least one medical trip per year. They have had many doctors, nurses, and EMTs from all over the United States participate in these missions and welcome all who would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the Honduran people. Summit also has construction missions; and, in addition, have taken various youth groups and students from Summit High School.
UrbanPromise Honduras
Copán Ruinas, Copán
www.urbanpromisehondura UrbanPromise Honduras is a non-‐profit organization with Volunteer Programs. UrbanPromise Honduras (UPH) volunteers s.org
US offices in Pennsauken, New Jersey, as well as offices in primarily serve as assistants to the After-‐school program Surrey, BC, Canada. UrbanPromise's mission is to inspire director, working with the director in the development of the children and youth of Honduras to fulfill their dreams curriculum, activities, buying supplies and running the by equipping them with the skills necessary for life operations of the after-‐school program. UPH can help arrange management, academic achievement, spiritual growth Spanish classes through the local Guacamaya Spanish language and leadership rooted in the Christian faith. school. A minimum commitment of 4 weeks is expected. More UrbanPromise operates After School Programs, Youth info: http://urbanpromisehonduras.org/get-‐involved/volunteers
Programs and Summer Camps.
Service Learning Group Trips. UrbanPromise offers group short-‐
term volunteering opportunities for churches, schools, businesses or families. For more info: http://urbanpromisehonduras.org/get-‐involved/service-‐learning-‐
groups This compilation of volunteering opportunities in Honduras was prepared primarily from information available in the websites of the organizations included in this table. The purpose of this table is to enable the sharing of information about international volunteering opportunities in Honduras.
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