Education
Education is a powerful tool for transforming lives while providing children opportunity to dream and achieve their aspirations
Many children and youth in Honduras face significant challenges like poverty, lack of resources, and low academic performance, that put them at risk of dropping out of school or falling behind and prevent them from reaching their full potential.
Through our Sponsorship program, you can support scholarships and after-school activities that help overcome the barriers that interrupt formal education and develop skills, talents, and values for students from elementary to university level.
350+
students sponsored since 2003
74
High School graduates
7
College graduates
28
High School students
17
College & Trade school students
Mountain of Blessings Sponsorship/ Afterschool Program
There are 5 local schools in the San Matias villages, providing the opportunity for local children to receive elementary education in grades K-9.
Two of those schools have only one teacher imparting six grades at the same time in one single classroom. For the rest of schools, teachers are facing classes too large to be able to give enough individual attention to truly help each child succeed.
At home, parents are struggling to provide the basics to keep their family fed and housed. Leaving little or no time to help their children with schoolwork that in many cases is beyond what little school they themselves received.
That’s where the Mountain of Blessings Sponsorship/Afterschool Program comes in. The program combines in-classroom support with after-school homework assistance and tutoring. Plus computer classes, Internet access, and spiritual formation classes to truly help students reach their potential.
High School & College
High school, as well as college, is in Tegucigalpa, if students can get there. Most families in the area do not have transportation readily available and it’s definitely too far for students to walk.
Therefore, they must use public transportation that costs 35% of household income on average per student. The more children in the family, the less opportunity to study beyond 9th grade.
For most of our students, our support program is the crucial difference.
Without help, they may not even complete elementary school. Which means few, if any, prospects for work other than at a subsistence income.
With your help, students can get an educational foundation that allows them to explore a greater variety of opportunities, locally or elsewhere. Building a future for themselves. Helping their family and their community.
2 ways you can make a difference for the children in the San Matías area:
Sponsor a student
As a sponsor, you can be an agent of transformation and help open doors of opportunity to many children
Sponsorships are available in 2 levels:
Support a student
If you’d like to build a close relationship with your sponsored student(s), this is the perfect option for you.
$50/month or $600/year.
Support a class
Ideal for anyone who wants to support our educational program while remaining behind the scenes.
$50/month or $600/year.
Every student in our program receives
You can help us offset the constant increases in transportation costs by doubling your contribution to $100/month for students from 10th grade to college.
Give to scholarship fund
The scholarship fund helps support unsponsored students with all the things listed above, in addition to helping offset transportation costs for all students in high school and college.
Scholarship fund donation:
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