Rotary in Honduras

Since 2018, we have concentrated on the Merendon area, an isolated village 2 hours by auto and 2n a half by mule. 19 houses. A school was built with a solar panel system providing computers n internet

In an effort to facilitate tax deductible donations, we have formed a US based organization that is approved as a 501.3c by the IRS. We are based in Seattle. Honduras United 4 life is the name of the organization. Address at 2801 28th Ave W Seattle, Washington 98199. Bi-annual I go to Honduras for 3 months at a time. My goal is to find the isolated and remote 1 room kindergarden schools and furnish them with desks and school supplies. I also promote youth education in the trades. We support a rehab program in the prison, where our desks are built by prisoners. We than distribute the desks over the countryside. We accomplish a double purpose with our monies. We are presently also building ovens for women and train them to bake and sell bread. Most of our participants are from the remote villages and from the streets in the city. All funds are handled for the sole purpose of acquiring these goals. Thanks and please help if you can!

Our main goal is to help the small remote villages to provide a basic education to their children. We have a dual project. That is we support with school furniture and supplies. At the same time we support a rehab prison program where the inmates are trained in carpentry. We take your donations and buy the inmates production of school desks for the children in the remote villages. A real dual benefit project, basically in education of both, the inmates and the children.

Honduras United 4 Life
2801 28th Ave W
Seattle, Washington 98199-2703

Rotary's gift allows Raquel her independence

Raquel has adjusted to her prosthesis

Raquel's coffee plants

Raquel now after her prosthesis, Thank you Palm Desert Rotary

Well the time is running out. While we had a very successful year, we can not stand on our laurels. We accomplished a total of 10 schools where we furnished them with school furniture. The miracle of the fishes came through, unbelievable. I should have known better, the good lord would come through. 9 kinders with 17 to 20 desks each, one school for at risk teens, with 50 desks, supported the prison reform program with getting our school furniture made by their rehab program, Unidos por la Vida, with the Auxillary Bishop of San Pedro at the helm.
Organized 3 separate music groups 2 in prison and one in an area know for gangs.
Hope to have a Christmas concert completed.
The school on the profile was something to really be proud of. First we went there to see a shed with 6 posts and a tin roof on a dirt floor. They used borrowed chairs from church. We went and delivered the first sets of desks. We later went and took them school supplies. We convinced a fellow worker that he could do best as a Rotarian. He joined the club in San Pedro. Wow, great things happend. Initiated into Rotary by the new District Governor. The governor challenged him to community work with a district grant. Did we hit a home run for the village of El Porvenir! The club will set up a water project for the 25 family village, solar panelling for the school, (the government has approved a new classroom built in January.) The club will request from the federal government computers for the school. One thing missing, they have no books, wow $200 buys a complete set of books for a child and the books can be used again and again for the next school child for that grade next year. This is our next important project. The foundation offers technical classes for young teenagers out of school, courses in Beauticians, Barbers, Dress makers, Tailors, Bakers, Plumbers, Electricians. The course is a 5 month course, includes a lunch meal. The course cost is $350.00 per person. We hope to find funds and offer scholarships for the youth in the mountain villages. They will come down daily for the course. Hope to get funds for at least three from each village. This will encourage the youth to travel together to the course. Once trained in a trade, there will be no temptation to support the human smugglers that fleece them to take them illegally and dangerously to the USA. We can help a village one youth at a time!

One project in November 2015.