HOPE FOR HONDURAN CHILDREN FOUNDATION
19020 Shaker Boulevard, Shaker Heights, OH 44122 www.hopeforhonduranchildren.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Our mission is to protect, inspire, nurture, educate, train, and challenge disadvantaged vulnerable Honduran children. We mentor and provide opportunities to help them reach their full potential and become self-sufficient, caring, responsible adults. Extreme poverty, lack of opportunity, drugs and gang violence contribute to a catastrophic struggle for human survival in Honduras. Most at risk are rural youth who migrate to the cities in search of opportunity where they are confronted with hunger, unemployment, disease, drug cartels, and brutal gangs specializing in trafficking, killings, kidnappings, rape and extortion. A recent United Nations Global Study advocates strong investment in education and employability for vulnerable children, youth, orphans, and those without access to public services. These are the children the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation works to serve, educate, and provide opportunities.

Our mission is to protect, inspire, nurture, educate, train, and challenge disadvantaged vulnerable Honduran children. We mentor and provide opportunities to help them reach their full potential and become self-sufficient, caring, responsible adults.

EDUCATION AND SPONSORSHIP Casa Noble Home is the foundation's exceptional residence for up to 24 students. The Casa Noble Home is a long-term development project that provides very long-term and far-reaching benefits. Each Casa Noble family member is provided with abundant love, a solid education, safe shelter, food, medical care and clothing. All students are carefully selected based on their character and academic focus. It is a rigorous environment for those entering the family at age 14 but in a very short time they learn the benefits of integrity, self-discipline, and honor. Each member of our family is provided with the emotional, intellectual and material means to transition successfully into a self-sustaining adulthood. In addition to the love, mentorship and academic education, the program also includes technical training, lessons in English, leadership, finance, and micro enterprise development. Those graduating from high school with a solid academic performance are supported through their studies at the university. Currently 15 of the students are studying at nearby Universities. They are studying business administration, accounting, nursing, computer science, hotel management and international trade. The foundation is committed to empowering willing minds, teaching employable skills, and preparing youth for a successful transition into the world of "self-sustainability". We depend on child sponsorship support in order to help fund the Casa Noble program and the fifty academic scholarships provided by the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation. With so many attending the university and the swell of rural children needing educational assistance, our expenses keep escalating at a very fast pace. There is no child or teen in our programs who isn't profoundly grateful for their support.

PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROGRAM - There is no better classroom than the world itself and no more impactful lesson than immersion into the vibrant, loving and impoverished Honduran culture. Immersion trips are an integral part of the foundation's success. Each trip is designed to make a sustainable difference in the lives of the Honduran children, the local communities and the lives of our service volunteers. In addition to working with our youth in the Casa Noble Home, each morning our volunteers visit one of the five rural village schools the foundation helps support through our Feed-A-Village Program. Annually over 1200 children benefit from this program. We visit the schools during each of our multiple service trips and teach classes in math, English, geography, crafts, micro enterprise development, leadership etc. We become the mentors and role models for the rural children. The Foundation assesses the needs of each community and provides school and hygiene supplies, clothing, shoes, and food. This year we delivered over 1000 school uniforms and another 1000 new dresses custom made for each of the young girls. The foundation provides high school scholarships for 30 rural children whose education would otherwise end after 6th grade. Service volunteers also spend an afternoon at the local center for the blind, CAIPAC , where we enjoy songfests and craft workshops.

SPECIAL PROJECTS - are those for which Hope for Honduran Children raises special funding to offset the costs of planning, implementation, and continuation. In 2019 this included our Feed-A-Village program and the Noreen Macbean Sewing Center. Our Feed-A-Village program has dramatically changed life in our five rural villages. Throughout the year every child is provided toothbrushes and toothpaste, vitamins, medical supplies, soap, lotion, shampoo, shoes, and clothing. Each rural school is provided with an abundance of school supplies. Food is delivered to the communities in need. And, our teaching brigades help the children enthusiastically explore new and innovative ideas. We challenge them to strive. Consequently, a whole new world is opened up for the children and their families. Years back it was difficult to convince these children of the value of a high school education but today, they are all asking for scholarships in order to continue their studies after sixth grade. One of these students won the annual Honduran Math Olympics. The program also maintains an emergency medical fund to help with special medical needs in the communities we serve. The Noreen Macbean Sewing Center doubled in size with more space, more students and lots of business. The Center hummed with students and business every single day of 2019. The Director taught our residential students the necessary skills to become excellent tailors and seamstresses. Youth from the Casa Noble Home now make and repair clothing and created a successful micro enterprise selling their beautiful handmade products.

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