Students Building 1,000 Schools in Honduras by 2020
Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:00
Our goal is to build schools and provide resources for 1,000 remote villages across Honduras by the year 2020.
Students Helping Honduras
In 2010, Students Helping Honduras began building relationships with community leaders from four schools in northern Honduras. These schools lacked the necessary facilities to teach their children. We also began planning with local officials to build a shelter for the orphaned and abandoned children of the area. During the winter of 2011, volunteers from all over the world flew down to Honduras to meet the kids, parents, and teachers in these communities, and for one week began constructing the projects for which they would work to raise funds over the next five months. Back at home, they started to mobilize a massive fundraising effort.
I don't think Towson University has ever seen a group of students work so relentlessly for a cause. We were raising thousands of dollars a week by constantly holding dozens of fundraisers all semester long. We threw a benefit concern in April that raised over US$5,500 in one night. By June, we had raised over US$41,000 for the children's home
After countless bake sales, benefit dinners, and phone calls, Students Helping Honduras raised more than US$120,000 to purchase the construction supplies for our partnering villages. In exchange, the community leaders mobilized the parents to provide all of the manual labor for the projects.
Our goal is to build schools and provide resources for 1,000 remote villages across Honduras by the year 2020. Each school brings these children one step closer to overcoming the challenges they face every day. (1/28/12)
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