El Hogar has been fortunate to have a strong connection to Canada for many years with the help of some generous and dedicated people:

Margo Mingay and her husband, Rev. Dr. David Winsor, both from Toronto, served as the Co-Executive Directors of El Hogar Projects from 1998-2000. They are each still involved in supporting El Hogar. Margo Mingay is the Canadian Advisor to El Hogar Ministries, and also serves as the Sponsor Assignment Coordinator for the US and Canada. Rev. Dr. David Winsor spreads the word of El Hogar through speaking engagements at churches and organizations throughout the US and Canada. If you are interested in contacting Rev. Winsor to schedule a speaking event, please contact him directly, at minwin@sympatico.ca .

Two hugely successful golf tournaments have been hosted by West Vancouver resident and El Hogar supporter, Kent Bubbs. His Universal Outreach Foundation is a Canadian charity that raises funds for El Hogar’s new Technical Institute, which is undergoing a large expansion project. Read details on the Fall 2006 Fore the Boys Golf Tournament.

In the Vancouver area, there is strong support for El Hogar among the Rotary Clubs, spearheaded by Ian Rose, a former Rotary President. The Rotary Club of West Vancouver Sunrise recently filled a container of appliances, clothing and other goods and shipped it to Tegucigalpa for use at El Hogar.

El Hogar Projects' former Executive Directors, Rev. Barry and Kay Wyckham, are from the Vancouver area. Barry and Kay served as Executive Directors from 2000-2003. They currently reside in Sidney, British Columbia, where Barry serves as a parish priest.

In December of 2006, The Bake House, a popular small cafe in West Vancouver, Canada, with the assistance of Grade 6 and 7 students from Chartwell Elementary School, hosted a Christmas fund-raiser for El Hogar that was very successful. Read more about this event here.


There are many ways you can support El Hogar. Below are some suggestions for how you can become involved. For more information, please contact our Canadian Advisor, Margo Mingay, at minwin@sympatico.ca

Our sponsorship program offers a relationship with a specific child. Your child will write to you a few times throughout the year and, if you would like, you are encouraged to write to them. Our children are very moved by the interest, love and caring they feel through this sponsorship program; they know someone far away cares enough about them to help support them at El Hogar

There are three kinds of sponsorship:
(amounts below are given in US dollars)

Educational - $600 a year or $50/month
Housing - $900 a year or $75/month
Full - $1500 a year or $125/month

If you live in Canada and wish to begin a sponsorship, please write a letter saying what kind of sponsorship you would like and enclose a cheque (tax-deductible) made out to Leaside United Church – Honduran Fund, and mail to:

Margo Mingay
454 Heath Street East
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4G 1B7

If you have additional questions about sponsorships, they may be answered on our Sponsorship FAQs page.

There are many needs at El Hogar. An unrestricted gift of $60 feeds 80 little children for one day. $500 pays a teacher’s salary for one month. $100 buys drinking water at the Farm for one year. $1000 feeds all 200 boys for one week.*

Please make cheques out to Leaside United Church – Honduran Fund
and mail to:

Margo Mingay
454 Heath Street East
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4G 1B7

*amounts given in US dollars
 all monetary donations will receive a tax deductible receipt

Mission teams travel to El Hogar for a week and spend time doing a project for the school, and becoming acquainted with our boys. Teams learn to be servants to others and see the transformation of the lives of these children. Read more about how you can join an El Hogar work team.

There are several larger items that El Hogar needs. These change over time, but current examples include: a van, appliances such as laundry machines, mattresses, printer cartridges, etc. Rotary Clubs and churches that prefer to organize drives for more substantial specific items may be interested in these needs. Please contact Margo Mingay, at minwin@sympatico.ca to find out more about how you can make a larger contribution.

El Hogar’s long-term volunteer program has hosted qualified individuals and couples to volunteer for two to twelve months at El Hogar. Volunteers live in community with our boys and staff and provide a wide variety of services, including supervision of the boys, teaching, supporting the staff, and helping work teams when they come.

As of January 2006, our long-term volunteer program is temporarily on hold as we turn our attention to making revisions and improvements to the program. Please check in with this site over time, and watch for information in our newsletter, to see when the new program will become effective.

For more information on our Canadian Donation and Sponsorship Program, please contact our Canadian Advisor, Margo Mingay, at minwin@sympatico.ca

We extend our deepest appreciation for your interest in helping the poorest of the poor in Honduras to receive the opportunity for a better life.


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