The staff of El Hogar Projects and the board of El Hogar Ministries are overjoyed to report that wehave begun taking young girls into our ministry in Honduras!

When we tell the story of extreme poverty and need found in the neighborhoods of Honduras, the first and most insistent question is, “What about the girls?” We have always answered this by explaining that boys are turned out to the streets in numbers ten times greater than girls, and we felt the need to start there. In the 28 years of El Hogar’s ministry in Honduras, we have gone into many dire living situations, and whenever possible, we would take a boy and bring him to live at El Hogar. We also saw girls living in those exact same conditions of hunger, poverty, and futures with bleak prospects. It was with both joy and heartbreak that we offered help to the boys in these situations, but had to leave the girls behind, to smile bravely while facing lives of risk, disease, hunger and potentially prostitution.

It is El Hogar’s mission to not only offer food, education and love to the poorest of the poor of Honduras, but to give them the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty into which they were born, by empowering them with the skills and the confidence to get good jobs and to be role models for those around them. We have been doing this with our boys for 28 years, and now God has led the way for us to offer this to girls.

In February 2007 we took in six little girls. They live in a rental house in a safe neighborhood near El Hogar, and go to El Hogar to take classes with our boys. We provide supervision and evening activities for them in their home. Three of the six girls have brothers at El Hogar, and are happy to be reunited with them. We hope to take in five more little girls each year. Our plan is that once our girls reach high school age, they will live with us and go to a nearby private high school. In the evenings, we will offer special skills training in marketable vocations for girls in Honduras, such as computer use, secretarial skills, and sewing. We are teaching them self-esteem, give them love, and show them the generosity of God’s grace.

Our sponsorship program remains the same, except we will have children, rather than just boys, to be sponsored. Sponsorships are $1500 for a full sponsorship, $900 for a housing sponsorship, and $600 for an educational sponsorship. When a new sponsorship begins, we will assign a child – either boy or girl – depending on who most needs a sponsor at that time. When people make special requests, such as for a little boy or a boy at the Farm, or even a specific child, we do our best to honor that, but ultimately we follow the needs our children have for sponsors at the time. The same will be true for girls; it is possible to request a girl to sponsor, but we cannot guarantee that one will be assigned. We hope sponsors will understand and will be happy with the relationship they can establish with their child - boy or girl, elementary age or teenager.

We are happy to 'introduce' to you our six new girls. They are excited and grateful for this opportunity in their lives. Form a work team and come to El Hogar to meet them and get to know them!


Interested in becoming a sponsor for a child at El Hogar?
Click here for our application form.



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