There are many ways you can help the children
of El Hogar. Read below for ideas.
For more information on how you can help support El Hogar,
please contact Liz Kinchen by email at
elhogar@3crowns.org or
call 781-729-7600.
For information
on our Canadian Donation and Sponsorship Program, please
contact our Canadian Advisor, Margo Mingay, at
minwin@sympatico.ca
Our sponsorship program offers a relationship with a specific child.
They 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:
Educational - $600 a year or $50/month
Housing -
$900 a year or $75/month
Full -
$1500 a year or $125/month
To begin a sponsorship, please fill out our application
form indicating what type of sponsorship you
would like to begin. Write out a check
(tax-deductible)
made out to El Hogar Ministries and mail to:
El Hogar Ministries
70 Church Street
Winchester, MA 01890
Click
here to learn more about our Sponsorship Program.
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 children for one week. Please
make checks out to El Hogar Ministries.
Our Emergency Medical Fund provides money
to be used for an unexpected medical expense for any of our
children. This fund has
provided heart surgery, ear surgery and head injury medical
help over the past 3 years. Read Rev. Kunz's observations about
healthcare conditions in Honduras here.
Our Children’s Activities Fund allows
us to take the children on special outings, such as trips to
museums, parks and,
movies. These activitivies are not covered as a part of our
operating budget.
The Christmas Clothing Fund is a way sponsors can
give a gift to their child at Christmas time that does not
involve sending
a package. It is difficult with our shipping program to get
Christmas presents to El Hogar in time for the holidays. We
have set up the Christmas Clothing fund as a way for our staff
to provide some new clothing for each child to celebrate the
holidays. This fund allows each child to be treated equally
and to celebrate the holidays in a Honduran manner, which does
not emphasize gift giving as much as showing Christmas joy
with a new article of clothing.
Our Pension Fund provides for the case of unanticipated
staff turnover. In Honduras when a teacher leaves employment,
the school must pay their entire pension at once. Our turnover
is small, but unexpected changes in staff plans can set back
our budget without warning.
Checks for any of these funds can be sent to our Massachusetts
office at:
El Hogar Ministries, Inc.
70 Church Street
Winchester, MA 01890
Mission teams travel to El Hogar for a week and spend time
doing a project for the school, and becoming acquainted with
our children. Teams learn to be servants to others and see
the transformation of the lives
of
these boys. Read more about how you can join an El Hogar
work team.
For many, many years thoughtful donors and friends of El Hogar
have been sending goods and supplies to El Hogar. It is through
this kindness that we have clothing, medicine and school supplies
for our boys. This is has been a tremendous help to our program
and has saved us precious money. Recently we have felt the
need to reevaluate our shipping program to best serve our
program.
Please click here to learn more about
our new shipping policy.
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.
For more information on all of these ways to help support
El Hogar, please contact Liz Kinchen by email at elhogar@3crowns.org or
call 781-729-7600.
For
information on our Canadain 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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