May 2006
Capital Campaign News - We are so very grateful to
report that our project to relocate and expand St. Mary’s Technical Institute
is going along well. We are busy working on the last of our two major buildings
and our boys are now living in their new dormitory and working in the new workshops.
We had set a capital campaign goal of $1.5 million to make this dream possible,
and we have been blessed with generous support that helped us raise $1.3 million
toward that goal! We are humbly grateful to all who have contributed to making
this project come to life. We are now in the last phase of our campaign, and
we welcome support from donors and friends of El Hogar who are moved to help
us reach our final target. Read more about ourCapital Campaign.
May 2006
Read our Spring
2006 newsletter, or look through our newsletter
archives to view past issues.
March 2006
It is with sadness that we report the murder of an El Hogar
graduate from the
Technical Institute. Rev. Kunz recently informed us that Jose Oger Bermudez,
who graduated from the Institute in 1991, was shot and killed on March 1, 2006.
Jose had graduated from the Institute in 1991 and had gone on to become a futbol
star in Guatemala. Jose was 32 years old. He left behind a wife and two children,
and was in the process of adopting a daughter. Although the murder took place
in Guatemala, he was buried in Honduras. Lazaro took a large group of students
to the funeral. Rev. Kunz is asking for
prayers for his family.
February
2006
El
Hogar is honored to be featured in the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
El
Hogar has been selected as a Massachusetts 2005 Catalogue for
Philanthropy
charity. This year’s edition of the Catalogue profiles 72 of Massachusetts'
outstanding environmental, cultural, and human service agencies as "examples
of excellence" in Massachusetts philanthropy. El Hogar Ministries, Inc.
was chosen from a total applicant pool of over 250 organizations.
Read
more about this prestigious honor here.
January 2006
"A Place They Call Home" - El Hogar
Ministries was recently featured in the Winchester Star newspaper. Read
the whole article here.
December 2005
Dr. Barbra McCune, missioner physician in Honduras, and medical care provider
for El Hogar Projects describes going on a home visit. Read
Dr. McCune's description here.
November 2005
Each of our three schools
held their graduation ceremonies in November 2005.
View photos of the celebrations
along with a description by Rev. Kunz.
Read a complete list of 2005
graduates from all three centers.
November 2005
August 2005
The Boston Herald published an
article on El Hogar written by Lilla Cosgrove who traveled to
Honduras as
a member of one of our work teams. Read
her story from the Boston Herald.
April 2005
Rebuilding the wall
around El Hogar, which was seriously damaged by hurricane Adrian - El Hogar is currently rebuilding the back perimeter wall, which was
washed out by hurricane Adrian in spring of 2005. The rain and floods brought
by the hurricane completely washed out a large section of the back wall of
our elementary school grounds, exposing El Hogar to the street and neighborhood
below. This break compromised the safety of the boys and staff and required
an additional guard to be hired to help ensure the safety of the school. A
project to repair the wall began immediately.
This retaining wall stood 20 feet high and was located in an area which is inaccessible
to vehicles and large equipment. Therefore the rebuilding of the wall had to
be completed totally by hand, making this a very labor intensive and expensive
project. A construction crew worked through the summer to reconstruct the wall
while making it stronger than before to prevent similar damage in the future.
The cost to repair the wall is over $25,000. This unexpected and costly project
impacts our operating budget. El Hogar would be grateful for and contributions
to offset this cost.
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