We’re thrilled to share an important milestone: we have officially signed a new one-year contract to continue having a multidisciplinary team inside the Honduran child protection office. This means that our lawyer, social worker, and psychologist will keep doing the focused, day-to-day work that opens the door for more children to return to their biological families.

The day baby Gabriela was born, her mother left the hospital and didn’t return. With no documents, no name, and a fake name on file for her birth mom, Gabriela was placed in an orphanage while the child protection office tried to understand her situation.

But our team at the Honduran child protection services office was determined to find a solution for her. 

Lorena is a mom to two beautiful daughters. But, several years ago, Lorena’s world was turned upside down when her younger sister, who is a teenager, was watching Lorena’s daughters.

At Embraced, we believe that no one else will walk through all of life with you like family will.

Families, as complex and complicated as they can sometimes be, are each of our lifelong lifelines and support. That’s why investing in safe and loving families, so that their kids can be reunited with them, is the best investment that we can make in a kid’s life.

When Estefany was just a few months old, her mom’s lifestyle placed her in enough danger that the Honduran authorities removed her from her mother’s care. 

Each week, our team travels dozens of hours to visit families, perform evaluations and follow-ups, deliver donations, check on projects that support families, and provide ongoing therapy to reunify families.

For nearly two decades, Dalila lived in a home where she faced ongoing abuse from her ex-husband. One day, after Dalila was getting medical attention after one of her ex-husband’s violent outbursts, she returned home to find that the authorities had acted on the report of her ex-husband’s abuse, and they had arrested him, and that child protective services had taken her kids to be placed in an orphanage.

Cesia’s three-year-old nephew, Carlos, has been living in an orphanage for the last year and a half following the passing of his mother, Cesia’s older sister.

If you had visited the orphanage where Issac has lived for these past five years, it would not have taken long for you to hear his story.  You would have heard that he was abandoned, left in a ditch on the side of the road of a small town, as a newborn.

Carlos grew up with his grandma and grandpa in their small mountain town, surrounded by a close-knit family of loving aunts, uncles, and cousins. He went to school, played with his cousins and neighbors, and helped…

You’ve probably heard the famous phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child.” If you're a parent, chances are you've felt how raising kids can be simultaneously beautiful and challenging.

If you are a parent, you can probably picture the people in your "village" as your kids grew up. They could have been parents, in-laws, siblings, friends, neighbors, or once strangers who turned into family because of the way they showed up in your story.

On this week, three years ago, we drove to the Honduran child protective services office in San Pedro Sula to put into practice something we had dozens of meetings discussing and designing.

Three years ago, Antonia's community was completely flooded when two hurricanes hit. Their family had to quickly abandon their home and take shelter in a nearby town as the water rose to the rooftop of their home. She lost everything she had spent years working for as a single mom. Their family had to quickly abandon their home and take shelter in a nearby town as the water rose to the rooftop of their home. She lost everything she had spent years working for as a single mom.

At a young age, Patti lost both of her parents and spent her entire childhood living in an orphanage…

Evelyn, a young mom to two boys, found herself in an impossible situation when her youngest son was sick. They didn’t have any money to take him to a hospital after the financial impact that the pandemic had on her family.

A few weeks ago, we were giving fifteen-year-old Rosalie a ride back to the orphanage where she was living after a supervised visit with her grandma at the child welfare office. During this short car ride, Rosalie said to the child welfare psychologist, “Me and the other girls at the orphanage talk about how much we want to go home to our families, and how lucky I am that I’ll hopefully get to leave soon to be with my grandma.”

Sometimes, there are situations where kids shouldn’t and can't live with their parents. As sad as these situations are, it’s inspiring when other family members step up and provide a loving home. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even older siblings have the power to change these kid’s lives forever by giving them a safe and secure environment to grow up in.

Nine years ago, while Blanca was at work, a neighbor babysat them, and someone reported that the kids weren’t being well taken care of. The authorities showed up, took the kids from the neighbor, and took them to an orphanage. But at a recent visit to see her kids, everything changed.