One of the biggest obstacles that has prevented kids from being reunited with their families has been a severe lack of staff in the child welfare offices…

In Honduras, orphanages almost always offer private education to the kids living there (often, the school is on the orphanage's wall-enclosed property). That means that in most cases, kids in orphanages can get a bilingual education, learning English and Spanish in their private school.

See what exactly your support of Denia and her family has meant for her three kids.

Lorenzo and Victoria have always worked to care for their six kids, but a few years ago, it became hard for Lorenzo to find another stable job after he lost his job at a factory because of an injury. Rather than letting their family go hungry, he used the resources he had to find a way to provide for his family, even if that meant going to trash dump sites to collect recyclables to sell for cash.

At the end of January, we introduced you to Xiomara, a grandma who took in her three young grandkids after her daughter suddenly passed away…

TW: Sensitive Content: One of the ways that a lot of kids end up in orphanages rather than living with their families is because staff of orphanages will sometimes go to a struggling single parent or family and offer them an opportunity for their kid to be taken care of, where they can get an education, and never doubt if they will eat three times a day, telling them that they can provide a better life than the family can give them.

We are celebrating today because Gloria and Junior’s Home is finished!

Thanks to your financial gifts, we were able to support them with the construction of a permanent home so that Gloria’s 3-year-old daughter can return to be with her family from the orphanage that she has been in her whole life.

Join in with Victoria, Lorenzo, and our whole team, celebrating that their SIX kids are HOME AGAIN!

We are so happy to share that Maria's three kids have been reunited with her and are finally HOME! 

In 2020, during the pandemic, Xiomara's (Zee-oh-mar-ah) family lost their home to two back-to-back hurricanes. The roof and walls that once provided them shelter were washed away, except for two walls. Over time, they have worked to get pieces of metal to enclose their home into a one-room house.

When Gloria was a teenager, she got pregnant and needed support to keep her baby. A family that she had met before told her that she could stay with them and that they would support her and her daughter. But after she gave birth to her daughter…

We are so excited to share that Cinthia’s oldest daughter is finally back home after being placed in an orphanage five years ago!

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A few months ago, we introduced you to Karla. She is a GREAT mom to four kids! Several years ago, her oldest son was taken to live in an orphanage because Karla’s sister had been watching him for the day while she worked and decided to take him and her children to beg for money at a traffic light.

“We are all deserving of a second chance” is what Victoria and Lorenzo’s neighbor said to us the day we met them and heard their story about how, ultimately, living in extreme poverty led to their six kids being taken to an orphanage.

Imagine four years after a complicated childbirth where you were told that your newborn had passed away and that you were contacted by a social worker telling you that your child was alive…

On Monday morning, Lesbi, our Director of Operations, and I (Erica) drove with the social worker from the local child welfare office to an orphanage in San Pedro Sula…

When a kid can’t be reunited with their parents because their ongoing protection can’t be guaranteed, the best thing is to look for an extended family member instead of spending the rest of their childhood in an orphanage.

When Nicoll was a teenager, she got pregnant, and growing up without parents herself, she didn’t have a strong support system to help her when her baby daughter was born.

Victoria and Lorenzo love their six children. They just haven't had the best opportunities and have lived in extreme poverty their whole lives.

Because they live in extreme poverty, an extended relative reported Victoria's six kids as not being well taken care of…