NAME OF THE PROJECT |
Casa Alianza Tegucigalpa |
AIMS OF THE PROJECT |
Halt the deteriorating state in
which the street children find themselves, with the help of generous
people, giving them hope, before is too late. |
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• It has an Open-Entry; any child coming for
the first time has a clean and safe place to sleep and the opportunity
to leave the street. • It provides the basic needs of youths and children in the street, trying to take them to their refuge to reintegrate them to society. • It tries to protect them from the dangers of living in the street and help them overcome negative stereotypes. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest in working with children and juveniles
(12-18 years old) • Responsible and to be prepared for hard work • Take initiative • Minimum age required 21 years old. |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Street Educator: talking with the street
children trying to convince them to get out of the street and come
to enjoy the project’s refuge • Refuge Educator: sharing, playing and helping the children in their needs, to make them feel good; staying in Casa Alianza, in order to prevent those children will not go back to the street (sports, arts, informal education …) • Family reintegration: meeting the street children’s family and knowing their background, in order for them to take care of their child afterwards |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 3 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchangee may live with a Host Family or at the project, depends of the project needs. |
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Comunidad El Arca Tegucigalpa |
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• Help mentally disable
people to feel useful and adapted to the society. • To reveal the natural talents of mentally disabled people. . |
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• Homes: Giving the mentally disabled people
the chance to form a true family with a simple life • Workshops: discovering their dignity, feeling useful and fulfill a job adaptability to their capacities. • School: offering a special education program, which permits them enjoy and learn to relate to the others |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Mature Person: capable to handle the environment
on the project • Give and receive affection • Be communicative • Be patient |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Attending work in Workshops, preparing Workshops
or clubs • Helping in evaluation and occupational therapy of each individual. • Sharing and living with everyone in the project and participate in everyday life of these people. • Living in one of the homes demands the exchange to take care of the disabled during the mornings and evenings, participating preparing their meals and house duties as well as sharing other things like free time in a family. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchangee could be living with a host family or in the project. |
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(S.O.S. Kinderdorf) Tegucigalpa, Valle de Angeles, Choluteca and Tela |
AIMS OF THE PROJECT |
Give to the homeless children
of any race, nationality or religion a family and home, preparing
them to have an autonomous life in the future. |
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It counts with a number of annex
institutions, where its children and youths are prepared for independent
life. At the same time it contributes to their integration to the
neighborhood, opening doors to other children and youths around
them. These institutions are: • Youth Institutions • Infant’s Kindergartens • Schools • Formation and Production Centers • Social Centers • Medical Centers • Emergency Help Programs |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Mature Person • Responsible • Flexible • A lot of initiative • Minimum age required 23 years old. |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Giving support to the educators in house
duties. • Teaching subjects like English, art, sports … • Accompanying the children to walks and visits |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 2 |
| HOST SITUATION | Most of the volunteers live on the project. |
NAME OF THE PROJECT |
Compartir Tegucigalpa |
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• Contribute improving the
life quality of many children in special hard circumstances • Foment Community participation and integration, making activities in poor neighborhoods |
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• Education: Pre-scholar,
for children under 7 years old, No formal education, for people
with different ages, short term. It helps children get new uniforms
for school, scholar material … • Integral Health: Health Education and Promotion, Community Projects of improvement of integral health, Medical attention. • Promotion for Production: Financial Technical Support for Production (Communal Banks, Micro – business, Technical training, etc.) • Reintegration: Attention pro children’s returns to the family, school and Community. (Contacting, Accompanying, attending their transition, follow up in children integration process) • Familiar Attention: Promotion, remission and follow up of their families; Establishment of children to children relation, to promote communal leaders and teams. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest in working with children • Responsible and to be prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach the children. |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Sport Educator: organizing training and
competition with another educator • Educator at day care center: working in the libraries, teaching English, teaching craft … |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 3 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchangee will be living with a host family. |
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Horizontes al Futuro Comayagua |
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• Encouraging individual
and collective initiative of the Community fomenting the solidarity
and help in order to solve the street children’s situation.
• Creating Pedagogic Programs needed in children adaptability • Implementing prevention measures to avoid the increment of street children and the youthful delinquency. |
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• Street: in this stage
the street educator gets in contact with the children, becomes their
friend, gets to know better, and afterwards forms a profile of their
situation • Casa de la Liberated: this is the second stage, where the children have a place to eat, have fun in their spare time, get medical and psychological attention and prepare them for the next stage • Centro Monsignor Falls: this is the third stage where children has place to live and eat, also in this stage the children get clothes, formal education in schools of the Community, occupational therapy in the carpentry and soldering workshops |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Over 21 years old (Man if possible) • Flexibility • Lots of Interest and patience to work with children • To be prepared for hard work |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | The exchange working with this project will be in the third stage “Centro Monsignor Falls”. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchange will be living on the project “Centro Monsignor Falls” sharing the whole day with the children. Every two weekends the volunteer gets 3 or 4 |
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Alternativas y Oportunidades Tegucigalpa |
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Help children and families who
work at the market places, increasing their opportunities to improve
their environment |
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• Studies: help the children
in their school homework • Health: organize activities and talks about health (AIDS, sexuality, cleanliness …) • Cultural Activities: different activities with the children, like theatre pieces, painting, dancing, etc. • Workshops with their mothers: to teach them how to do handicrafts which can be an extra income for the family and it’s also an opportunity to have a talk with their mothers about their family situation |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children • Responsible and to be prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach to the children. • Initiative and creativeness. |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | Every area is open to receive a volunteer, or the volunteer can also work in different areas depending on their interests and skills. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The volunteer will live with a host family. |
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Comité Sampedrano del Niño San Pedro Sula |
AIMS OF THE PROJECT |
Start changes in the Street Children’s
life, through continues attention to their needs |
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• Street: bring attention
to the children on the street through their educators, to rescue
the children giving them friendship, health attention and inviting
them to participate in their activities • Shelter: work full time giving the children food, education, and a place to rest • Social Reintegration: Most of the children on the street have families, the project tries to integrate them to their families • Scholarship Program: Most of the children don’t study because their families can’t give them economical support, the project gives them the opportunity to attend school • Learning and Production Workshops: This is a Vocational Training that gives older children the opportunity to get a work and live by them selves. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children • Responsible and prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach the children • Take initiative |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Sharing, playing and helping the children
and youth (12-18 years old) in their needs • Organizing extra activities such as sports, arts, education informal… • Play the educators role |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 2 |
| HOST SITUATION | The Volunteer will live with a host family. |
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Teleton Tegucigalpa |
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Provide rehabilitation programs
for children and adults whom are suffering mental and physical disabilities Work toward a rapid and dignifying reintegration of the disable to schools, labor and Community, granting them the same opportunities that any citizen deserves. |
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New Programs • Early detection and follow-up of children born with high neurological risks • Integration of special children to ordinary schools • Community based rehabilitation • Prosthesis plus • Specialized attention according to the disability • Training of new physical therapist Disabilities treated |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Mature Person: capable to handle the environment
on the project, give and receive affection • Be communicative • Be patient |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | The exchange may be involved in any program of Telethon, according to his/her skills and attitudes (example : helping in evaluation and occupational therapy of each individual) |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchange will be living with a host family |
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Ludoteca Charlitos O Tegucigalpa |
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Headquarters: ICYE Honduras A Ludotecas is like a library but with games for children The goal is to make the children have some activities after school in order to keep them away from the street and organize educative activities with them |
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• Modify the perception
that Honduran children have about books, reading and learning in
general • Organize different activities with the children (arts, sports, informal education, homework school…) • Increase our culture through service in the local community |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Take a lot of initiative • Creativeness • Interest and lots of patience in working with children • Responsible prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach the children |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | The exchange may be involved in any program of Telethon, according to his/her skills and attitudes (example : helping in evaluation and occupational therapy of each individual) |
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| HOST SITUATION | Host family provided by ICYE Honduras |
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Casa Hogar Bencaleth Tegucigalpa |
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Provide individual attention to
physically disable children. Most of the kids presents advance cases
of muscular atrophy. Almost thirty children are living from different ages where they get all the medical attention |
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• Physical therapy • Social Work • Psychology |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Mature Person: capable to handle the environment
on the project, give and receive affection • Creativeness • Take initiative • Be communicative • Be patient |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Assist the teacher during school • Assist the physical therapist • Organize activities during the afternoon (arts, manual activities, game …) • The volunteer most be prepared and willing to help the children living in the center. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | Host family provided by ICYE Honduras |
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Olimpiadas Especiales Tegucigalpa |
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Make all mental retarded people
have the opportunity to integrate into society developing their
physical aptitude |
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• Provide sport training
(tennis, swimming pool, bowling, football …) • Provide athletic competition |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Practice any sport • Dynamic and enthusiastic • Responsible |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | Assistant to the sport educator. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The exchange will live with a host family |
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Casa Asti Tegucigalpa |
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Offers the Street Children a better
life, through continue attention to their needs |
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Street: bring attention to the
children on the street, rescue the children giving them friendship,
health attention and inviting them to participate in their activities Informal school Other activities : arts, sports, game, manual activities … The center offers them a place to live : food, education, shower, health .. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children • Responsible and to be prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach to the children • Take initiative • Creativity |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • Share, play and help the children in their
needs • Arts Educator: Organize activities • Street Educator: Talk with the street children trying to make them know the other alternative they have to live better |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 2 |
| HOST SITUATION | The Volunteer will live with a host family. |
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Fundación Amor y Vida Tegucigalpa |
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Give love and a good life to children
with AIDS like in a family Children are living in the centre |
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School School Support Singing class Art Class |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children • Responsible and prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach the children • Take initiative • Creativity • Mature |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | The volunteer will be placed in the area where the
project has more needs The volunteer could help in any other activities from the centre like making food etc. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 2 |
| HOST SITUATION | The volunteer will live in the host family |
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MANUELITO |
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To see a Honduras free from children
who have been mistreated and living on the streets. To give children
the opportunity to better themselves and become men and women able
to contribute to the development and production of their country. |
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The project has different stages: • Making contact with the children on the street to make contact with them in order to let them know the opportunity to attend the project. • The second stage is moving into a transitional home. • Moving into a permanent home. • Introducing them into society as responsible citizens. • The volunteer can participate in all the stages. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children • Responsible and prepared for hard work • Skills that you can share and teach the children • Take initiative • Creativity • Maturity |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | The volunteer can participate in all the stages according to their interest and the projects’ needs. |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 2 |
| HOST SITUATION | The volunteer will live in the host family provided by ICYE. |
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FUNDACIÓN PARA EL NIÑO
CON CANCER |
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Helps the children who suffers
Cancer. This foundation is a non profit organization that works only and mainly for the less privileged children that are been treated for cancer in the Hospital of the city Tegucigalpa. |
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• Provides the medical treatment
that the hospital can not provide. • Organize recreational and educational activities for the children. • Supports the relatives of the patients. • Create consciousness on the population about the necessity of obtaining founds addressed to support the children who suffers from Cancer. |
VOLUNTEER’S REQUIREMENTS |
• Interest and lots of patience in working
with children. • Responsible • Skills that you can share and teach to the children • Take initiative • Creativity |
| VOLUNTEER’S ACTIVITIES | • The volunteer will work on the Hospital. • Share, play and help the children in their needs. • Organize activities ( games, Handicrafts, Readings ) |
| NUMBERS OF VOLUNTEERS REQUESTED | 1 |
| HOST SITUATION | The Volunteer will live with a host family. |