Access to High School in Honduran Coffee Mountains

Der educate. community and supporters,

The time has come for another update report from our work here in Honduras! What an exciting few months it has been.

In February we hosted our 2023 Scholarship Award ceremony in the Youth Center where we welcomed our new and returning scholars. This year we more than doubled our high school scholarship programme, going from 10 to 22 students! We invited our students’ families to the Youth Center, and started off the year with a series of team building and goal-setting activities. Students were each given a circle of coloured paper and wrote on it their goals for the year, which ranged from “learning to be a more positive person,” to “keep playing football,” “be a good example for my younger siblings,” and “share my knowledge and training with other youth and children.”

Since then, all of our scholars have been attending weekly activities at the Youth Center – a required part of their scholarship as we aim to support students in their holistic development. One of the first programmes have been computer classes in our computer lab, where students have been learning to use Word, PowerPoint and Excel, but also developing typing skills, and learning basic coding. Knowing how to use a computer is an essential skill, and one that many youth in rural areas don’t have the opportunity to develop, making the computer lab at our Youth Center a vital resource to help young people develop skills that will help them gain meaningful employment and develop creative and problem solving skills using technology. These classes are being run by our university Computer Science scholar Javier, who also runs a weekly class for primary school aged children from the community. This week our high school scholar Gerson joined the team as an assistant teacher to learn how to impact these kinds of courses for primary school students so we can continue to grow the impact of the programme!

We’ve also had scholars attend a leadership training by the local Rotary club, participate in a community arts festival, and lead a “Literacy Day” with primary school students at the Youth Center. Watching this progress is nothing short of exhilarating. These 22 young people are all in school thanks to this scholarship programme, and through these weekly activities are growing as young learners and leaders who are already affecting change within their own communities.

Thank you from all of us for your generosity in supporting this work! Feel free to reach out to us if you'd like to find out more about any of our programmes.

With gratitude,

Antonia