Educate 50 Kids with Disabilities in Honduras

Kendy, a young woman from the Cangrejal Valley of Honduras, is an exemplary mother, wife, and neighbor, and she has found joy in these roles throughout her life. Nevertheless, as a vibrant, imaginative person, she spent a number of years feeling that she had more to offer.

In 2015, then, when she began to serve as a community volunteer for Un Mundo’s Special Education and Health project, she was overjoyed to find new ways to use her talents. She suddenly could help not only her own children but also scores of other children to learn and grow. She could coach the families of children with special needs, guiding them to find resourceful ways of enabling productive lives for their children. She could brainstorm with public school teachers to identify more effective strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners.

“I love being a mother and a housewife,” Kendy says, “but through this project I feel that I am truly being useful to others.” Her aptitude for helping her neighbors is apparent in the way that children in her community of Yaruca flock to her when she’s in their classroom at school, as well as the camaraderie she has with all of the parents and teachers she supports. Kendy seems to continually find ways of being an ever more valuable member of her community, and — with university studies in pedagogy underway — it’s clear that she will find still more ways to contribute in the years ahead.

Kendy is one of eight community volunteers for this project — the others live and work in the communities of El Urraco, Toncontin, El Paraíso, Nueva Suyapa, El Pital, Las Mangas, and El Naranjo. Together, they serve about 50 children with a range of special needs as well as these children’s families and teachers. Without Kendy and her colleagues, who are models of service, kind-heartedness, and tolerance in each of their villages, the Special Education and Health project would be nothing more than a dream.

We are so proud to watch volunteers like Kendy blossom professionally, giving so much to children with special needs and their communities at large. We know that we couldn’t support these amazing people without your help, so we wanted to take a moment to thank you again for enabling the Special Education and Health project to thrive! As always, any donations toward this project will be deeply appreciated by the local folks who strive every day to make their communities more inclusive.