A Future Beyond Poverty & Gangs

In Soyapango, El Salvador, we have 10 boys within the project. Now that we have a little extra funding, we have an English teacher coming in to teach from a structured curriculum. This has been positive.                                                                          Also, as the boys slowly open up about the traumas that they have faced living within gang zones, we have seen some of them beginning to emerge. Three of the boys received academic prizes for coming first, second and third in their respective classes.                                                                                                                                                                                       Our project coordinator - who himself came from a gang family - now has his wife working alongside him. We love this because the boys now have the opportunity to first-hand observe a balanced, mature marital relationship free from violence, threats and cheating. This is something they've not experienced within their own families.

Meanwhile, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, one of our older boys decided to give up on education and find a job. Are we disappointed? Yes. Has he somewhat stymied his future potential? Again, yes. He was doing particularly well at school too. But the other boys are carrying on, and some are approaching their final years of high school.

We have taken on two new boys into the home. One of them has experienced so much grief for one so young, while the other boy had the gang calling on his family and demanding that he join them. Instead, the boy came to us, while his family fled their home to live in a different zone within the city to escape gang retribution.

Please continue to support this work. Our Central American leaders are doing a fantastic job.