Energy Efficiency in Honduras
Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) and Orphanage Emmanuel were spending a large amount of their budget on electricity, much of it used to pump the many…
Boys’ Home Repairs
When the Honduran government shut down their childcare services division due to ineffectiveness, all government run children’s homes were closed as well. As a result…
Building a Dam in Honduras
We had been working with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos in Honduras, home to 700 children, for months to reduce their water and power consumption, but it…
Rebuilding a Kitchen to Prevent Shutdown
Angeles Custudios is an orphanage caring for 80 children that’s run by the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart near Medellín, Columbia. Government authorities were…
Youth for Honduras Transition Program
After working with children’s homes for a several years, we were dismayed by the lack of guidance and life skills provided to teens to prepare…
A.O. SMITH
Some of you know about our efforts at the World Orphan Fund to reduce electric costs for the two largest orphanages in Honduras. Our plan will…
Vocational Teachers at Casa Bernabe
Preparing older orphans to be successful in the outside world is critical because the outcomes can be grim when they reach adulthood. Studies show that…
Physical Therapist For Disabled Children
Casa Hogar Bencaleth in Tegucigalpa, Honduras provides a loving home for 25 profoundly disabled children. They were in desperate need of a physical therapist for…
Construction of Three Children’s Homes
After the World Orphan Fund provided emergency funding to Casita Copan in Copan Ruinas, Honduras to rescue 13 children who had been living in a rat-infested home…
Industrial Washing Machines & a New Truck
At Angeles Custodios in La Ceja, Colombia, their clothes washers were broken again. They weren’t designed for heavy use, and they were paying two employees…