NGO Status:
Pending
Primary Office:
San Pedro Sula
In 2006, the Honduras government invited Buckner by special invitation of the First Lady, to visit the orphanages and needs of the children in Honduras. Additionally, Buckner crossed the borders of Honduras for the first time on an exploratory trip to visit orphanages in the city of San Pedro Sula Buckner hopes to have three additional mission trips in the year 2008 including a Shoes for Orphan Souls Trip in December.
Three government officials which included the sister of the First Lady, Director of IHNFA, Children’s Social Services for Honduras, and coordinator for humanitarian aid for the First Lady came to Dallas in April 2007 to visit Buckner and share the needs of the children in Honduras.
Buckner services and country support include:
Humanitarian Aid: Buckner sent down mattresses for the adolescent girls’ home as well as donations to cover gifts for the children on the “Day of the Child. In 2007. Buckner sent 5,000 pairs of shoes for the children in Honduras in 2008.
Mission Trips: Three mission trips are scheduled to Honduras in 2008
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Country Information
• Population: 7, 369, 327
• Capital: Tegucigalpa
• Location: Central America between Guatemala and Nicaragua, and bordering the gulf of Fonseca between El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Also 1,000 miles from the southwest of Miami.
• Official Language: Spanish and Amerindian languages
• Sixty-eight per cent of Honduran families are poor, mainly in rural and periurban areas.
• A total of 384,832 children and adolescents aged between five and 18 years work.
• There are 50 government orphanages in Honduras
Contact Information
Buckner International
Global Initiatives
Leslie Chace
Director of Ministry Development —
Central & South America
lchace@buckner.org
214-321-4589
Links
Global Initiatives
Buckner.org/Change
Mission Trips
ItsYourMission.com
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Buckner in Honduras
