Students Helping Honduras is a non-profit organization seeking to end extreme poverty and violence in Honduras through education and youth empowerment. Nearly 100 universities and high schools in the United States have started a chapter of Students Helping Honduras, one of which is at Appalachian State University. Our club fundraises throughout the year. The money raised goes towards helping to build schools in rural communities throughout Honduras. The goal of Students Helping Honduras is to build 1,000 schools throughout the country. In addition to fundraising, those who want to volunteer have the opportunity to go to Honduras for an 8 day trip. During the trip, you help to build a school (lots of assembly lines and buckets go into doing this), meet others from universities across the U.S., and experience the Honduran culture. Thousands of volunteers have traveled to Honduras and collectively raised millions of dollars. Would you like to be one of them? To learn more about the Students Helping Honduras organization, visit: www.ceciskids.org. Feel free to also read my personal story, as well as watch this video about my trip.
Why Honduras? Honduras is more dangeroug today than Iraq was at the height of the insurgency. That gives some perspective into the danger the children in Honduras face every day. Our goal is to empower the youth by keeping them off the streets and away from the gangs, by providing them with schools and an education.
"A school is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside."
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