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Facts:
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68% of Honduras families are poor, in
population of about 7 million. Rural poverty means less than $1 per day of income.
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About 400,000 children and adolescents aged 5 to 8 work for a living.
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Adult literacy is reported at low as
80%; with the lowest levels in rural areas.
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Only 43% of children enrolled in public schools complete primary school and only 30% of those continue in Secondary School.
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The problem of HIV/AIDS is growing. While Honduras presents the highest prevalence of HIV in Central America, it also has the poorest health services to deal with the existing problem or to manage prevention programs.
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Honduras, according to the United Nations, is the second poorest country
in the Western Hemisphere, after Haiti.
Program Description
Hope for the Children program will operate in collaboration with
local partners and government counterparts to provide children
from 0-6 with an integrated program that focuses on their growth
and holistic development in personal, physical, cognitive,
socio-emotional, psychomotor and language skills while
encouraging the participation of parents and the community.
The program in its initial phase will
concentrate on providing resources for primary education
therefore giving children access to primary school.
This program aims to:
• Provide basic education
efficiency
• Improve quality and efficiency
of the teaching profession with
concentrate on teacher
qualification and performance
• Strengthen pre-basic education
- universal provision of preschool
service for boys and girls under
the age of 6
• Improve equity and access to
intercultural bilingual basic education
• Improve rural education
networks
Beneficiaries
• Direct Beneficiaries – 1270 boys and girls between 0-6 years of age
• Indirect Beneficiaries – 1357 families
Impact
• Strengthened local capacity, abilities and knowledge for the
continued
auto-implementation and transfer of this model throughout the community
• Greater availability of resources dedicated to children between the ages of 0-6,
with ensured success in transition to primary school and reduction
of drop-out
rates
at
the primary level
• Improved parental capacity ad role i the stimulation, education
and upbringing of
healthy children
Critical Needs
With an estimated population of 5.5 million, 68% of Honduran families are poor, mainly in rural and periurban areas. There are significantly more poor families in rural areas (75%) than in urban areas (57%). The Gross Domestic Product has been consistently falling annually and the external debt accounts for 82 % of the GDP and 72 % of imports. Unemployment accounts for over 16 % of the economically active population, fueling the informal economy. More than 385,000 children and adolescents aged between five and 18 years work! Literacy reportedly is about 56% but varies widely regionally. Support for the education system is drastically needed as it is estimated that only 9% of Hondurans have completed primary schooling. With respect to health and welfare, there is a high degree of malnutrition; high infant and child mortality rates due to major diseases such as malaria, enteric diseases, typhoid, influenza, tuberculosis and pneumonia which are on the rise. Good medical care is minimal for most of the population. The problem of HIV/AIDS is only growing and while Honduras presents the highest prevalence of HIV in Central America, it also has the poorest health services to deal with the existing problem or to develop and manage prevention programs. According to CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), the human capital development of Honduras must be fostered through the improvement of basic education and health services in order to sustain economic growth strategies. Pueblito’s expertise in ECD (Early Childhood Development) work as well as our emphasis on capacity building within the countries in which we manage programs, makes us the natural and logical choice to assist local partners to reduce the social vulnerability of Hondurans through the following objectives:
• Doubling the net pre-school
education coverage for 5 year-old children
• Reducing infant and child
mortality rates by half
• Decreasing malnutrition in
children under 5 to 20 %
You can make a donation
to help Pueblito launch in Honduras in the following ways:
• Make an On Line Donation -
please go to "Make a donation" on
Pueblito's web site.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT !!!
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