Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel

by Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc.
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Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel
Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel

Summary

A unique partnership between Shoulder to Shoulder and Honduran public education offers accessible, quality, bilingual education. In addition, we provide computer tablets and servers, with offline materials, to 50 schools -- sparking learners' desire to study. Inadequate resources mean most children only attend school through the sixth grade and still leave illiterate, sustaining endemic poverty and dependency. This project is the empowerment of the greatest resource: the human mind and heart.

$68,234
total raised
159
donors
0
monthly donors
7
years

Challenge

In Honduras, public school buildings are collapsing, books and materials are non-existent, there are too few teachers, and those few are ill-prepared. In poverty-stricken, rural areas like ours, the situation is worse. Children leave school early. Without skills and uneducated, they attempt to find work, but fail. Many young persons, in frustration, illegally migrate to the US. Private schools are accessible to a very tiny minority. The system sustains widespread poverty.

Solution

Shoulder to Shoulder partners with public education to provide accessible, quality curriculum and resources. While assisting all schools, the Good Shepherd Bilingual School in Camasca is the model for a primary education of excellence. We provide proven pedagogical resources, computer-based technology, and English-speaking volunteers to assist Honduran teachers. We partner with 50 other public Honduran schools to provide them with educational technology. Our students are engaged and inspired.

Long-Term Impact

Taking what we learned about computer-assisted learning, we have expanded into 12 High Schools and 35 middle schools. Working with the Honduran Ministry of Education, we have loaded the Honduran curriculum onto servers, so that teachers without textbooks can still teach what the children need. In our Partnership Model, the Parents Associations purchase large screen TVs, and StS provides the server, router, and computer tablets. Education will provide the standard for hope and inspiration.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).

Resources

Organization Information

Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc.

Location: Miamisburg, OH - USA
Website:
Facebook: Facebook Page
Twitter: @StoSHonduras
Project Leader:
Laura Manship
General Director
Miamisburg , OH United States

Funded Project!

Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
   

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