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Honduras Projects

Building Project

Volunteers work with rural communities in the region surrounding La Esperanza to build houses, schools, or extensions to existing buildings. In most cases volunteers work directly with the family or community group they are helping, and use traditional methods of building with materials sourced from the region. Tasks on the building project include renovation, labouring, painting, decorating, making adobe bricks, building walls, digging, and building wooden playgrounds. Volunteers will assist with cement mixing, sand sifting, cutting wood, and transporting building materials; there is little equipment and it is mostly manual work.
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Teaching Project

Volunteers can help teach English at one of the eight state schools outside of La Esperanza. This is a rural region with very little resources. Volunteers can make a difference to provide quality education and help reduce poverty for the future generation. Volunteer activities will include assisting the local staff as well as taking on sole responsibility of the classroom. The children are aged from 5 to 12 years old and volunteers may be allocated more than one grade to teach. There is no set curriculum for teaching English in rural areas, and volunteers should expect to come prepared with ideas for classroom activities. The level of English of the students is basic and volunteers will be teaching basic vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
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Medical Project

This project allows volunteers with experience and/or qualifications in medicine to help at an under-funded rural hospital. The Gracias hospital continually struggles to meet demand within its meagre budget and is therefore in constant need of assistance. Volunteers will participate in many of the roles associated with shadowing nurses and doctors, laboratory work, pre-natal, intensive care, physiotherapy and more. The level and scope of your involvement will be determined by your experience and knowledge. Volunteers on this project require at least an intermediate level of Spanish and all applications need to be accompanied with a copy of your CV (résumé).
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Childcare Project

Volunteers will work at a state-run institution which aim is to take care of orphaned, sick, neglected and poor children of Honduras. The specific institute that we are involved with is for children from single parent families that have a net income of around US$100.00 per month. All 30 to 35 children that presently frequent the centre come from extremely impoverished backgrounds, and for the children who go to the centre it is a second home as they spend 6 days a week there. Volunteer activities include feeding, playing, educating and cleaning the children. The children are aged from around 5-15 and are in need of love and attention and volunteers act as older siblings. In addition, we have an on going revitalisation project at the centre. With the continuous help from volunteers we are slowly but surely changing the building by painting and decorating the faciltities which are run down due to lack of funds.
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Conservation - Iguana

Situated off the coast of Honduras on the Caribbean island of Utila, volunteers on this project will work at an Iguana Centre which is dedicated to the protection and breeding of the Utila Iguana. The centre was founded in 1994 and is vital for the on-going protection of the endangered species, which is threatened by unsustainable development of the mangroves and beaches, over-hunting, as well as by increasing pollution. As a result, the work in the iguana sanctuary has become even more important and the contribution by volunteers is vital to the on-going preservation of this species. The centre is located on the he beautiful tropical island of Utila, nestled in the Caribbean Sea 29 km from the Honduras mainland port of La Ceiba.
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