03/05/2026
Dear friends and family members,
All of your previous support of Health, Potential, & Opportunity through Education, (H.O.P.E.) in Honduras, financially and otherwise, pays off every year with our annual visit to the communities in northern Honduras we work with year round. When Alejandro Pineda, our friend and liaison, came to spend time with us last fall, community folks had the opportunity to connect and learn more.
Thank you all! Your previous support and encouragement of our small, but energetic and dedicated, nonprofit community organization service near Santa Barbara, Honduras makes a real difference to daily lives of our friends in an extremely poor, mountainous area in one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. We assist with basic support for daily home life needs such as clean water, nutrition, illness prevention, and hygiene, small comforts.
These communities, descendants of the indigenous Lenca, have been marginalized, as so many indigenous and isolated groups are.
Below is a summary of our most recent trip BUT please don't miss that we have a local Fundraiser March 8th at White Winter Mead and Spirits in Iron River starting at 1:30 pm. Music (Moss Creek), comedy (emcees Mary Mack and Tim Harmston), bucket raffle of Honduran crafts and coffee, free will donations, lunch (our own Morning View Farm beef plus!), photos and mingling.
Learn more about H.O.P.E. from our members.
We returned last week from our latest visit, which was full, busy, fun, and productive.
We visited and assisted the school built by H.O.P.E. in La Libertad over a decade ago (we visit every year) and the one in La Union. The children and mothers there are always excited for our return and we get many, many hugs. Children wherever we go look forward to receiving little toy cars as a small gift - they have no toys. This year our special project was to bring a book (in Spanish) for each child at their reading level to take home. No child has any books. Everyone got one and we left some with the teachers.
We visited with a small community clinic in La Concepcion to provide some needed supplies, traveled to meet with 4 community members from Travesia who are asking for assistance to build latrines (they walked 3 hours to see us), met women from Las Vueltas who have asked to be part of our small group, where we returned to deliver some food and gift bags, traveled to La Union with food and gift bags for the women and the school there.
Included in the gift bags this trip were candles, sheets, and towels and reusable bags.
We focus our efforts on basic nutritional support, chimneys and cooking pans needed for their stick and mud houses, provide some baby chicks to start home flocks for future eggs and meat production to improve diets.
In the past we assisted with buying a communal horse to allow for assistance in traveling to medical care and to help haul heavy items to and from the community. We would like to repeat that with other communities.
Future special projects: each family to receive a bucket with a cover to keep their clean potable water in; machete for each male head of household to continue work for sustenance and means of earning cash with more wealthy landowners and coffee plantations; continue the work of building latrines in all communities (a special endeavor).
And again, none of this would be possible without Alejandro Pineda.
I hope to see many of you locals on March 8th at White Winter Mead and Spirits!
Your participation in financial support is well utilized. As volunteers we pay for all of our own expenses on our trips.
Below is information to send checks and attached are our new Venmo and PayPal options, the poster about the March 8th event and a few of great photos!
In partnership and love to you all,
Gayle
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Project descriptions and examples of where your donations may go
Chimneys and planchas (pans) $25 / family
Clean water bucket with lid $6/ family
Clinics $ to purchase everything we can bring or buy there for medical supplies
Nutrition/supplement food $18 bag including vegetables
Latrines (we are gathering cost estimates now)
Chicks $20 per family to get started
Machetes $13 each
Schools books and supplies donations or $ to purchase
Cloth diapers /pins donations or $ to purchase
Communal horse around $700 (including transport)
Liaison Alejandro Pineda $65 per day time in addition to transport fuel expenses
HOPE in Honduras
14045 Carlson Rd.
Brule, WI 54820
