YOUR DONATIONS CAN NOW BE TAX DEDUCTIBLE!
Paramedics for Children have taken Project School Supplies on as partners and your donations through them will be designated to us.
Donations can be made on online on their website by clicking HERE.
Please specifically state your donation is for Project School Supplies in the comments box.
Also, it is very important to e-mail Ellen at EllenLFinn@hotmail.com to let her know your donation has been made so it can be tracked and accounted for. This is easy, safe and tax deductible!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP and thanks so much to Paramedics for Children!
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Exciting New Opportunity for Santa Cruz de Virginia School
Ellen recently met with the mayor and the municipality has offered to supply labor, transportation and partial materials to build a new school at Santa Cruz de Virginia.
The existing structure is neither rain, cold nor wind resistant and they badly need a cement block structure that will stand up in the fierce weather.
In order for Project School Supplies to contribute to this joint project we only need to raise $1900. Can you help us transform this school and give children in this rural village a healthy learning environment?
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Emergency Appeal
Recently we had two very short but forceful hurricanes. Many buildings were damaged and two neighboring schools in the rural areas have lost their roofs.
It costs about $450 to replace a roof. Labor will be provided voluntarily by the dads in each village.
Can you help us? We are beginning the rainier months and need support as soon as possible.
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New Project: Pinalito School
The village of Pinalito is about a 2 hour four wheel drive from Copan, literally at the top of a mountain, where there are unbelievable panoramic views.
The school is desperate for help. It’s made of mud adobe and they have severe problems with life threatening bugs that are infested in the walls. They have 11 desks for 47 students! They also don’t have any story books, toys… nothing! The teacher walks over an hour and a half up the mountain every day, from his village, to teach these kids. He doesn’t even own a pen.
The community is several hundred people. They earn an average of about $2 a day mostly picking coffee. They grow their own corn in their spare time. Most kids do not have toothbrushes and are losing their teeth by age 7. While the government buys some lunches for kids in some city schools these kids only get rice and the parents make corn tortillas for them.
We would like to build a second small classroom (there are nearly 50 kids stuffed into a small small space and they don’t have a kindergarden), plaster and paint the walls, replace the mud floor, build a bathroom and sink (currently they have none), and provide about 35 student desks and much-needed supplies for both the children and teacher. As always, parents will provide the labor voluntarily for any construction work.
We have already delivered a few bookshelves and some toys to the school.
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