Educational Grants

Saul, Gabriela, Carlos and Marlon are some of the young people we have helped with grants for high school.

Although we have always been doing this informally, Project School Supplies has recently expanded our programs to include Educational Grants. These are intended to help kids get into school, or stay in school regardless of lacking funds, parental support or other barriers to learning, such as health problems or commuting issues.

Grants go toward buying school supplies or uniforms for kids whose parents can’t afford them (children aren’t allowed to go to school if they don’t have pencil and a notebook),
paying partial tuition and fees for high school students, counseling and support for kids in high school and providing occasional short term paid work, such as gardening or cleaning.

High school here costs about $300 per year. This is an incredible burden for families who make around $2 a day.

Please click on our DONATE page if you would like to help.

Johny (below) is another one of the young people we have helped. Johny is a beautiful, optimistic, very well mannered 18 year old boy from Carizalito Uno. He lives with his parents and four sisters in a mud home where they struggle to scrape by financially.

Every day he gets up at 5 am and without breakfast walks the 45 minutes to Copan to catch a bus to Santa Rita, where he works in a church.

After work, usually without lunch, he buses back to Copan where he studies with a friend until about midnight. He then walks back up the mountain, has dinner and drops into bed at 1 or 2 am.

On weekends, Jhony goes to high school. He gets up early and walks an hour and a half from his home to Ostuman, where he spends the day in school.