Milestones and Achievements in 2023

It’s November which means the 2023 school year is coming to an end in Honduras!

It has been a great year filled with growth, challenges, and success. And for the first time since 2020, the students returned to the classroom for a complete year. With the return to class came the return of our GO Start program. For two and a half years we had to modify our program to prioritize our free lunch program and remote activities. This year we were finally able to run our after-school program as it was designed.

With your support and donations we were able to put together a team of highly skilled instructors and provide:

• 144 Activities

• 3,037 Free lunches

• 870 Gallons of clean water

Making Up for Lost Time

Each week our instructors worked diligently with our students to help them make up for lost time. Having missed almost two years of school, many of the students are struggling to meet grade level benchmarks, especially in reading, writing, and math. Over the year we have focused on these areas by specifically designing lessons that address each student's needs. Thanks to our instructors and the support of their teachers we have seen significant improvement.

Improving Attendance

In rural Honduras, school attendance is a significant barrier to student learning. Students frequently miss school for a number of reasons, and our partner school faces the same challenges. This year we implemented an excellent and perfect month incentive program to encourage students to consistently attend school and our program. Each month students with excellent attendance (1-3 absences) or perfect attendance (0 absences) would receive a diploma and a prize. By the end of the year, 31 of the 42 students in our program had perfect or excellent attendance! As a final reward, those students who had finished the year with three months of perfect attendance were taken on a field trip to the movie theatre, an experience that most of them had never had before!

Thank you!

It has been an amazing year and without your support we would not be able to carry out our mission. Every dollar that is donated has a direct impact, whether providing food, clean water, or critical educational activities. You are making a difference and providing opportunities that these students would not otherwise have.

- Jeff Ball

Executive Director