If you had visited the orphanage where Issac has lived for these past five years, it would not have taken long for you to hear his story.  You would have heard that he was abandoned, left in a ditch on the side of the road of a small town, as a newborn.

Carlos grew up with his grandma and grandpa in their small mountain town, surrounded by a close-knit family of loving aunts, uncles, and cousins. He went to school, played with his cousins and neighbors, and helped…

You’ve probably heard the famous phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child.” If you're a parent, chances are you've felt how raising kids can be simultaneously beautiful and challenging.

If you are a parent, you can probably picture the people in your "village" as your kids grew up. They could have been parents, in-laws, siblings, friends, neighbors, or once strangers who turned into family because of the way they showed up in your story.

On this week, three years ago, we drove to the Honduran child protective services office in San Pedro Sula to put into practice something we had dozens of meetings discussing and designing.

Three years ago, Antonia's community was completely flooded when two hurricanes hit. Their family had to quickly abandon their home and take shelter in a nearby town as the water rose to the rooftop of their home. She lost everything she had spent years working for as a single mom. Their family had to quickly abandon their home and take shelter in a nearby town as the water rose to the rooftop of their home. She lost everything she had spent years working for as a single mom.

At a young age, Patti lost both of her parents and spent her entire childhood living in an orphanage…

Evelyn, a young mom to two boys, found herself in an impossible situation when her youngest son was sick. They didn’t have any money to take him to a hospital after the financial impact that the pandemic had on her family.

A few weeks ago, we were giving fifteen-year-old Rosalie a ride back to the orphanage where she was living after a supervised visit with her grandma at the child welfare office. During this short car ride, Rosalie said to the child welfare psychologist, “Me and the other girls at the orphanage talk about how much we want to go home to our families, and how lucky I am that I’ll hopefully get to leave soon to be with my grandma.”

Sometimes, there are situations where kids shouldn’t and can't live with their parents. As sad as these situations are, it’s inspiring when other family members step up and provide a loving home. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even older siblings have the power to change these kid’s lives forever by giving them a safe and secure environment to grow up in.

Nine years ago, while Blanca was at work, a neighbor babysat them, and someone reported that the kids weren’t being well taken care of. The authorities showed up, took the kids from the neighbor, and took them to an orphanage. But at a recent visit to see her kids, everything changed.

One of the biggest obstacles that has prevented kids from being reunited with their families has been a severe lack of staff in the child welfare offices…

In Honduras, orphanages almost always offer private education to the kids living there (often, the school is on the orphanage's wall-enclosed property). That means that in most cases, kids in orphanages can get a bilingual education, learning English and Spanish in their private school.

See what exactly your support of Denia and her family has meant for her three kids.

Lorenzo and Victoria have always worked to care for their six kids, but a few years ago, it became hard for Lorenzo to find another stable job after he lost his job at a factory because of an injury. Rather than letting their family go hungry, he used the resources he had to find a way to provide for his family, even if that meant going to trash dump sites to collect recyclables to sell for cash.

At the end of January, we introduced you to Xiomara, a grandma who took in her three young grandkids after her daughter suddenly passed away…

TW: Sensitive Content: One of the ways that a lot of kids end up in orphanages rather than living with their families is because staff of orphanages will sometimes go to a struggling single parent or family and offer them an opportunity for their kid to be taken care of, where they can get an education, and never doubt if they will eat three times a day, telling them that they can provide a better life than the family can give them.

We are celebrating today because Gloria and Junior’s Home is finished!

Thanks to your financial gifts, we were able to support them with the construction of a permanent home so that Gloria’s 3-year-old daughter can return to be with her family from the orphanage that she has been in her whole life.

Join in with Victoria, Lorenzo, and our whole team, celebrating that their SIX kids are HOME AGAIN!