Story

A unique partnership between Shoulder to Shoulder and Honduran public education offers accessible, quality, bilingual education. In addition, we provide computer tablets and server, with offline materials, to 50 schools -sparking learners' desire to study. Inadequate resources mean most children only attend school through the sixth grade and still leave illiterate, sustaining endemic poverty and dependency. This project is the empowerment of the greatest resource: the human mind and heart.

Impact

Taking what we learned about computer-assisted learning, we have expanded into 7 High Schools and 30 middle schools. Working with the Honduran Ministry of Education, we have loaded the Honduran curriculum onto servers, so that teachers without textbooks can still teach what the children need. In our Partnership Model, the Parents Associations purchase large screen TVs, and StS provides the server, router, and computer tablets. Education will provide the standard for hope and inspiration.

Challenge

In Honduras, public school buildings are collapsing, books and materials are non-existent, there are too few teachers, and those few are ill-prepared. In poverty-stricken, rural areas like ours, the situation is worse. Children leave school early. Without skills and uneducated, they attempt to find work, but fail. Many young persons, in frustration, illegally migrate to the US. Private schools are accessible to a very tiny minority. The system sustains widespread poverty.

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