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185:. The collective efforts of these students not only met but exceeded the target, raising $ 110,000 and securing the matching grant. These funds were instrumental in purchasing a land title for the Siete de Abril villagers, ensuring their legal residence, and constructing cinder block houses for each family.
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In the spring of 2006, SHH organized its inaugural walkathon, successfully raising over $ 148,000, a sum bolstered by a matching grant from Doris
Buffett, the founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation. These funds enabled the return to Honduras for the construction of a school in collaboration with the
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Villa
Soleada Children’s Home is a temporary/permanent living arrangement offering childcare, family reunification, and kinship care. The Children's Home consists of multiple homes, each with Honduran houseparents who look after 10-15 children. Many children from the Children's Home attend the Villa
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The students from Villa
Soleada attend the school on a full scholarship, with students from wealthier neighborhoods paying $ 40 a month (in U.S. dollars). The teaching staff is made up of both Honduran and American teachers. The school provides a longer school day than the typical Honduran school,
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The Villa
Soleada comprises forty-four 22' x 28' homes, each with three bedrooms, a central room, a bathroom, and a shower. The village also includes: a community center, land for farming, sustainable businesses, a well, a library, an eco-friendly waste management system, electricity, and a soccer
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Chapters typically host fundraisers on their school’s campus to raise money for the school build projects. SHH also hosts annual Fall
Retreats and Summits in the U.S. for chapter members to come together and learn more about the organization. Each year in Honduras, SHH hosts a Leadership Week for
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Students
Helping Honduras builds schools following a three-way partnership model: SHH provides the construction supplies and professional labor, the families in the communities provide labor, and the local government provides heavy machinery, sand to mix cement, and the teachers. All supplies are
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In June 2019, a survey team from
Students Helping Honduras published a self-report summarizing their projects' impact on communities in Honduras. The survey team visited 46 communities in Northern Honduras and surveyed and interviewed 30 directors, 91 teachers, 114 parents, and 171 students. The
169:, aimed to assist victims of poverty and domestic violence. Witnessing the dire circumstances faced by the residents of Siete de Abril, particularly the children, inspired the Fujiyama siblings to establish SHH as a recognized student organization at their university the subsequent semester.
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Today, the organization hosts service trips throughout the year as part of its formal operations. Volunteers travel to
Honduras in groups to assist with construction, build relationships with the local residents, and witness the conditions in which they live. Some projects are:
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Following this initial success, Doris
Buffett proposed a second challenge: a matching grant of $ 100,000, contingent upon the students raising an equivalent amount by semester's end. This challenge led to the expansion of SHH's network, with the establishment of chapters at
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Train for Change is a program run by
Students Helping Honduras that empowers local Honduran teacher leaders through professional development to improve the quality of education for 1 million children in the most impoverished areas in the country.
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The Villa Soleada Bilingual School (VSBS) was built with the goal to change the graduation rate of Siete de Abril, now Villa Soleada, to "100% from 0%", in one generation. The VSBS High School was inaugurated in March 2020.
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The membership of SHH consists of more than seven thousand students and adults from different states. Chapters are typically located on college campuses (U.S.) and at high schools.
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The average number of classes cancelled due to rain or inadequate protection from weather dropped from 14 days per year to less than one day a year.
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97% of participants agreed that they were prouder of their school after the completion of the project.
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Soleada Bilingual School mentioned above, with others attending schools in El Progreso.
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Students Helping Honduras (SHH) started in 2004 when Cosmo and
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Non-profit organizations based in Fredericksburg, Virginia
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99% of students reported they like the new classrooms.
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127:shhkids.org
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590:2009-07-28
564:References
408:Penn State
595:UMW Today
39:Formation
204:Projects
181:and the
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105:Honduras
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157:History
123:Website
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