Amarateca Boystown Fourth Anniversary

Since then we have educated hundreds of the poorest boys in Honduras, teaching them vital skills in academic subjects and vocational skills to maximise their chances of finding a stable and well paid job in the local area.

Boys like Ilson and Kilber. When they were just three and four years old, their mother and father drowned, leaving the boys and their four month old sister alone. They were taken in by their elderly grandmother, but with little money she has struggled to provide for them. When the Sisters visited this remote hillside community last year they noticed the boys labouring on the hillside and picking coffee beans to earn enough to feed themselves. The boys took the Sisters back to their grandmother. The house was 30 minutes down a muddy path, on a steep mountainside, deep inside the coffee plantations.